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WTC New Design Archives - Studio Daniel Libeskind concept and design is selected to build a new Memory Foundations plan at the WTC site. Studio Daniel Libeskind
"Memory Foundations"
Plan Selected for WTC Site
WTC New Design Archives - Studio Daniel Libeskind concept and design is selected to build a new Memory Foundations plan at the WTC site.
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WTC New Design Archives - Studio Daniel Libeskind concept and design is selected to build a new Memory Foundations plan at the WTC site.
NY Daily News
Feb. 27, 2003
WTC New Design Archives - Studio Daniel Libeskind concept and design is selected to build a new Memory Foundations plan at the WTC site.
On September 11, 2001 the New York city skyline changed forever. The WTC site will be rebuilt to remember and renew. Studio Daniel Libeskind design is selected. On September 11, 2001 the New York city skyline changed forever. The WTC site will be rebuilt to remember and renew. Studio Daniel Libeskind design is selected. On September 11, 2001 the New York city skyline changed forever. The WTC site will be rebuilt to remember and renew. Studio Daniel Libeskind design is selected. On September 11, 2001 the New York city skyline changed forever. The WTC site will be rebuilt to remember and renew. Studio Daniel Libeskind design is selected. On September 11, 2001 the New York city skyline changed forever. The WTC site will be rebuilt to remember and renew. Studio Daniel Libeskind design is selected.
On 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.
Archives of the World Trade Center Site Redevelopment Plans
From the Nine December 2002 Proposals to the February 2003 Libeskind Selection
September11News.com - New WTC Plans & Proposals - Archives of the World Trade Center Site Development Concepts and Designs. Seven teams of architects from around the world present nine unique plans and designs for the former site of the World Trade Center. September11News.com - New WTC Plans & Proposals - Archives of the World Trade Center Site Development Concepts and Designs. Seven teams of architects from around the world present nine unique plans and designs for the former site of the World Trade Center. September11News.com - New WTC Plans & Proposals - Archives of the World Trade Center Site Development Concepts and Designs. Seven teams of architects from around the world present nine unique plans and designs for the former site of the World Trade Center. September11News.com - New WTC Plans & Proposals - Archives of the World Trade Center Site Development Concepts and Designs. Seven teams of architects from around the world present nine unique plans and designs for the former site of the World Trade Center. September11News.com - new WTC Plans & Proposals - Archives of the World Trade Center Site Development Concepts and Designs. Seven teams of architects from around the world present nine unique plans and designs for the former site of the World Trade Center. September11News.com - New WTC Plans & Proposals - Archives of the World Trade Center Site Development Concepts and Designs. Seven teams of architects from around the world present nine unique plans and designs for the former site of the World Trade Center. September11News.com - New WTC Plans & Proposals - Archives of the World Trade Center Site Development Concepts and Designs. Seven teams of architects from around the world present nine unique plans and designs for the former site of the World Trade Center.
WTC 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.
New WTC Plans & Proposals - Richard Meier & Partners Architects, et al, design for New York's World Trade Center site. Click here for a large WTC site design image.
Design Skyline
Richard Meier & Partners
World Trade Center Site
Design Concepts Unveiled

New WTC Plans & Proposals
New York City
December 18, 2002

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Som/Sanaa
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New York Post Front Page - Nine World Trade Center site designs are presented by seven teams of architects at New York City's World Financial Center on December 18, 2002.

December 19, 2002
New York Post
"Rising from the ashes"
Nine World Trade Center site designs are presented by seven teams of architects at New York City's World Financial Center on December 18, 2002.
December 18, 2002
Architects Present
WTC Site Designs
The New York Times Front Page - Nine World Trade Center site designs are presented by seven teams of architects at New York City's World Financial Center on December 18, 2002.

December 19, 2002
New York Times
Nine World Trade Center site designs are presented by seven teams of architects at New York City's World Financial Center on December 18, 2002.
December 18, 2002
WTC Design Models
New York Daily News Front Page - Nine World Trade Center site designs are presented by seven teams of architects at New York City's World Financial Center on December 18, 2002.

December 19, 2002
New York Daily News
"Brave New World"
Nine World Trade Center site designs are presented by seven teams of architects at New York City's World Financial Center on December 18, 2002.
December 18, 2002
WTC Designs Presented
New WTC Plans & Proposals - Nine World Trade Center site designs are presented by seven teams of architects at New York City's World Financial Center on December 18, 2002.  Click here for a large WTC site design image.

