Thinking Big: New WTC Designs Are Inspiring, Audacious

The new design proposals for rebuilding Ground Zero are exciting, contentious, dynamic, imaginative, inspiring, and audacious.

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December 20, 2002, 11:00 AM PST

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"The architecture and planning ideas put forward by most of the teams were definitively exciting. It was a day in which contentious, dynamic, imaginative and, yes, inspiring avant-garde architecture celebrated itself and -- maybe -- predicted a hopeful new future for downtown New York.Yet what these proposals have to do with reality, with what actually will get built and when, remains to be seen."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

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