Posted on 19/12/02
The power of towers
How to fill the void at the World Trade Center site? The answer, provided by seven visionary teams of architects gathered from around the world, lies in towers; towers that are sculpted and even folded slightly as if in prayer position. In the submissions presented at New York's Winter Gardens yesterday, there are towers that kiss in mid-air, while others stand up like soldiers aligned in a military grid. Some are beautiful. Most of them carry a tremendous wallop of architectural ego.
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