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Team Of All-Star Architects Reimagines New York

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Abhijeet Chavan
9 September 2002 - 7:00am

Richard Meier, Steven Holl, Peter Eisenman, Charles Gwathmey, Guy Nordenson, Maya Lin, and others, dissatisfied with the official planning process to rebuild the site of the World Trade Center, form a design team to reimagine Lower Manhattan. [Includes in

"In June, a group of New York architects met to discuss their dissatisfaction with the planning process unfolding under the auspices of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation...The group included Richard Meier, Steven Holl, Peter Eisenman, Charles Gwathmey and Guy Nordenson, a structural engineer.It had become clear to this group that the official planning process was...broken. The pattern, a privatized version of city planning, routinely excludes architecture from the formative stages... [The group] decided to look beyond ground zero and reimagine a scheme for the entirety of Lower Manhattan. "

Full Story: Don't Rebuild. Reimagine.
Source: The New York Times, September 8, 2002
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