February 11, 2003

What're THINK Thinking?

Team THINK's latticework towers, image:rvapc.com Team THINK's winning WTC design: lattice towers with a, um, museum? embedded in it image: rvapc.com

Goin' to hear THINK architect/model Rafael Vinoly at Urban Center tonight (as suggested by Gawker)? Ask him if the reason he was a no-show yesterday on WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show was that listener's early comment, which surprised Lehrer, about how THINK's towers appear to have an airplane embedded in it? Listen to the exchange is in the "3rd audio clip.

[Note: If you watch THINK's video on The NYT's slideshow, the shape of the "airplane" is quite different; it looks more like a giant aluminum cheese straw. For THINK's sake, I hope that's closer to their intentions. One team of architects trying to sneak a shudder-inducing memorial past us is more than enough, thanks.]

architecture | posted by greg at February 11, 2003 1:41 AM