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NEW YORK (Feb. 4) - The agencies overseeing the rebuilding of the World Trade Center site have reached a consensus on the finalists for design proposals for the new site.
A news conference was scheduled for Tuesday to announce the two finalists. A final choice is to be made later this month by the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. and the Port Authority.
Two towering structures have emerged as leading contenders, including a proposal that evokes the original trade center with twin latticework towers and another that exposes the foundation walls of the old towers.
Both designs feature structures rising higher than the tallest in the world, Malaysia's 1,483-foot Petronas Twin Towers.
The plans were selected from 407 submissions from around the world.
Nine proposals for redeveloping the 16-acre World Trade Center site, where 2,792 people died on Sept. 11, 2001, were unveiled Dec. 18.
The finalists were selected during a Monday evening meeting, but officials wouldn't say what was decided.
Recurring turf battles over control of the site may complicate the decision-making.
Developer Larry Silverstein, who holds the lease to the trade center site, complained in a letter to development corporation chairman John Whitehead last week that the proposed designs do not include enough office space.
A news conference was scheduled for Tuesday to announce the two finalists. A final choice is to be made later this month by the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. and the Port Authority.
Two towering structures have emerged as leading contenders, including a proposal that evokes the original trade center with twin latticework towers and another that exposes the foundation walls of the old towers.
Both designs feature structures rising higher than the tallest in the world, Malaysia's 1,483-foot Petronas Twin Towers.
The plans were selected from 407 submissions from around the world.
Nine proposals for redeveloping the 16-acre World Trade Center site, where 2,792 people died on Sept. 11, 2001, were unveiled Dec. 18.
The finalists were selected during a Monday evening meeting, but officials wouldn't say what was decided.
Recurring turf battles over control of the site may complicate the decision-making.
Developer Larry Silverstein, who holds the lease to the trade center site, complained in a letter to development corporation chairman John Whitehead last week that the proposed designs do not include enough office space.
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