[finnman69]

Then there was that bastard architect who used the event to promote his marxist philosophy, wanting to slap some ridiculous design on the NYSE to "Highlight the destruction capitalism has wrought".

WOW! LOL. FYI David Rockwell is a mega capitalist architect. His speciality is designing high end restaurants, he designed the new Oscar Theater in LA, the Mohegan Sun Casino in CT, Nobu in tribeca, and dozens of other high profile retail establishments in NYC ond other cities. He probably has 200 underpaid employees who slave for him. I agree the Hall of Risk idea is stoooopid. The worst part of the entire collaberation is in the end all they designed was turning the area into a gallery showcase of "look at me" avant garde architecture. Not only is the result incoherent but it misses the point of having architects collaborate on a masterplan. For the same reasons Herbert Muschamp (who organized the NY Times exercise) hates the buildings of Battery park City as drab, 90% of normal non-architects will hate the incoherent designs shown.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Do you get the sense that perhaps many of these designers are keeping their actual best-shot proposals hidden from public view for now? That article did come across as a design convention more about strutting for their peers than an actual charette.