Today seven teams of architects -- including some of the world's most famous -- will present their ideas on how to rebuild the WTC site.
"Gathered in a mammoth room across from the empty 16 acres where the World Trade Center's twin towers once stood, seven teams that include some of the world's most celebrated architects will unveil their ideas on how to repair the physical scar. The audience will include more than 200 reporters. The four- hour presentation will be televised live in New York.If the images capture people's imagination, they'll bring needed energy to the stumbling efforts to resurrect lower Manhattan. They'll revive something else -- the notion that architects have a central role to play in the debate over how America should grow."
Thanks to Chris Steins
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