Articles Tagged with ''World Trade Center''

BIG Unveils Redesign of Two World Trade Center

What is the status of the development of Two World Trade Center?

June 9, 2015

Today, architecture firm Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) showed off its new design for 2 World Trade Center—a gleaming, 1,340-foot-tall stack of seven glazed volumes—that will replace an earlier scheme by Foster + Partners.

In the Cause of Architecture

Is Inspiration Enough?

What the new WTC plans accomplished and what they're up against.

James S. Russell, FAIA Emeritus

December 1, 2002

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When splashed across newspapers, television screens and Web sites worldwide on December 18, the nine proposals for the World Trade Center site may have looked like a brave new skyscraper world—to paraphrase the headline of December 19th’s New York Daily News—or an exhibition of architectural ego as Lisa Rochon put it in the Toronto Globe and Mail.