The six teams include a total of 27 different firms, individualarchitects and artists whose portfolios include projects such as the Getty Center in Los Angeles; the Jewish Museum in Berlin; the MorganStanley World Headquarters in New York; the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki; MoMa Queens in Long Island City; and the Yokohama International Port Terminal in Japan.

"These architects and planners represent some of the best andbrightest minds in the world - and New York deserves nothing less," Pataki said. "The rebuilding of the World Trade Center site is one of themost important projects ever undertaken in our nation's history. Whathappened on Sept. 11th affected not only the United States, but theentire world and all those who cherish freedom. It's appropriate andinspiring that architects and planners from many different countries are now coming to together to help rebuild New York City."

The finalists include:

• Studio Daniel Libeskind, Berlin, Germany
  
• Foster and Partners, London, England
  
• Richard Meier, Peter Eisenman, Charles Gwathmey, and Steven Holl
  
• United Architects--Reiser Umemoto (New York); Foreign Office Architects (London, England); Greg Lynn FORM (Los Angeles); Imaginary Forces (New York and Los Angeles); Kevin Kenon Architect (New York); UN Studio(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
  
• Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
  
• Think--Shigeru Ban (Tokyo), Frederic Schwartz (New York), Ken Smith (New York), Rafael Vinoly (New York) with Arup, Buro Happold Engineers (Bath, England), Jorg Schlaich (Stuttgart, Germany), William Moorish (Charlottesville, VA), David Rockwell (New York), Jane Marie Smith (Baltimore, MD)

New York New Visions, a coalition of 21 architecture, engineering, planning,landscape architecture and design organizations, recommended a distinguishedgroup of six panelists to winnow down the 407 submissions to a group offinalists. The panelists included Toshiko Mori, Chair of the Department ofArchitecture, Harvard Design School; Eugenie L. Birch, Professor and Chairof the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University ofPennsylvania; Richard N. Swett, former U.S. Ambassador to Denmark and theonly licensed architect to serve in the US Congress in the 20th Century;Kinshasha Holman Conwill, an arts and management consultant and DirectorEmeritus of the Studio Museum of Harlem; Terence Riley, Chief Curator of theDepartment of Architecture and Design, Museum of Modern Art; Michael VanValkenburgh, landscape architect and principal of Van ValkenburghAssociates.