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Studio Daniel Libeskind "Memory Foundations" Plan Selected for WTC Site  More information and images of the Studio Daniel Libeskind selection below. Plus Today's WTC Redevelopment News. |
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the morning of September 11, 2001 the New York City skyline changed
forever. We are left with only memories and images. In the spirit of remembrance and renewal, the site of the World Trade Center will be rebuilt. New skylines. New memories. New York. Following are the archives of the rebuilding at the WTC site. |
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of the World Trade Center Site Redevelopment Plans From the Nine December 2002 Proposals to the February 2003 Libeskind Selection |
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PLANS TIMELINE Nine World Trade Center Design Proposals from Seven Teams of Architects are Presented at the World Financial Center in New York City on December 18th, 2002. On February 4th, 2003 Studio Libeskind and Think are Announced as Finalists. Studio Daniel Libeskind Design Selected as the Winner on February 26th, 2003. |
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 December 19, 2002 New York Post "Rising from the ashes" |
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Propose to Build World's Tallest Skyscrapers Where World Trade Center Stood December 18, 2002 By Karen Mathews, Associated Press Writer |
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YORK - Nine competing designs for the World Trade Center site were
unveiled, with several of them boldly proposing that the city answer the Sept. 11 terrorist attack by erecting the tallest skyscrapers on Earth. Four of the plans for ground zero call for topping Malaysia's 1,483-foot (445-meter) Petronas Twin Towers. One envisions a 2,100-foot (630-meter) skyscraper, while another proposes a 1,776-foot (533-meter) tower topped with a spire. The World Trade Center's twin towers measured 1,350 feet (405 meters). "A skyscraper rises above its predecessors, restoring the spiritual peak of the city, creating an icon that speaks to our vitality in the face of danger and our optimism in the aftermath of tragedy," said Berlin-based architect Daniel Libeskind, who offered one such plan Wednesday. "Life victorious." The Lower Manhattan Development Corp., the agency created to oversee the rebuilding, and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns the land, are expected to choose one of the designs — or a combination of them — by Jan. 31. All of the designs call for a memorial to the 2,792 people who died in the attack. The ideas for a memorial include twin reflecting pools and a "Park of Heroes." A memorial design will be chosen separately, in an international contest next year. Gov. George Pataki praised the plans, saying they "really reflect what we want to show the world." However, victims' relatives said it was hard to imagine anyone wanting to work in skyscrapers there, or even look up at them. "Initially, I have to say it does bother me, but that's a reality that we'll have to come to grips with," said Bruce DeCell, whose son-in-law worked on the 92nd floor of the trade center's north tower. "Hopefully these towers will be built with the proper technology because of the skepticism that has emerged now about taller buildings." The plans for rebuilding the site and surrounding neighborhood came from seven teams of architects from Berlin, London, Amsterdam, Tokyo, New York and Los Angeles, and were selected from 407 submissions. A first set of plans released in July was derided as boring and overstuffed with office space. In the 15 months since the attack, many have debated whether the city should erect a skyscraper the same scale as the trade center. Some have warned that such a tower could be an inviting target to terrorists, and have questioned whether anyone would want to work in such a building. The proposals were required to include 6.5 million to 10 million square feet (585,000 to 900,000 square meters) of office space on the trade center site — plus a hotel and mall — and up to 3.5 million square feet (315,000 square meters) of commercial space at its perimeter. |
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Design Concepts from Seven Teams of International Architects World Trade Center Site New WTC Plans & Proposals December 2002 Photos © AP or Reuters & Design Architects |
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and Images of World Trade Center Site Designs, Plans, and Concepts Click on the design images for a larger view. |
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Studio Daniel Libeskind Studio Daniel Libeskind: Berlin-based architect, has designed the Jewish Museum in Berlin and an extension to the Denver Art Museum. The plan for World Trade Center area includes museum at the epicenter of ground zero, as well as two large public spaces called the "Park of Heroes" and the "Wedge of Light," which would be laid out in such a way that on the anniversary of the attack, the sun would shine down on them unblocked by anything. The plan also includes a 1,776-foot tower, the tallest building in the world. View Daniel Libeskind sketches of the proposed Wedge of Light and park area. (below) |
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Foster and Partners Foster and Partners: London-based firm, has designed the Swiss Re building in that city as well as the metro system in Bilbao, Spain. This plan calls for rebuilding of the street pattern that was taken away when the World Trade Center complex was built. Liberty Street would be reinvented as a vibrant street market. There would be a skyscraper, the tallest in the world. It would be "twinned," divided into two parts that "kiss" at three points to create public space and observation decks. View park sketches and an overhead plan of the Foster & Partners design. (below) |
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Richard Meier & Partners Architects Richard Meier & Partners Architects, Eisenman Architects, Gwathmey Siegel & Associates, Steven Holl Architects: A group of four New York-based architects. Their proposal calls for a plaza called Memorial Square, bordered on the north and east by glass buildings, that would be 1,111 feet high. Two glass reflecting pools would fill the footprints where the 1,350-foot twin towers used to stand. The design uses only 27 percent of the site for buildings, leaving the rest to be developed as public space. View the large open spaces of the Richard Meier & Partners design. (below) |
