Panel To Pick From 300 Downtown Rebuilding Concepts

A panel of six will review applications for rebuilding Lower Manhattan received from 300 architecture and planning firms from all continents except Antarctica.

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September 18, 2002, 8:00 AM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

ore than 300 architecture and planning firms, including those of the notable architects Philip Johnson and Robert A. M. Stern, have answered the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation's call for more innovative concepts for the World Trade Center site...The 300 submissions are from firms on every continent except Antarctica." The panel of judges comprises Toshiko Mori (Harvard Graduate School of Design); Eugenie L. Birch, (University of Pennsylvania); Richard N. Swett, an architect, Kinshasha Holman Conwill, an arts and management consultant; Terence Riley, (Museum of Modern Art); and Michael Van Valkenburgh (Harvard Graduate School of Design).

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

Read the full story: 300 Firms Competing to Help Remake Downtown

Wednesday, September 18, 2002 in The New York Times

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