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Debate Continues Over New World Trade Center Site PlansPlans to rebuild New York City's World Trade Center are forging ahead, but the design that will replace the Twin Towers, destroyed in the September 11 2001 terror attacks, is at the center of a heated debate.
Family members of those killed consider Ground Zero a gravesite. Architects and city planners regard it as a beacon of future development. And in this election season, politicians are mentioning the tragedy that happened there more and more often. "My fellow Americans, for as long as our country stands, people will look to the resurrection of New York City and they will say: Here buildings fell, here a nation rose," President George W. Bush told a rousing Republican National Convention in New York last week.
Three years after the tragedy, plans are underway to erect new buildings, and yet the dust has hardly settled on a public dispute between two chief designers: David Childs, an architect hired by the lease-holder of the World Trade Center, wants to rebuild the site as a commercial hub; and Daniel Libeskind, the Polish-born designer whose plan for an elaborate skyscraper, garden and memorial area won an intense international competition.
Mr. Libeskind says his design is filled with symbolism.
" Indeed, not just some buildings standing around but those buildings that embrace the memorial, spiral upwards
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