SOM @ WTC.
Interior Design, September, 2006
By C.C. Sullivan
With the World Trade Center slowly rising, Silverstein Properties fast-tracked a marketing office by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Optimism drives real estate. Without confidence in a brighter future, why build at all? The colossal bullishness at the World Trade Center site proves the rule.
There, building schemes are drafted in an emotional microcosm. There, construction precedes customary prerequisites such as letters of credit and anchor tenants. There, not only does a developer commission two giant towers from Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, essentially on spec, but he goes on to audaciously unveil high-rise concepts by Foster and Partners, Maki and Associates, and the Richard Rogers Partnership.
While feuds...
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