The Port Authority and Larry Silverstein announced that they finalized April’s shuffle at Ground Zero which puts the Freedom Tower moves into government hands. Sort of final that is, but the number of loose ends ($1 billion in missing insurance money and whatever the lawyers find in actually doing the documents) is getting smaller.
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People (perhaps even we did at one time in our lives) like to point out how much Daniel Libeskind’s site plan has been abandoned, but today’s unveiling of the next three towers at Ground Zero shows there’s a lot of Danny left. Compare this after-dark rendering:
(Credit: Silverstein Properties and dbox)
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No more World Trade Center: It’s Greenwich Street from now on. (Credit: Silverstein Properties and dbox)
From left, the Freedom Tower (David Childs) as we know and love it; and designs unveiled today for 200 Greenwich Street (or Tower 2, by Sir Norman Foster), 175 Greenwich Street (or Tower 3, by Sir Richard Rogers), Read More
Ground Zero is set to become a Hall of Fame for the all-stars of contemporary architecture now that developer Larry Silverstein has named three of the world’s most celebrated architects to design massive towers to line the perimeter of the site. London-based Lord Norman Foster, of Foster and Partners; Tokyo-based Fumihiko Maki, of Maki and Read More
Affordable Housing or Lack Thereof
