I don't usually post blogs unless I have an assignment but after researching the Manhattan Municipal Building for my precedent analysis project I was curious about the new world trade center building. I was reading an article about the Municipal Building saying that it might be turned into apartments and its offices such as the department of marriages and city hall would be moved to tower 4 of the new World Trade Center. Apparently there are going to be 4 towers to the new World Trade Center. The design was unveiled three years ago! I feel so out of the loop.
Freedom Tower is the original tower planned for the site and is supposedly going to be the tallest building in the world according to it's architects Skidmore, Owings and Merril (SOM). Three more towers were then added to the site designed by Norman Foster, Richard Rogers, Fumihiko Maki. The order of the towers are from left to right as follows: SOM tower 1, Foster tower 2, Rogers tower 3, and Maki tower 4. The designs are breathtaking and I am very excited to see how this grand center of architecture comes about. Of course each building has the safest building technology available such as separate staircases for firefighters in case of an emergency. I think I will let these designs speak for themselves!
Right: Richard Roger's tower 3 design
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