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Ground Zero New York photo : Andrew McRae, 2007
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99 Church Street Tower
2008-
Robert A. M. Stern Architects
image : dbox Courtesy of: Silverstein Properties
World Trade Centre Tower
WTC 5 - World Trade Center Five
2007-13
KPF
40 storeys - J.P. Morgan Chase headquarters
Replaces the Deutsche Bank building damaged in 2001
View of 7 WTC Across Church Street:
image : Joe Woolhead I Courtesy of: Silverstein Properties I Taken: January 22, 2008
World Trade Centre - proposed buildings
Images of buildings by Sir Norman Foster, Lord Richard Rogers and Fumihiko Maki unveiled 8 Sep 2006
Location: east end of the WTC site
Date: 2007-12
Developer: Larry A. Silverstein / Port Authority of New York New Jersey
Architects: Foster & Partners, Richard Rogers Partnership and Maki & Associates
Foster and Partners : World Trade Centre Tower Two - 2.4 m sqft
Richard Rogers Partnership : World Trade Centre Tower Three - 2.0 m sqft
Maki and Associates : World Trade Centre Tower Four - 1.8 m sqft
Midtown View to WTC:
image : dbox Courtesy of: Silverstein Properties
World Trade Centre Tower Two - Foster and Partners
pictures: Foster + Partners I Courtesy of: Silverstein Properties
200 Greenwich Street
image : Foster + Partners
World Trade Centre Tower Three - Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners
images : RSHP, Team Macarie I Courtesy of: Silverstein Properties
World Trade Centre Tower Four - Maki and Associates
image : Maki and Associates I Courtesy of: Silverstein Properties
World Trade Center Five - KPF
World Financial Center, West St, Battery Park City, Lower Manhattan
1986
Cesar Pelli & Associates
Ground Zero New York photo, WTC7 on right : Andrew McRae, 2007
WFC1, WFC2, WFC3, WF4 + Winter Garden building to west
Postmodern towers - alternate tops: ziggurat, dome, cut & full pyramids
WFC1
1986
40 storeys - top: cropped pyramid
WFC2
1987
51 storeys - top: dome
WFC3
1985
54 storeys - top: pyramid
WFC4
1988
- storeys - top: ziggurat
World Financial Center New York : Cesar Pelli & Associates
WTC7 New York photo : Andrew McRae, 2007
World Trade Centre Tower Seven - first of new skyscrapers to be completed
2002-06
Architect: David Childs - SOM Architects
228m high, 52 storeys
For: Silverstein Properties
The original wtc7 from 1987 was destroyed 2001
WTC7 New York photo : Andrew McRae, 2007
World Trade Centre Tower Seven : SOM Architects
Key Manhattan building no longer standing:
Site of World Trade Center, New York
1966-73 (destroyed 2001)
Minoru Yamasaki, Emery Roth & Sons
One World Trade Center was 417m high, Two World Trade Center was 415m high
Ground Zero New York photo: Andrew McRae, 2007
World Trade Centre Tower - Previous News 2005:
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.
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
World Trade Center Towers - 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
New York Skyscrapers
Ground Zero site New York - photo: Andrew McRae, 2007
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.
World Financial Center including the Winter Garden
1986
Cesar Pelli, Architect
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 have an architects office in New York based at 50 Broad St
WTC Cultural Center New York : Snøhetta Architects
Another New York building by Daniel Libeskind:
Condominium tower in Union City, New Jersey
New York Architects
Hearst Tower New York
World Trade Center Tower initial design : Daniel Libeskind Architects
Ground Zero site New York - photo: Andrew McRae, 2007
New York Architecture
World Financial Center New York developer + architect : Canary Wharf
Olympia and York + Cesar Pelli
New York World Trade Center
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World Trade Center New York : Architecture page - adrian welch / isabelle lomholt
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