The Perelman Arts Center, named after billionaire Trump donor Ronald Perelman, is supporting a proposed building at the World Trade Center that critics say should be completely, not partly, affordable.
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The Complicated Legacy of Modernist Minoru Yamasaki, Architect of World Trade Center
Yamasaki’s most well-known projects — the twin towers and the Pruit-Igoe housing project — were both destroyed on national television.
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After Faltering the First Time, Developer Launches New Residency at 3 World Trade Center
Silverstein Properties is launching a new art residency at 3 World Trade Center, but in 2017, their art residency inside a nearby building failed to pay dozens of artists.
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Stacked Boxes and BIG Statements in New Design for 2 World Trade Center
Bjarke Ingels revealed his proposal for 2 World Trade Center in an article for Wired on Tuesday. The final unbuilt plot at the hallowed New York City site — which had for a decade been reserved for a Norman Foster-designed scheme — may now give rise to a dramatically stepped, 1,340-foot glass tower.
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Making Art from WTC Dust
Xu Bing collected and saved the dust from the obliterated World Trade Center. Ten years later, this preserved dust is the centerpiece of a temporary art installation inside an empty storefront near Madison Square Park.
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Checking up on World Trade Center Architecture
Osama Bin Laden is dead, but that doesn’t mean the vestiges of 9/11’s impact on New York City are completely healed. With an infographic, the New York Times checks up on the most visible reminder of the event, the remains of Ground Zero and the construction of new World Trade Center buildings.
