More towers, a transportation hub and the National September 11 Museum are in various stages of construction.
Compare the two models showing the plan envisioned by Daniel Libeskind in 2003 and the design as it evolved, with the twisting Freedom Tower, the birdlike transportation hub and a landscaped memorial that turns the twin tower outlines into water-filled voids.
New manufacturing innovations, based on automated spiral welding, may enable on-site production of wind towers, thereby precluding transportation limits and permitting the manufacture of taller towers, which can harvest the steadier, stronger winds at higher elevations.
It would also provide a more appropriate setting for the adjacent soaring towers and the transportation center.
We've always paid close attention to the things that distinguish New York City — the manhole covers, the water towers, the public transportation system that lets us live here without owning cars.
They also want to move the tower closer to the transportation hub, which they believe will also attract more tenants.
Key members of the Los Angeles government are pushing for a zoning change to Hollywood that would make it a much denser residential area, with towers located near public transportation and a vibrant street life, Adam Nagourney writes.
Stern, a longtime Westchester resident and daytime inhabitant of a Midtown Manhattan office tower, knew little of the transportation hub and gentrifying neighborhoods around the proposed site.
Mr. Silverstein has instead proposed putting the tower more directly over the transportation hub in the middle of the site, closer to the edge of the financial district.
There is a lot more news to come from ground zero, including the announcement of plans for the first tower next week and for the transportation center sometime in January.
