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British architect Lord Norman Foster has been chosen to build an office tower at the World Trade Center site. Foster's previous projects include the new Hearst tower in Manhattan, the Beijing airport and the Swiss Re headquarters in London. Rebuilding officials in New York say Foster's tower will be the second of developer Larry Silverstein's five planned office towers at ground zero. Foster joins a half-dozen architects, including Frank Gehry and Santiago Calatrava, hired since the 2001 attack to design different projects at the 16-acre trade center site. A transit hub designed by Calatrava is under construction now. Construction is...

...We've watched September 11 drift from unity of purpose to unhinged vituperation. The partisanship is easy to dismiss, but I believe the Bush team's deep disdain of a hostile opposition media has caused it to miss -- until now -- the need to organize a homefront to support the remarkable sacrifice in Iraq. This failure may prove to be the one unforgivable thing. As to September 11's stern symbol -- Ground Zero -- its place is secure no matter what New York's politics dumps into the Port Authority's 16 acres. The only true memorial that will ever be -- that...

Story URL Link with photos: http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/manhattan/nyc-freedom1219,0,7693237.story?coll=nyc-topheadlines-span Architects Release Revised WTC Tower Design By The Associated Press December 19, 2003, 9:55 AM EST A new design for the Freedom Tower at the World Trade Center site gracefully slopes into a spire rising 1,776 feet, echoing the Statue of Liberty and invoking elements of the Brooklyn Bridge, according to renderings released Friday. The new plan -- which comes after months of contentious negotiations between designers Daniel Libeskind and David Childs -- retains many elements of Libeskind's original plan but appears to smooth out many of its most angular elements. At a news...

NEW YORK - After months of feuding over the size and shape of the tower that will rise at the World Trade Center site, two world-renowned architects have reached a compromise design for what could be the world's tallest building. Negotiations have been contentious between Daniel Libeskind and David Childs, but the two were able to meet a deadline set by Gov. George E. Pataki and the results were expected to be unveiled Friday. The Lower Manhattan Development Corp., which oversees the rebuilding, says the tower will rise 1,776 feet, culminating in a spire and evoking the Statue of Liberty....