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May 29, 2003
Need for Commercial Office Space Is Still Reshaping WTC Restoration
While the rest of the world is under the impression that architect Daniel Libeskind is in charge of rebuilding the devastated World Trade Center site, Larry Silverstein, who holds the lease on the complex, continues to press his own commercial interests for the site.
Boston Globe Online
May 19, 2003
Official Puts Cost of Rebuilding Ground Zero at $10 Billion
Rebuilding the World Trade Center site will cost roughly $10 billion, with two-thirds of that paying for the office, cultural and transportation buildings envisioned in the architect Daniel Libeskind's design, a top rebuilding official said yesterday.
New York Times
May 2, 2003
Shadows to Fall, Literally, Over 9/11 'Wedge of Light'
Daniel Libeskind described his design for ground zero to New Yorkers late last year, he said one prominent feature would be an open plaza upon which "the sun will shine without shadow" each year on the morning of Sept. 11. But yesterday, under fire from a critic, Mr. Libeskind said that shadows would extend across the plaza.
New York Times
May 2, 2003
WTC Architect's Plan Criticized By Peer
An architect - a critic of the rebuilding process who has circulated his own design - is questioning Libeskind's plan for a so-called Wedge of Light, saying his math shows sunlight will be sparse.
AP via Guardian Unlimited
April 25, 2003
Pataki Sketches a Timetable for Rebuilding of Ground Zero
Gov. George E. Pataki laid out a plan yesterday to complete substantial portions of the work at the World Trade Center site by the fifth anniversary of the attack of Sept. 11, 2001.
New York Times
April 22, 2003
Pataki Wants Downtown Rebuilt Fast
Gov. George E. Pataki is expected to tell a group of business and civic leaders this week that the 1,776-foot tower that is a central part of Daniel Libeskind's design for the World Trade Center site will be one of the first construction projects to get under way there.
New York Times
April 22, 2003
Gov Wants New WTC Super-Spire Up First, And Up Fast
Gov. Pataki will unveil an aggressive schedule for construction at the World Trade Center site, making the 1,776-foot spire in Daniel Libeskind’s design one of the first steps in the rebuilding process.
New York Daily News
April 21, 2003
Planner for Trade Center Rebuilding Resigns
The director of planning at the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, who personally invited Daniel Libeskind to enter the design competition for the World Trade Center site, has resigned, officials said yesterday.
New York Times
April 9, 2003
Competition to Design 9/11 Memorial Starts
On April 28, the Lower Manhattan Development Corp., which is overseeing the World Trade Center rebuilding plans, will release its official memorial guidelines, launch a Web site to register plans and start a media campaign in 22 languages soliciting design ideas.
Washington Post
April 23, 2003
Engineering Firm Says Collapse of Twin Towers Two Separate Events
An analysis by an engineering firm says both towers fell because their inner steel cores were weakened by fire. The analysis was paid for by leaseholder Larry Silverstein.
CBS 2
March 20, 2003
Agencies To Contract With Libeskind For WTC Site Design
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. will jointly sign a contract with Daniel Libeskind as the master design architect at the World Trade Center site, the two agencies said Thursday.
Nasdaq
March 20, 2003
Fears over power plays at new WTC
Architect Daniel Libeskind, whose plan was chosen to guide the rebuilding of the World Trade Centre site, was negotiating a contract with the owner of the property, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, said Charles Gargano, the agency's vice-chairman.
Financial Review (Australia)
March 6, 2003
Redevelopment Plan picked for Ground Zero
The 56-year-old Libeskind beat out a team called Think.
ENR
March 5, 2003
WTC Plans Draw Mixed Responses at Columbia
The selection of the new design for the World Trade Center last week provoked a great deal of discussion on campus, mainly regarding the strengths and weaknesses of the two finalists' plans.
Columbia Spectator
March 4, 2003
Daniel Libeskind Says Project Should Be 'Something That Can Move Us Forward'
Architect Daniel Libeskind in an art history and archaeology seminar on Art in Society in September said that New York does not need "clever buildings," to replace the World Trade Center, New York needs "something that can move us forward.
Columbia News
March 4, 2003
Garden supplanted at WTC
Soaring gardens that were a distinctive feature of the winning design for the former World Trade Center site were removed from the plan and replaced by communications equipment before the design was selected last week, New York redevelopment officials said Monday.
Chicago Tribune
March 3, 2003
Keeping Libeskind's plan noble, logical
Daniel Libeskind's master plan for the former World Trade Center site, selected Wednesday, is a new noble, logical diagram.
Chicago Trubune
March 3, 2003
Memorial at heart of winning WTC design 'Breathtaking and practical'
At last they have a plan -- or at least the outlines of one. Now comes the hard part.
USA Today
March 3, 2003
Towering ambition
The architect selected to redesign the World Trade Centre is both showman and purist, maybe just the combination to give Ground Zero back to New Yorkers
Guardian Unlimited
March 3, 2003
Rebuilding at Ground Zero
The competition to design the World Trade Center site is over. The winner is Daniel Libeskind. But how much of his powerful scheme will be built?
Time Magazine
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