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September, 2004
Reaction to the selected World Trade Center schemes has been mixed among architects, over 30 of whom were informally surveyed by Architectural Record. Comments reveal the projects’ strengths and potential gaps, and reflect more than anything a desire to seek fresher, more emotionally relevant, and more unified ideas for Lower Manhattan.
Most respondents seemed annoyed that their colleague Daniel Libeskind, who won the LMDC’s “Innovative Design Study for the Master Plan” in February 2003, appears to have been excluded from much of the subsequent design process. “The competition winning scheme was not respected,” notes New York architect Steven Holl, whose team’s scheme for the Trade Center was one of the finalists in the design study competition. “What has occurred is the result of a faulty competition, further compromised by the developers’ maneuvers.” New York–based Henry Smith-Miller adds, “Libeskind’s provocative vision seems to have faded.”
– Sam Lubell
Click on the architects listed below to read their reactions.
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