Great Ideas Chasing A Flawed Concept

Ada Louise Huxtable has studied plans proposed for the World Trade Center site. “The conceptual daring and advanced technology of these schemes – the sheer drama of their bold images – brings cutting-edge creativity to New York, where it is long overdue. Buildings like these have already changed skylines from London to Hong Kong. This is the architecture of the 21st century, and about as good as it gets. That’s the good news. The bad news is that these provocative and beautiful presentations have also given us a stunning demonstration of how to do the wrong thing right.”