The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) presented Snøhetta's schematic designs for the cultural center to be built at the World Trade Center site today at an 11 a.m. press conference at downtown's Museum of Jewish Heritage. Full details of the announcement will appear on LowerManhattan.info later today. Until then, check out the images and renderings here.
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expanded coverage from Justin Davidson here and more on this from AP.
the site, to me seems to be a little crowded. it's like an architectural graveyard for monumental buildings. the path station, the freedom tower, the freedom museum, the memorial, what's next?
I think you're onto something there John... The issue is that they could have planned the whole place with more patience and like Ouroussoff suggested, bring all the designers to a meeting together. Now Calatrava's thing wants to be the damn "free bird" and it's boxed in.
free sallie! I think the whole site is congested, personally I wish they would go back to Fosters master plan which pretty much left it open. But now the whole thing reminds me of a modern re-versioning of that painting called the Architect's wet Dream or whatever.
And ironically, Foster had twin towers also.
I thought of fosters master plan as sort of a wrightian mile high skyscraper idea meets a hyper urban context....
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