Design Skyline
Daniel Libeskind
Architects Propose to Build World's
Tallest Skyscrapers Where
World Trade Center Stood

December 18, 2002
By Karen Mathews, Associated Press Writer
New WTC Plans & Proposals - Nine World Trade Center site designs are presented by seven teams of architects at New York City's World Financial Center on December 18, 2002. Click here for a large WTC site design image.

Design Skyline
Foster & Partners
NEW 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.
New WTC Plans & Proposals - United Architects design for New York's World Trade Center site. Click here for a large WTC site design image.
United Architects
Design Model Image
Nine Design Concepts from
Seven Teams of
International Architects

World Trade Center Site
New WTC Plans & Proposals
December 2002

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Daniel Libeskind
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Studio Daniel Libeskind

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)

New WTC Plans & Proposals - Studio Daniel Libeskind design for New York's World Trade Center site. Click here for a large WTC site design image.
Studio Daniel Libeskind
New WTC Plans & Proposals - Studio Daniel Libeskind design for New York's World Trade Center site. Click here for a large WTC site design image.
Studio Daniel Libeskind
New WTC Plans & Proposals - Foster and Partners design for New York's World Trade Center site. Click here for a large WTC site design image.
Foster & Partners

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)

New WTC Plans & Proposals - Foster & Partners design for New York's World Trade Center site. Click here for a large WTC site design image.
Foster & Partners
New WTC Plans & Proposals - Foster and Partners design for New York's World Trade Center site. Click here for a large WTC site design image.
Foster & Partners
New WTC Plans & Proposals - Foster & Partners design for New York's World Trade Center site. Click here for a large WTC site design image.
Foster & Partners
New WTC Plans & Proposals - Richard Meier & Partners Architects, et al, design for New York's World Trade Center site. Click here for a large WTC site design image.
Richard Meier & Partners

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)

New WTC Plans & Proposals - Richard Meier & Partners Architects, et al, design for New York's World Trade Center site. Click here for a large WTC site design image.
Richard Meier & Partners
New WTC Plans & Proposals - Richard Meier & Partners Architects, et al, design for New York's World Trade Center site. Click here for a large WTC site design image.
Richard Meier & Partners
New WTC Plans & Proposals - Richard Meier & Partners Architects, et al, design for New York's World Trade Center site. Click here for a large WTC site design image.
Richard Meier & Partners
New WTC Plans & Proposals - Richard Meier & Partners Architects, et al, design for New York's World Trade Center site. Click here for a large WTC site design image.
Richard Meier & Partners
New WTC Plans & Proposals - Think Group design for New York's World Trade Center site. Click here for a large WTC site design image.
Think Group Architects

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)

New WTC Plans & Proposals - Think Group design for New York's World Trade Center site. Click here for a large WTC site design image.
Think Group Architects
New WTC Plans & Proposals - Think Group design for New York's World Trade Center site. Click here for a large WTC site design image.
Think Group Architects
New WTC Plans & Proposals - Think Group design for New York's World Trade Center site. Click here for a large WTC site design image.
Think Group Architects
New WTC Plans & Proposals - United Architects design for New York's World Trade Center site. Click here for a large WTC site design image.
United Architects

New WTC Plans & Proposals - United Architects design for New York's World Trade Center site. Click here for a large WTC site design image.
United Architects
Panorama

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)

New WTC Plans & Proposals - United Architects design for New York's World Trade Center site. Click here for a large WTC site design image.
United Architects
New WTC Plans & Proposals - United Architects design for New York's World Trade Center site. Click here for a large WTC site design image.
United Architects
New WTC Plans & Proposals - Peterson/Littenberg Architecture design for New York's World Trade Center site. Click here for a large WTC site design image.
New WTC Plans & Proposals - Peterson/Littenberg Architecture design for New York's World Trade Center site. Click here for a large WTC site design image.
Peterson/Littenberg

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)

New WTC Plans & Proposals - Peterson/Littenberg Architecture design for New York's World Trade Center site. Click here for a large WTC site design image.
Peterson/Littenberg
New WTC Plans & Proposals - Som/Sanaa (Sejima & Nishizawa), et al, design for New York's World Trade Center site. Click here for a large WTC site design image.
Som / Sanaa

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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Som / Sanaa
New WTC Plans & Proposals - Som/Sanaa (Sejima & Nishizawa), et al, design for New York's World Trade Center site. Click here for a large WTC site design image.
Som / Sanaa
New WTC Plans & Proposals - Som/Sanaa (Sejima & Nishizawa), et al, design for New York's World Trade Center site. Click here for a large WTC site design image.
Som / Sanaa
WTC Site Design Images of Open Areas and Green Spaces
New WTC Plans & Proposals - Parks, Gardens & Open Spaces - Studio Daniel Libeskind design for New York's World Trade Center site.

