![]() AN has reached out to Foster + Partners for more information and will update this article accordingly.There are so many symbols in the thoughtful design of Ground Zero, including the 9/11 Memorial & Museum. Once finished, 2 WTC will fill in one of the last empty lots at the World Trade Center complex, capping Studio Libeskind’s 2003 master plan for the 16-acre site alongside the forthcoming Five World Trade Center. No estimated construction start or opening dates have been made public yet. ![]() As Curbed noted in Christopher Bonanos’s breakdown of the new design, boxy glass towers are more or less typical for the area now, and the vertical banding of 2 WTC’s facade will find similar company in Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners’ 3 World Trade Center tower on the other side of Fulton Street. Speaking of the exterior and specifically the curtain wall, it appears Foster + Partners has opted for mirrored floor-to-ceiling windows banded with thick vertical steel “poles” that will segment each volume and direct the eye upward. ![]() It’s likely these will be amenity spaces for office occupants and should provide sweeping views of Manhattan on the eastern side and New Jersey to the west. Each terrace, from the renderings, will be broken up with plantings, and it looks like each vertical volume will hold intermediary outdoor plazas-a stark contrast from the singular, sculptural structure previously pitched. A cascade of terraces will move from the podium up to the peak toward One World Trade Center to the west and top out at about 1,350 feet. (Courtesy Visualhouse)įor fans of the original proposal, you’re out of luck, as Foster + Partners is apparently planning a staggered bundle of slender volumes with each topped by a green roof. Vertical bands on the facade will emphasize the tower’s verticality while embedded terraces break up what could otherwise be a monolithic massing. Now, the renderings released earlier this month from Visualhouse appear to corroborate that. More definitive answers as to what will be built at 200 Greenwich Street in Manhattan’s Financial District appeared in November, when New York YIMBY posted photos of an architectural model depicting tall, split volumes atop a longer base. (Even after BIG took over the project, Foster’s diamond design could still be found on official artwork in the subway system and in murals across New York City.) ![]() (Courtesy Foster + Partners)Īt the time, it was a bit unclear whether that meant the old design would come back or something new would be considered Larry Silverstein said the original proposal would be “significantly modified” to account for current tastes and updated needs. The new proposal took the segmenting even further. Foster + Partners’ original design for Two World Trade Center did involve splitting the tower into four conjoined vertical volumes. ultimately backed out, and without an anchor tenant (BIG’s design would have also required updates to the extant foundation), Silverstein Properties handed the project back to Norman Foster in January of 2020. In its place, BIG designed a set of six boxy volumes that would rise and rotate from a podium up to 80 stories, with the underside of each segment featuring scrolling news and stock tickers. Gone was Foster + Partners’ plans for a slender 88-story office tower that terminated in four sloping diamonds intended to draw the eye downward toward the 9/11 Memorial. Although Foster + Partners was awarded the project 17 years ago and the foundation was laid in 2013, work has been proceeding at a slow clip and the original team was replaced by BIG in 2015 after developer Silverstein Properties decided to take a more contemporary approach and position the tower as the future home of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation and 21st Century Fox.
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