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After September 11 - Re-imagining Manhattan's Downtown

Have You Watched? • Documentary, 01-Jan-2002

Reimagining Manhattan’s Downtown follows twenty of the fifty architects invited, by the Max Protetch Gallery, to submit their proposals for a new World Trade Center and memorial. Architects such as Billie Tsien, Hugh Hardy and Monica Ponce de Leon reveal their views on design, the urbanism of downtown Manhattan and the political fallout following September 11th.

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New York, Civil Architecture, USA, American Architects

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