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Think Group Architects Think: This group of six architects produced three plans. The first calls for three office towers — one of them the world's tallest at 2,100 feet — around a 16-acre park set on the roof of a smaller building, with glass cylinders protecting the footprints of the original twin towers. The second comprises a vast glass-enclosed public plaza and a 2,100-foot tower. The third is marked by two open latticework structures that soar upward from a reflecting pool, resembling skeletons of the original towers. View the Think Group's Great Room concept and Sky Park plans. (below) |
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United Architects United Architects: Firm designed the Yokohama International Port Terminal. Its trade center design calls for five futuristic, connected buildings that would form "a veil" around a space containing a memorial. There would be arches at the points where the buildings connect. There would be a public skyway at the 800-feet level, with gardens and cafes. Observers would go below ground zero and look up into the sky as part of the memorial. View the Sky Memorial images from the United Architect's proposal. (below) |
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Peterson/Littenberg Architecture Peterson/Littenberg Architecture and Urban Design: This husband-and-wife team proposed ground-level gardens with boundaries that would be defined by the shape and the geometry of the footprints. There would be memorial sites within the gardens. The garden would contain an amphitheater on the north tower footprint with one seat for each victim who died in the attacks. View the pools and gardens of the Peterson/Littenberg proposal. (below) |
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Som/Sanaa (Sejima & Nishizawa) Som/Sanaa (Sejima & Nishizawa)/Inigo Manglano-Ovalle/Rita McBride/Field Operations/ Michael Maltzan Architecture/Tom Leader Studio/Jessica Stockholder/Elyn Zimmerman: This team of architects proposed plans that include constructing a horizontal platform elevated above the skyline that would create public spaces to be used for a host of facilities, including a skygarden. View images of the large public spaces and rooftop garden plans from Som/Sanaa. (below) |
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Tallest Towers Proposed for WTC Site Two finalists chosen; winner named late in month Reported by Phil Hirschkorn, CNN New York Bureau Tuesday, February 4, 2003 © CNN NEW YORK (CNN) -- Two architectural teams were named finalists Tuesday in the competition to design what will be built on the World Trade Center site, each proposing plans that would create the tallest structures in the world, easily dwarfing the twin towers destroyed in the September 11 terrorist attacks. Studio Daniel Libeskind of Berlin, Germany, and a New York-led team dubbed THINK were named finalists by the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. THE LMDC, a city-state agency overseeing the rebuilding process, chose them from among seven contenders. Both plans feature structures that would reach 300 feet or more higher than the World Trade Center's 110-story twin towers, and surpass the tallest buildings in the world, the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. They would create signature structures where the twin towers had dominated the landscape of Lower Manhattan. The developer holding the lease at the Trade Center when it was attacked has said he is opposed to erecting such tall structures, telling officials that "super-tall office buildings" are no longer practical. A committee -- including representatives of the LMDC, the site's owner, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the office of Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and Gov. George Pataki -- chose the finalists. It is expected to settle on a single land-use plan by the end of the month. Daniel Libeskind's team and the THINK team, led by Fred Schwartz and Rafael Vinoly, were among the seven groups that offered elaborate plans for the 16-acre site and its immediate surroundings in mid-December. "In the aftermath of these tragedies, there is optimism," said Libeskind, a Polish-born American and the son of Holocaust survivors. "We remember every day what we lost so we can envision something great for the future," said Schwartz, a New Yorker whose office has a view of Ground Zero. Both plans received popular acclaim in the thousands of comments submitted at a public exhibition of the architects' models and to the LMDC's Web site. People especially praised their skyline-restoring components, noting that each plan would establish soaring structures in the spot where the 1,360-foot towers stood. The centerpiece of Libeskind's proposal is a 1,776-foot-tall, spindle-shaped tower that would be filled above the 70th floor with indoor gardens. Libeskind would leave portions of the 70-foot-deep Ground Zero pit open, exposing the concrete foundation walls that survived the towers' collapse. He sets aside five parcels for 7.5 million square feet in office space. THINK proposes a pair of 1,665-foot open latticework towers, reminiscent of the Eiffel Tower, rising from the footprints of the twin towers and housing cultural facilities. The towers would contain viewing platforms near the top and project beams of lights into the sky at night. The team proposes eight mid-sized office buildings around the towers, none higher than 59 floors, with a total of 8.5 million square feet of office space. Each finalist also allocates space for a memorial, a major new train station, shopping areas, a hotel and parks. Both plans go back on public display in the atrium of the World Financial Center, adjacent to Ground Zero. |
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The Libeskind plan includes a 1,776 foot (541m) spire with gardens above the 70th floor, and leaves a section of the World Trade Center foundation exposed as part of a memorial. The design has 7.5 million square feet of office space. |
