ABSTRACT
THE DISCUSSION SIMPLY GOT TO FORM TOO FAST. Perhaps there was no avoiding it, given the pressure. And there was a certain logic to the restoration of the skyline, to patching the gaping hole. Given the growing certainty that building was going to be the “solution,” we speculated about a form other than that of a tower or towers. We wanted to resist both the triumphalist phallomorphology of a bigger, higher, “better” version of the Trade Towers and to find a form that spoke to issues of harmony and peace while assuming some prominence on the skyline.
