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Frederic SCHWARTZ Architects is an award-winning, internationally recognized design firm with the expertise to program, plan, design and manage projects requiring the integration of architecture, planning and urban design. Our strength is our ability to create distinctive looking, detailed, high-performance environments for demanding clients, on-schedule and on budget. We have a diversity and wealth of experience in building types including transportation, offices, housing, retail, institutional, and large-scale public architecture. Frederic Schwartz interviewed on the Charlie Rose Show on PBS. |
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Principal Designers Shigeru Ban Architects Frederic Schwartz Architects Ken Smith Landscape Architect Rafael Viñoly Architects |
Contributors William Morrish David Rockwell Janet Marie Smith |
Engineering ARUP Buro Happold Schlaich Bergermann und Partner |
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The moral obligation in rebuilding Ground
Zero is not just how best to remember those who perished in this
tragedy, but how to make their memory the inspiration for a better future.
The issues at stake in planning the site have a local dimension as well as
global repercussions; therefore the design should address the specific
conditions of our city from a perspective that could also transcend its
limits. Ground Zero should emerge from this tragedy as the first truly Global Center, a place where people can gather to celebrate cultural diversity in peaceful and productive coexistence. |
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Finding the proper balance
between the two main objectives of the project -- Remembrance and
Redevelopment -- depends on the way in which investment in the public
infrastructure contributes to the Renewal of Lower Manhattan. Since
the level of funding will influence the design characteristics, we have
developed three different planning concepts -- the
Sky Park, the
Great Room and the
World Cultural Center -- in
order to demonstrate the impact of these possible levels of investment. |
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