WTC Designs: What Were They Thinking?
20 December 2002 - 12:00pm
From a commercial standpoint, the WTC proposals look doomed. The public has been hoodwinked.
" But none even tries to accommodate itself to the classic lower Manhattan skyline.The new designs coldly ignore the lessons of what was wrong with the World Trade Center - the anti-urban placement of immensely tall structures in or on the edge of a vast plaza, guaranteeing inhumane scale and hostile wind currents.The problem is, there is no way to combine even half the lost office space with a vast memorial park without basically bringing back the old WTC "towers in the park" setup."
Full Story:
Towering Struggle
Source:
New York Post, December 20, 2002
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