Gaudi And The City

A building design by Antoni Gaudi, conceived in 1908, is to be entered in the WTC site competition.

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January 21, 2003, 2:00 PM PST

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

"A group of Catalan artists and an American architect intend to enter the never-realized Gaudí plan in the formal ground zero memorial design competition of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, scheduled to begin this spring...For some of them make the extraordinary claim that the hotel was intended not only to be built in Manhattan early in the last century, but specifically at the very site where the World Trade Center was eventually built a half-century later."

Thanks to Wes Larmore

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