Plan For WTC Site Selected

Daniel Libeskind's designs for the WTC are selected. The new design will be taller than the Twin Towers.

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February 26, 2003, 5:00 PM PST

"Libeskind's design beat the THINK team's "World Cultural Center" plan, which envisioned two 1,665-foot latticework towers straddling the footprints of the original towers... The new building is planned to be taller than the trade center towers, which briefly stood as the world's tallest at 1,350 feet. Libeskind's tower also would surpass Malaysia's 1,483-foot Petronas Twin Towers, the tallest buildings in the world."

Thanks to Chris Steins

FULL STORY: New WTC plan is taller than twin towers

Wednesday, February 26, 2003 in CNN

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