WTC As World Cultural Center?

The Village Voice asks if the new WTC design could become a new world cultural center.

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December 31, 2002, 9:00 AM PST

"When architect Rafael Viñoly unveiled this proposal for a World Cultural Center to replace the World Trade Center, he called it "a little bit extreme." On closer inspection, however, this plan developed by the THINK team (Shigeru Ban, Frederic Schwartz, Ken Smith, and Viñoly) opens new possibilities even as it opens the sky. Among the nine new designs broached for ground zero, this was the only one not focused on office space. This at a time when the city already has millions of square feet of unused office space, when a proposed World Trade Center has no potential tenant, and no one knows whether a single corporation will venture back to that site to move into a skyscraper.'"

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Monday, December 30, 2002 in The Village Voice

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