WTC: The Best Three Designs
31 December 2002 - 11:00am
Mark C. Taylor selects the best designs from the seven proposals for Ground Zero.
"Of the seven proposals for the World Trade Center site, three stand out for their conceptual sophistication, aesthetic subtlety and social sensitivity: Studio Daniel Libeskind; the New York team of Richard Meier, Peter Eisenman, Charles Gwathmey and Steven Holl; and United Architects. Differing in important ways, these three designs do share conceptual concerns. Each proposal represents a distinctive meditation on the intellectual and emotional polarities that the disaster challenges us to mediate: surface/depth, light/darkness, presence/absence, form/void, difference/unity, profane /sacred and loss/recovery."
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Source:
The New York Times, December 30, 2002
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