Daniel Libeskind
WTC Site
Wedge of Light
New WTC Plans & Proposals - Parks, Gardens & Open Spaces - Foster and Partners design for New York's World Trade Center site.

Foster & Partners
WTC Site
Overhead View
New WTC Plans & Proposals - Parks, Gardens & Open Spaces - Peterson/Littenberg Architecture design for New York's World Trade Center site.
Peterson/Littenberg
WTC Site
Garden View
New WTC Plans & Proposals - Parks, Gardens & Open Spaces - Richard Meier & Partners Architects, et al, design for New York's World Trade Center site.

Richard Meier
WTC Site
Public Space
New WTC Plans & Proposals - Parks, Gardens & Open Spaces - Som/Sanaa design for New York's World Trade Center site.

Som / Sanaa
WTC Site
Public Space
New WTC Plans & Proposals - Parks, Gardens & Open Spaces - Think Group design for New York's World Trade Center site.

Think Group
WTC Site
The Great Room
New WTC Plans & Proposals - Parks, Gardens & Open Spaces - Studio Daniel Libeskind design for New York's World Trade Center site.

Daniel Libeskind
WTC Site
Park Sketches
New WTC Plans & Proposals - Parks, Gardens & Open Spaces - Foster and Partners design for New York's World Trade Center site.


Foster & Partners
WTC Site
Park Sketches
New WTC Plans & Proposals - Parks, Gardens & Open Spaces - United Architects design for New York's World Trade Center site.

United Architects
WTC Site
Sky Memorial
New WTC Plans & Proposals - Parks, Gardens & Open Spaces - Richard Meier & Partners Architects, et al, design for New York's World Trade Center site.

Richard Meier
WTC Site
Public Space
New WTC Plans & Proposals - Parks, Gardens & Open Spaces - Som/Sanaa design for New York's World Trade Center site.

Som / Sanaa
WTC Site
Rooftop Gardens
New WTC Plans & Proposals - Parks, Gardens & Open Spaces - Think Group design for New York's World Trade Center site.

Think Group
WTC Site
Sky Park
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Libeskind Wedge
World Trade Center Site
Design Finalists Announced

THINK & Libeskind Proposals are Selected
New York City, February 4th, 2003

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THINK Design
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Daniel & Nina Libeskind
The final two WTC designs are selected. Click on the image for a larger view.
THINK's Rafael Vinoly
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NYC Press Conference
World's 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.
WTC New Design Archives - Studio Daniel Libeskind concept and design is selected to build a new Memory Foundations plan at the WTC site.

Libeskind Design
WTC Site
Skyline
Studio Daniel Libeskind
Design to Be Built at WTC Site
February 26th, 2003
WTC New Design Archives - Studio Daniel Libeskind concept and design is selected to build a new Memory Foundations plan at the WTC site.

Libeskind Design
WTC Site
Skyline
WTC New Design Archives - Studio Daniel Libeskind concept and design is selected to build a new Memory Foundations plan at the WTC site.

Libeskind Design
Overhead View
Park Area
Studio Daniel Libeskind wins WTC site design contest. WTC New Design Archives - Studio Daniel Libeskind concept and design is selected to build a new Memory Foundations plan at the WTC site.

Libeskind Design
Showing Park
Area with Wall
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WTC New Design Archives - Studio Daniel Libeskind concept and design is selected to build a new Memory Foundations plan at the WTC site. Studio Daniel Libeskind
Selected to Rebuild at WTC Site
Project Called
"Memory Foundations"
WTC New Design Archives - Studio Daniel Libeskind concept and design is selected to build a new Memory Foundations plan at the WTC site.

NY Daily News
Feb. 27, 2003
THE NEW WTC...
WTC New Design Archives - Studio Daniel Libeskind concept and design is selected to build a new Memory Foundations plan at the WTC site. The plan features a space designed to
capture a wedge of sunlight each year on
September 11th, from the time that the first
plane hit until the time the last tower fell.
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.
WTC New Design Archives - Studio Daniel Libeskind concept and design is selected to build a new Memory Foundations plan at the WTC site.
New 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.
WTC New Design Archives - Studio Daniel Libeskind concept and design is selected to build a new Memory Foundations plan at the WTC site.
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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.
Lower 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.
Lower 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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