Architect and Developer Clash Over Plans for Trade Center Site | NY Times

[Ediacara]

Architect and Developer Clash Over Plans for Trade Center Site
By EDWARD WYATT


With pressure increasing to begin the rebuilding at ground zero, the architect with the winning design for the World Trade Center site plans to meet today with representatives of the developer to try to resolve clashing visions of what will be built.

The meeting between the architect, Daniel Libeskind, and senior aides to the developer, Larry A. Silverstein, is the latest attempt by rebuilding officials to force an agreement over the future of the site and the degree of Mr. Libeskind's influence in the design and placement of the commercial office buildings there.

Mr. Libeskind claims a public mandate on the project's future after his design was chosen over eight other proposals in a competition of renowned architects. His vision is of a spiral of five towers including one 1,776-foot spire surrounding a hallowed, empty ground on the site where the twin towers once stood.

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[CALRAIDER]

1. JESUS!

Why are they still talking about building something on that site. It is sick. Just leave it alone and make it a Memorial. Gettysburg, Pearl Harbor, Even the Field in Shanksville where FLight 93 crashed remain hallowed not some monument to capitalism.

[Kellanved]

2. Liebeskind got ousted

His Plans for the Freedom Tower are not considered cost effective.
His rival David Childs got the lead role ; Talk here is, that Liebeskind will move back to Berlin.


http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=Attacks%20Redevelopment

[havocmom]

3. more bickering about redevelopement of the WTC site

tends to make me more a believer of LIHOP or MIHOP. There is just too much glee at the prospect of redeveloping a prime site into even higher rent space.

@*$&#@)@) greedy bastards