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New Developments In The News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

The cultural building at Ground Zero takes shape, new towers turn on their night-lights, and a corset will help keep that bodacious OMA/Koolhaas-designed east side condo stable

After years of tweaking, tugging and tinkering, the redesign of the cultural building in the memorial plaza at Ground Zero has been unveiled. Inside the 72-foot-high pavilion will be two trident columns which were part of the base of one of the twin towers of the World Trade Center. The main "memorial" consists of two large sunken pools inside a forest. Visitors will enter the exhibition galleries of the National September 11 Memorial and Museum through the pavilion, which will also offer a 180-seat auditorium and a small cafe.

The 34-story residential condominium planned for 309 Fifth Avenue between 31st and 32nd Streets will be a hotel instead. The top of the glass-clad tower will be illuminated at night. Also adding its night-light to the Manhattan sky:

More on that impossible-looking, OMA/Rem Koolhaas-designed 24-story condo at 23 East 22nd Street: In the gravity-defying design, in the “areas under greatest stress, the window spacing is modified to provide increased structural area and rigidity, supporting the building like a structural corset." The new residence—a collaboration with Creative Artists Agency—will feature screening facilities for resident film buffs.

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