Libeskind plan picked for WTC site - Artworld - Daniel Libeskind - Brief Article

Nine months of speculation about the future of the World Trade Center site ended in late February when the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) announced the selection of Studio Daniel Libeskind's proposal. The design, which was also endorsed by New York's Governor George Pataki and Mayor Michael Bloomberg, features a complex of sharply angular buildings and a soaring, 1,776-foot spire containing a tiered garden, that will become the world's tallest structure [see "Front Page," Feb. '03].

Many relatives of the victims of Sept. 11 favored Libeskind's plan, which leaves untouched much of the WTC's original footprint, covering some seven acres. A design competition for a memorial on the site will likely begin later this spring. Originally, Libeskind called for the memorial to be located 70 feet below ground on the bedrock floor of the footprints, known as "the bathtub." He has already altered that part of the scheme, which now calls for the memorial's floor to be situated about 30 feet below ground. Libeskind, who is in the process of relocating from Berlin to New York, will proceed this spring with further revisions of his winning design.

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