Trade Center Plans
I finally went down to the Winter Garden this week to have a look at the model for the trade center project. I'm now more confused than I was before I took a look. It looks like the architects already assumed the Deutsche Bank building would be torn down - though that was only announced last week - and other buildings still standing look like maybe they're coming down, too. Also, it seems very weird looking at cars driving through the site, as they've proposed with Greenwich Street, and just this week, city planners said they want even more roads through the site. And another thing I should have realized before now, even though the plans will likely respect the footprints of the two towers, about four new skyscrapers will go up into what is now that huge gaping space -- and all along I've held that the size of the empty space goes a long way in expressing how much was lost. Imagining new tall buildings within the perimeter is unsettling.
- posted by Amy @ 3/03/2004 08:08:00 AM