The designs make clear that the 'money men'-- and not the designers -- are in charge.
"Four of them should be scrapped, so clumsily do they address the fundamental challenge of the site: How to create a living city that still pays tribute to the dead.The other two are better, yet they remain far from the level of sophistication needed to shape the most important redevelopment project in recent American history... But it surely makes no economic sense to build 11 million square feet of office space in lower Manhattan, the same amount the twin towers contained, when the area already has several Empire State Buildings worth of vacancies.It doesn't make urban planning sense, either."
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