New design for New York’s ground zero
The managers of the redevelopment of the World Trade Centre zone in New York, mostly known as ground zero, showed last Thursday the design for the four towers that had not been presented yet.
Each one of the new buildings will be from a different studio, apart of the master plan, ideated by Daniel Libeskind:
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Tower two, by Norman Foster. 386m (408m with the pinnacle)
Tower three, by Richard Rogers. 352m (382 with the pinnacle)
Tower four, by Fumihiko Maki. 293m
Towers now called simply two, three and four, will occupy three plots between Church and Greenwich streets, in the eastern side of ground zero. Towers two and three left the huge Calatrava’s interchange station, which will be situated between them.
Norman Foster has been in charge of Tower two’s design. The most recognisable element of this tower is the upper part, with the shape of four inclined diamonds, pointing to the place where the destroyed Twin Towers laid.
This is the tower with the best opinion since it was presented. It will be a 78 storey building, with 62 floors dedicated to offices, and the rest to technical or commercial uses.
Richard Rogers had designed Tower three, which will have an external structural framework with diagonal lines (an example of his style). The tower will be crowned with an antenna in each vertex. It will have 8 commercial floors, 9 technical floors and 54 office floors (a total of 71 floors).
The smallest tower of the complex will be Tower Four, designed by the Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki. This tower has the simplest lines of the complex, but it is not a simple box, because it starts with a parallelogram in the base, to finish with a trapezoid shape.
Once developed the buildings, in an estimated period of 6 years, most of them would be used by port and municipal authorities of the city.
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