WTC Developer And Architect Clash, Make A Deal
Developer of the World Trade Center site will get a say in Libeskind's design for a tower at Ground Zero.
"Mr. Libeskind, who devised the master plan for the site but whose buildings Mr. Silverstein ridiculed as creating acres of unusable floor space, will serve as a collaborating architect during initial design a role that one rebuilding officials said essentially gave him 49 percent of the votes in any decision."
Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan
Published on Thursday, July 17, 2003 in
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