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The assault on the World Trade Center has knocked out nearly 20 percent of the lower Manhattan office market, according to a report by Salomon Smith Barney. The clean-up job is at least half a year away from completion, but the site is already the eye of a collective brainstorm generated by architects, urban planners, and developers.
That the land will be developed is beyond question, according to Gary Boston, a real estate analyst at Salomon Smith Barney,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], who foresees "some sort of complex that probably includes some offices, maybe includes retail and housing and some sort of public memorial. It's not a clean slate, but it opens of a lot of possibilities of what the place could look like."
In the wake of the attack,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Larry Silverstein, the Manhattan real estate magnate who owns a 99-year lease on the World Trade Center, toyed with the idea of replicating the twin towers as a show of defiance in the face of terror, an idea that had an in-your-face appeal to many feisty New Yorkers.
"A suitable memorial will be erected,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but the two loved and admired towers should be rebuilt," former New York City Mayor Ed Koch told the Monitor.
The idea met a lukewarm reception in the press, and especially from the preponderance of architectural critics,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], who never felt at ease beneath the awkward giants.
Within a fortnight of the attack,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Silverstein was floating an informal proposal to erect four office buildings,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], each half as tall as the fallen towers. This vision has yet to endure the bureaucratic odyssey through fine-tuning and special-interest dealing by municipal and state governments and business barons who have a major financial stake in the site and surrounding territory.
No desire for humongous skyscrapers
But almost everyone agrees that the twin towers, the era of humongous skyscrapers, and the modernist aesthetic that gave them birth are things of the past.
"The buildings of that period in the '70s were really a reflection of the faith in technology and of an interest in technological challenges - those were the same years we went to the moon,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," says Carol Willis, director of the Skyscraper Museum in New York. "Since then, we haven't built buildings as big."
The World Trade Center was originally conceived as a vehicle of urban renewal,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], to thwart the upward slide of the financial district from downtown Manhattan toward choice locations in Midtown. New York Gov. The ports had mostly gone to New Jersey, and the state had to step in to help the PA fill the offices with state employees. The Trade Center fared better in the 1980s, and best of all in the 1990s,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], when the towers were handed over to Larry Silverstein, who filled the offices with insurance and investment firms.
To design the towers,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the PA hired Minoru Yamasaki,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a rags-to-riches success story who had paid his way through architecture school by working summers in the Seattle fish canneries. But the PA wanted an architect with a small ego,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], yet possessed of the mathematical bravura essential for designing a building that would "get noticed,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," in their understated terms.
"He was definitely someone who would listen to them and had the soul of an engineer," says Mr. Darton in an interview.
As a feat of engineering,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the towers were an astonishing success. The commission presented Mr. Yamasaki with a baffling problem: how to fit 10 million square feet of office space on a 16-acre site.
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