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PROPOSAL FOR A NEW WORLD TRADE CENTER (World Trade Center Full Of Holes)
2002
A building pre-shot, pre-blown-out, pre-exploded.
From the original site, the building is extruded to a height of 110 stories; the unnecessary office footage, the extra volume, is blown away.
Now that there are holes in the building, now that there are tunnels through the building, the outside comes inside: you see through the building -- light streams through the building, like spotlights -- it rains and snows through the building. The interior of each cone is lined with walkways, ramps and stairways; these passages are parks (plantings, waterfalls, benches) and plazas and streets (food-stands, markets, performance areas).
The holes/cones/tubes are the structure of the building. Public space, instead of being in front of or beside the building, runs through the building, intertwined with private space.
This project view belongs to WTC, and is threadged with:
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