An Historic Day in the World Trade Center Rebuilding as Governor Pataki, Assembly Speaker Silver, Larry Silverstein and Three Renowned Architects Reveal a Collaborative Vision for Future Heart of Downtown's Commercial Corridor NEW YORK, Sept. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- In an exceptional assemblage of international architectural talent, Governor George E. Pataki, New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, World Trade Center Developer Larry A. Silverstein and architects Lord Norman Foster, Lord Richard Rogers and Fumihiko Maki gathered at 7 World Trade Center today to unveil designs for the three World Trade Center towers that will rise along the site's eastern edge, forming what will be the heart of a revitalized Downtown Manhattan's retail, transportation and office corridor. Along with the Santiago Calatrava-designed PATH Transportation Hub, the three towers, bounded by Church Street to the east and a reintroduced Greenwich Street to the west, will occupy the length of the east side of the World Trade Center site. In keeping with the Libeskind master plan for the site, the towers will form a descending spiral toward the Memorial and will include 6.2 million square feet of office space and a half million square feet of interconnected and contiguous first-class retail. The three towers were designed to seamlessly integrate with what will be newly-created pedestrian thoroughfares along the reconnected grid at Cortlandt and Dey Streets, the WTC Transportation Hub, which sits between the towers at 200 and 175 Greenwich, and the rest of the downtown neighborhood, including the Fulton Street Transit Center.