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WTC Plan is Taller Than Twin Towers Reported by Associated Press, February 26th, 2003 © AP NEW YORK (AP) -- A complex of angular buildings and a 1,776-foot spire designed by architect Daniel Libeskind was chosen as the plan for the World Trade Center site on Wednesday, The Associated Press has learned. Libeskind's design beat the THINK team's "World Cultural Center" plan, which envisioned two 1,665-foot latticework towers straddling the footprints of the original towers. The new building is planned to be taller than the trade center towers, which briefly stood as the world's tallest at 1,350 feet. Libeskind's tower also would surpass Malaysia's 1,483-foot Petronas Twin Towers, the tallest buildings in the world. The choice was made by a committee with representatives of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the governor and the mayor. The committee met briefly on Wednesday afternoon and decided on the plan that was favored by Gov. George Pataki and Mayor Michael Bloomberg, according to a source close to the process. LMDC Chairman John Whitehead telephoned Libeskind with the news, the source said, telling the architect that his "vision has brought hope and inspiration to a city still recovering from a terrible tragedy." Libeskind told the chairman that being selected is "a life-changing experience," the source said. Nine proposals for redeveloping the trade center site, where nearly 2,800 people died September 11, 2001, were unveiled December 18. The design competition was launched after an initial set of plans, released in July, was derided as boring and overstuffed with office space. Redevelopment officials were scheduled to announce the decision publicly Thursday. After the two plans were chosen as finalists earlier this month, both teams of architects were asked to revise their designs to make them more easily realized. Libeskind, whose original design called for a memorial at the trade center foundation 70-feet below ground, reportedly changed that to 30 feet, allowing for infrastructure and transportation underneath. The LMDC was created by Pataki and former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani after September 11 to oversee the rebuilding of the trade center site and downtown Manhattan. The Port Authority owns the site. |
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Conference to Officially Announce Studio Daniel Libeskind Design Selection Announced at the Winter Gardens across from the WTC Site on February 27th, 2003 |
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Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) - December 2002 Overview
World Trade Center Site - Remember Rebuild Renew LMDC and the Port Authority have identified priorities for the future of the World Trade Center site by conducting the most comprehensive public outreach campaign ever undertaken. The release of six initial site plans in July 2002 sparked an energetic debate about the future of the World Trade Center site and the creation of a memorial. Thousands of people took part in an unprecedented modern town hall forum in mid-summer. Thousands more registered their opinions through traditional public hearings in each borough and New Jersey, an exhibit at Federal Hall, LMDC's website, and regular mail. In response to one recurring public suggestion -- the desire for additional creative and inspiring plans -- LMDC announced a new, intensive eight-week Innovative Design Study for the World Trade Center site in August 2002 and initiated a global search for design and planning professionals. LMDC received 406 submissions from every continent except Antarctica. Seven teams comprised of some of the world's best and brightest architects, planners and designers were selected and charged with proposing their own creative plans for the site. Collectively, the new design concepts broaden our understanding of the possibilities for the World Trade Center site and powerfully demonstrate that Lower Manhattan has a brighter future on the horizon. Now the challenge is to arrive at a single 'master plan' by February -- and LMDC is once again calling on the public to participate. LMDC and the Port Authority are evaluating each design concept based on a set of technical criteria, such as engineering considerations and cost, and qualitative factors, such as context for the memorial and public spaces. This analysis will shape the proposed final master plan. At the same time, the LMDC is conducting a comprehensive outreach program to solicit public comments on the new design concepts. |
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Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) - February 4th, 2003 Update Designs by THINK and Studio Libeskind to Be Considered for World Trade Center Site The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation and Port Authority announced that two designs for the World Trade Center site are now under consideration – a design by Studio Libeskind and a design called World Cultural Center, developed by THINK. Nine designs were released on December 18, 2002 and subjected to rigorous technical analysis and public comment during LMDC’s unprecedented outreach campaign, "Plans in Progress." Two designs were identified to undergo further analysis based on a combination of factors that included feasibility, context for the memorial, phasing and public comment. A single plan for the site will be announced by the end of February, followed by more public comment and refinement. |
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Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) - February 26th, 2003 Update
Studio Daniel Libeskind: Memory Foundations Selected as Design Concept for World Trade Center Site New York Governor George E. Pataki and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg today joined the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation and Port Authority of New York & New Jersey to announce the selection of Memory Foundations as the design concept for the World Trade Center site. The inspirational design by Studio Daniel Libeskind leaves portions of the slurry wall exposed as a symbol of the strength and endurance of American democracy, while reserving a majestic setting for the memorial and museum in the area known as the bathtub. A 1,776 feet tall spire creates a powerful new skyline for Lower Manhattan, while the bustling activity down below reaffirms life in the aftermath of tragedy. |
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