Posted on 01/22/2003 4:59:02 PM PST by MadIvan
A SOARING, glass-domed tower designed nearly a century ago by the Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí has become the latest entry in the competition to find a replacement for New Yorks twin towers.
![]() Grand design: Antoni Gaudi's 1908 commission |
Now Paul Laffoley, a Boston-based architect, has teamed up with scholars and artists from Barcelona to revive Gaudís dream, with the new structure decorated with artefacts from the fallen twin towers as a memorial to those who died in the September 11 terrorist attacks.
The revised plans will be unveiled at the City University of New York graduate centre tonight.
A lot of the other proposals are literal ego trips, but here is a way that everyone can be involved in a historical project from around the world, Mr Laffoley said. The Sagrada Familia has become the symbol of Barcelona and Gaudí meant his hotel to be the symbol of New York.
If they only knew about this building, the people of New York would come to love it, Marc Mascort, who has made computer models of the building, said. Bringing this to New York would be more important than the Olympic Games.
A decision about what should eventually fill the site at Ground Zero has been repeatedly delayed by confusion about who is entitled to be the final arbiter, with the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, the site owner, the site lessees and Michael Bloomberg, the Mayor of New York, all claiming the final say.
Pretty darned full of yourself, aren't you?
I am an artist and a New Yorker, and I don't need you to tell me what I "need".
Glad it's not only me! Can you just hear it?
"Which part of the WTC do you work in ...?"
"Errrr......"
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