Imagining Ground Zero: Official and Unofficial Proposals for the World Trade Center Site
by Suzanne Stephens, with Ian Luna and Ron Broadhurst
Rizzoli/Architectural Record, October 2004

Hardcover | 9-1/4 x 12-1/4 inches | 252 pages | English | ISBN: 9780847826575 | $60.00

FROM THE FLAPS:
The most important building competition in the world today, and the most important one since the international design competition for the Chicago Tribune Tower in 1922, is for the reconstruction of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan. It has inspired a multitude of designs and has engaged architects on a global scale in the re-imagining of the twin towers' vacant sixteen-acre site.
Published in conjunction with Architectural Record, the preeminent architecture journal in the United States, Imagining Ground Zero: Official and Unofficial Proposals for the World Trade Center Site documents not only the master plan competition, won by Studio Daniel Libeskind and sponsored by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, but also proposals submitted by invitation  of and published by New York magazine, proposals from the exhibition at Max Protetch Gallery, as well as a selection from the more than 5,000 schemes submitted to the World Trade Center Memorial. The remarkable and authoritative survey features in depth the official scheme for the site, designed by David Childs of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill with the collaboration of Daniel Libeskind of Studio Daniel Libeskind;...