Pen-Elayne on the Web

Architectural Wonderment

Thanks to Lynn Sislo for passing along the Lower Manhattan Development Corp's site showing the seven new proposed designs for the World Trade Center memorial and rebuilt monstrosities. Okay, maybe they're not all monstrous. If I actually had to choose one of the seven, I'd pick the Foster and Partners plan (that's the one in the upper left of the "V" shape); Peterson/Littenberg (upper right) is okay but uninspiring, and Studio Daniel Libekind (underneath it) is kinda nice too but seems a bit crowded. If there's one thing downtown Manhattan does not need to be any more, it's crowded. A couple of the others are just plain silly. What do y'all think? Oh, and still slogging through the blogs (we shall come rejoicing, slogging through the blogs) on my "must check out soon" list, but I've added four to the left bar - Julie of Sisyphus Shrugged, Christine Quiñones (sorry the blogroll doesn't reproduce the tilde correctly, Christine), Elaine of Kalilily and Lesley of the House of Plum.