When news that Norman Foster’s design for 2 World Trade Center would be swapped in favor of a more eccentric scheme by Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), speculation as to the reasons stacked up as high as the glazed volumes in the elected design.
Wiredreported that James Murdoch, soon-to-be CEO of the project’s anchor tenant, 21st Century Fox, didn’t like Foster’s building: “that’s why Foster ended up being bumped aside in favor of Ingels, who is exactly half his age.”
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