There are giant, organic pillars, like stalagmites or termite mounds, a visual or conceptual rhyme to the towers built outside.
But it turns out that a conceptual forerunner of the Freedom Tower design was published Sept. 8, 2002, in an issue of The New York Times Magazine devoted to the past and future of the trade center site.
I had come to 30 St Mary Axe in the City of London - the Gherkin - to see a poem that is written on benches around Norman Foster's tower, by the Scottish conceptual artist Ian Hamilton Finlay.
These networks were used to build related word lists encapsulating conceptual connections (e.g. church tower related to clock) so that during a secondary pass of the data, related network segments could be merged.
Working under an alias, Meredith Michaels Michael Meredithh), submitted a conceptual proposal to multiply the twin towers throughout the city, leaving the original WTC site vacant.
Its conceptual projects are on display, including One-Day Tower, a model of a 53-story building built from all the trash produced by New York City in 24 hours.
A conceptual model is also presented to explain the distribution of earthquake effects along tower elevation.
In taking these elements into account, the conceptual idea of combining the area of the top longitudinal rail, the strut tower and the engine and transmission mount into a single large aluminium alloy cast component was developed.
In fact, the skyscraper would be part tower, part rice farm, with rice terraces sitting atop the monstrous conceptual building.
The on-again, off-again plans to build an office tower over the north wing of the Port Authority Bus Terminal took at least a conceptual step forward on Thursday with the unveiling of competing designs by three leading architectural firms.
