WTC Re-design Needs Bold Strokes, Not Banality

Paul Goldberger questions the rationales behind the proposed WTC re-designs unveiled last week.

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July 30, 2002, 5:00 AM PDT

"[T]hey all start with the idea of building a cluster of medium-sized skyscrapers that, as the Port Authority required, would replace all the office space that was destroyed -- eleven million square feet of it, as much as there is in downtown St. Louis. . . . That would be fine if lower Manhattan were Tyson's Corners, or the Houston Galleria, or one of those pseudo-cities that dot the American landscape. But it wasn't like those places before September 11th, and it is even less like them now."

Thanks to Daniel Serda

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Monday, July 29, 2002 in The New Yorker

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