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GlobeSt.com UPDATE: Architects Unveil Nine Proposals for the new WTC

NEW YORK CITY-During a three-hour event held Downtown in the Winter Garden yesterday, seven teams of architects and designers debuted their much-anticipated proposals for redeveloping the 16-acre site that formerly housed the World Trade Center.

By Diana M. Rodriguez | Updated on December 18, 2002

NEW YORK CITY-More than 15 months after the destruction of the World Trade Center, the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. released the proposals created by its chosen seven teams of architects and designers tasked with redesigning the now barren 16-acre site. Featuring environmentally friendly facilities, inter-connected towers, and buildings soaring even higher than its predecessors, the new batch of site plans offers nine unique, modern designs. The final plan for the new WTC, which could ultimately include components pulled from each of the proposals, is expected to be chosen by the end of January. (GlobeSt.com began its coverage from the site yesterday morning.)

John Whitehead, chairman of the LMDC, kicked off yesterday morning’s presentation at the Winter Garden by noting that the design teams were each tasked with answering a single question: What does Sept. 11 represent?

“The responses varied, just as our reactions to Sept. 11 were personal and different,” Whitehead said, noting some of the plans “call for buildings to rise high in the sky” in a Phoenix-like symbol of rebirth, while other chose plants, shapes, and water to convey that same feeling.

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