Key Manhattan building no longer standing:

Site of World Trade Center
New York (destroyed 2001)
1966-73
Minoru Yamasaki, Emery Roth & Sons
One World Trade Center was 417m high, Two World Trade Center was 415m high

World Trade Center Towers - photos


Ground Zero New York photo, WTC7 on right: Andrew McRae, 2007

Freedom Tower - Site of World Trade Center
Ground Zero, Lower Manhattan
2004-
Daniel Libeskind Architects + David Childs of SOM Architects
Controversial towers to replace the World Trade Centre skyscrapers lost to New York in 2001. The main skyscraper by Libeskind was to be a significant number of feet high - 1,776 feet - to mark a key American date in history - United States Year of Independence; the building was largely handed over to architect David Childs. Designed to be the tallest tower in the world for the site leaseholder - real estate developer Larry Silverstein. The angular design is typical for Libeskind but here echoes the Statue of Liberty. A Snohetta building was also due to appear but the situation is in a state of flux, more online soon - 2006.

Daniel Libeskind was commissioned to design the Freedom Tower after a strongly
contested World Trade Center design competition in Feb 2003, beating architects
such as Norman Foster and in the end winning a two-strong shortlist.

Six teams were shortlisted in Sep 2002 out of over 400 submissions, including:
Foster & Partners
Richard Meier Architect
Studio Daniel Libeskind
United Architects
Think Group

Freedom Tower New York - Article on Ground Zero / World Trade Center

Gehry Partners LLP and Snøhetta were selected as architects for the World Trade Center cultural complex by Lower Manhattan Development Corporation in Dec 2004

World Trade Center Transportation Hub, New York City, USA
Santiago Calatrava has designed the Transport Interchange on the site, with an
arching skeletal form similar to that used in his French interchange - the Lyon-Satolas TGV Station. The World Trade Center Transit Hub is intended to mimic a flying dove.




New York Architecture - Photo © Tim Collins

New York Skyscrapers

In 1946 New York State Legislature set up a WTC Corporation to analyse such a facility. The World Trade Centre idea formed in 1960* and preliminary drawings were drawn up by SOM, who slipped in behind Libeskind 43 years later (via David Childs). Michigan-based Minori Yamasaki and Emery Roth & Sons completed the Twin Towers between 1966 and 1973. Yamasaki had over a hundred schemes, one being a single 150-storey tower. Towers 1 & 2, nicknamed ‘David & Nelson’ after the supportive Rockefeller Brothers became quintessential New York symbols, appearing on a large proportion of postcards.

Key Daniel Libeskind Buildings:
Jewish Museum, Berlin, Germany 1998
Imperial War Museum North, Manchester, England 2002
London Metropolitan University, London, England 2004


World Financial Center
-
1986
Cesar Pelli, Architect
Including the Winter Garden

World Trade Centre - New Museum Complex
Ground Zero
2006?
Snohetta, Architects
International Freedom Centre + Drawing Centre. Also named the WTC Cultural
Center. Snøhetta Architects became well known with their Alexandria library in
Egypt which won a major architecture competition: Snohetta Architects

Snohetta have an architects office in New York based at 50 Broad St

Another featured building by Daniel Libeskind:
Creative Media Centre - Hong Kong Buildings

Another New York building by Daniel Libeskind:
Condominium tower in Union City, New Jersey

New York Architects

Hearst Tower New York

New York World Trade Center - Transportation Hub: Santiago Calatrava



World Architecture : e-architect - a guide to key buildings across the globe

New York Architecture

World Trade Center Towers : Building Development News

World Trade Centre - Memorial Square Competition, New York, USA
2002
Peter Eisenman with Richard Meier & Partners Architects, Steven Holl Architects
and Gwathmey Siegel & Associates

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