The owner of the World Trade Centers has brought several prestigious architects and developers on board to discuss redevelopment.
"Larry Silverstein has 'brought on board' prestigious architects David Childs of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and Alexander Cooper of Cooper Robertson Architects to help him plan the rebuilding of the World Trade Center... Cooper co-wrote the master plan for Battery Park City, the mixed-use waterfront community that includes the Financial Center. Childs' recent works include the AOL Time Warner Center, the 2.7 million-square-foot mixed-use complex under construction on the former New York Coliseum site at Columbus Circle, and Bear Stearns & Co.'s new midtown headquarters, nearly completed. Silverstein also indicated that there would also be a 'world competition among world-class architects' as part of the redesign process."
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