WTC: Are The New Designs Practical?

The new design proposals developed by prominent architects and artists are bold but are they practical? In a city hit hard by terrorism, are these designs safe?

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December 20, 2002, 9:00 AM PST

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

"One in every four floors of commercial space in downtown Manhattan sits vacant. 'They're acting as if rebuilding office space is central to New York's recovery, and that's not true,' said Mitchell Moss of the Taub Urban Research Center at New York University. "These plans will not get built in your lifetime... Peter Eisenman, whose firm presented a picket fencelike series of thin towers rising from a thick forested park, took a different view. He said his firm presented a 'more realistic' and less expensive version in hopes of winning the competition.He gave voice to a question that many in the audience asked one another: Were these grandiose office towers safe and practical in this terrorist-chastened city?"

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

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