Windturbines for the World Trade Center site
Item: #173,
Posted: 11/12/03
The 1,776-foot Freedom Tower at the World Trade Center site in New York
will be topped by environmentally friendly wind turbines. Although the
plans will not be unveiled until next week, the turbines would appear to
be instead of the initially proposed "gardens in the sky". The design
is a collaboration between Daniel Libeskind, whose plan won out in the
redevelopment contest, and David Childs, the chief architect employed by
Larry Silverstein who has the lease on the site.
Update:
The design was indeed unveiled in a big press conference on 19th December
in New York. The write up by
Felix Salmon has the
best pictures of the design I've seen, including the lattice work, and the
wind turbines.
