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Today, New Yorkers awoke to déjà vu. This crisp September morning, with fiercely white sunshine piercing a cloudless sky, was almost exactly like the day that greeted New Yorkers on September 11, 2001. While the similarity is uncanny, the platitudes are correct that the world is forever changed.
Words fail to fully communicate the experience of the terrorist attacks, and their transformative effect on society, politics, and the economy. Can the architecture that will replace and memorialize the Twin Towers fill the gaps?
We are getting closer to an answer. Despite the many conflicts about which commentators had forewarned us early on, Ground Zero's rebirth inches toward reality. In the few weeks leading up to this fifth anniversary, news of progress has appeared with increasing frequency. Power switched hands, designs were revealed, steel was shipped. Ground Zero promises to be home to works by the generation's most famous architects. That fact alone guarantees neither universal praise nor timelessness. But its completion will open a new chapter in which the public demands innovation and excellence throughout the built landscape, not just in rebuilding what's lost. |
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| 10/16/06 Exhibition Explores Phenomenon of Grassroots 9/11 Memorials |
| 09/11/06 Freedom Tower Gets Start in a Luxembourg Plant |
| 09/08/06 Three More WTC Towers Unveiled |
| 09/06/06 Exhibition Celebrates Twin Towers |
| 08/31/06 Interviews Drive Ongoing WTC Evacuation Study |
| 08/30/06 Memorial Architects Say Work is Moving Quickly |
| 08/28/06 U.S. Federal Building Architect Carol Ross Barney Comments on WTC Rebuilding Process |
| 08/22/06 Port Authority Assumes Control of WTC Memorial |
| 08/10/06 Dispatch from Ground Zero |
| 07/27/06 Structural Transition at Ground Zero |
| 06/29/06 Childs Unveils Final Design for Freedom Tower |
| 06/21/06 WTC Memorial Design Likely To Be Revised |
| 05/22/06 Silverstein Says Insurance Payments at Ground Zero Could Be Threatened |
| 05/17/06 Major Step at Ground Zero: 7 World Trade Center Opening |
| 05/05/06 WTC Memorial Cost Estimated Close to $1 Billion |
| 05/04/06 WTC Design Guidelines May Finally Move Forward |
| 05/03/06 Rogers, Maki added to Ground Zero Team |
| 04/26/06 Silverstein Accepts Deal on Ground Zero |
| 03/22/06
Ground Zero Development Stalled by Lease Issues |
| 03/03/06
As Construction Nears, Protest Grows Over World Trade Center Memorial |
| 02/07/06
Ground Zero Update: Snøhetta Building Shrinks, 7 WTC Gets Tenants |
| 09/29/05
International Freedom Center Out at Ground Zero |
| 09/12/05
Strategy for Seven World Trade Center Exceeds Expectations |
| 08/16/05
Architect's Lawsuit over Freedom Tower Moves Forward |
| 08/16/05
Freedom Center, Drawing Center in Jeopardy at Ground Zero |
| 08/12/05
Goldman Sachs to Build Headquarters at Ground Zero After All |
| 07/28/05
Calatrava Unveils New Safety Features for World Trade Center Transit
Hub |
| 07/20/05
Contest Seeks World Trade Center Designs Based on Twin Towers |
| 06/29/05
Redesigned Freedom Tower Will Be Sleeker, Safer |
| 06/28/05
Peter Walker Accepts Second Ground Zero Commission |
| 06/24/05
Responses Begin to Federal World Trade Center Report Recommendations |
| 05/24/05
Design for Snøhetta's World Trade Center Cultural Center Unveiled |
| 12/20/04 Updated
Schematics Unveiled For World Trade Center Memorial |
| 12/08/04 Silverstein
Wins Latest World Trade Center Insurance Payment Case |
| 12/01/04 Board
of Directors Named for World Trade Center Memorial Foundation |
| 11/11/04 Architect
Sues David Childs and SOM Over Freedom Tower Design |
| 11/05/04 A
Look Back: 7 World Trade Center Tops Out |
| 10/22/04 Interim
Results of World Trade Center Investigation "Exonerates"
Twin Towers' Design in Sept. 11, 2001 Collapse |
| 07/14/04 Libeskind
Sues Silverstein over Payments at Ground Zero |
| 05/05/04 Court
Decision Leaves Developer Less Insurance Money At Ground Zero |
| 04/08/04 Advisory
Committee Named to Oversee Development of World Trade Center Memorial
Center |
| 04/01/04 Daniel
Libeskind Discussses The State of his World Trade Center Master Plan |
| 03/10/04 Team
Designing and Promoting New Design For World Trade Center |
| 03/02/04 An
Interview With WTC Memorial Designer Michael Arad |
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Official Stage II Proposals
released December 18th, 2002.
Official Stage I Proposals
by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and the Lower Manhattan
Development Corporation.
A New WTC: Design Proposals at
the Max Protetch Gallery in NYC.
Unofficial Design Proposals:
• Designs
by architects and related professionals
• Designs
by students |
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RECORD hosts panel discussion on the latest
round of WTC site proposals. Video
clips can now be viewed online.
A
gathering for Ground Zero: Photos from the event. |
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Architectural Record's 1964 report
on the final design of the World Trade Center Architectural
Record, February 1964 (PDF: 2 pages/172
k)*
Architectural Record's 1977
design story praising Windows on the World, the north tower's luxury
restaurant Architectural Record, May 1977
(PDF: 9 pages/780 k)*
A Review of 'Divided We Stand:
A Biography of New York's World Trade Center' Architecturalrecord.com,
February 2001
*You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader
to view PDF files which can be downloaded for free here.
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