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Memorial Concepts
"Lower Manhattan Development Corporation And Port Authority Unveil Six Concept Plans For World Trade Center Site, Adjacent Areas And Related Transportation"
After a headline like that, I figured that I would be taken to a page laden with information, but instead found an information-thin page offering links to the process, concept plans, and feedback. The process and plans pages then have more subpages. The concept plans main page offers no comparison of the designs, just links to pages that contain still more links to still more subpages. Oy. I took a little time to arrange things to make it a little easier to make side-by-side comparisons:
Memorial Plaza
» 8-acre plaza with a memorial/cultural building on the western edge
» 18.1 total acres of new public space, including parks, streets, sidewalks, and grand promenade
» 5 towers (1 at 79 stories, 2 at 67 stories, and 2 at 62 stories)Memorial Square
» 10-acre square, with a memorial/cultural building on the western edge
» Public arcades and rooftops overlooking square
» 24.1 total acres of public space, including parks, streets, sidewalks, public arcades, and grand promenade
» 4 towers (1 at 80 stories, 2 at 70 stories, 1 at 56 stories)Memorial Triangle
» 5-acre triangular open space
» Memorial/cultural facilities, with a public pavilion
» 13.2 acres of total public space including streets, sidewalks, and public arcades
» 6 towers (1 at 85 stories, 1 at 61 stories, and 4 at 59 stories)Memorial Garden
» 4-acre open space
» Memorial or cultural facilities in the southwest portion of the site
» 6.8-acres of new public space including streets, sidewalks, and public arcades
» 5 towers (1 at 80 stories, 2 at 66 stories, 2 at 50 stories)Memorial Park
» 6-acre park partially situated on a deck over West Street
» 14.4 acres of new public space, including new streets, public square, arcades and an enclosed galleria
» 5 towers (2 at 72 stories, 3 at 45 stories)Memorial Promenade
» Grand promenade connecting museum/cultural facilities on the site to Battery Park, and via ferry, Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty
» 27.7 acres of public space, including the grand promenade, new streets, public squares, arcades, and an enclosed galleria
» 6 towers (2 at 63 stories, 4 at 32 stories)
There's a lot more that could be done with this, but I hope that my small effort might help the LMDC make the design a little easier to use. I'll write to them with a link to this page and see what they think.
All of the proposals include a 1500-foot skyline element, though the maximum building heights range from 63-85 stories tall, well short of the 110 story height of the towers. The 1500-foot element is taller than the 1368-foot elevation of the towers themselves, but not quite as tall as the 1728-foot height of the antenna on tower 1. I think that's a good area... not taller than the towers, but still quite tall. Click on the "skyline elevation" links to see the view from across the Hudson. The scale models and animation links will also help you get a better feel for how the proposals would fit into the cityscape.
Oh, yeah... for what it's worth I like Memorial Square and Memorial Park the best.
:: Keith 10:48 [link] :: ::
