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British Architect Lord Norman Foster Joins Group Rebuilding World Trade CenterBritish architect Lord Norman Foster was named to build a 65-story office tower at the World Trade Center site.
Foster, whose projects include the new Hearst tower in Manhattan, the Beijing airport and the Swiss Re headquarters in London, will build the second of developer Larry Silverstein's five planned office towers at Ground Zero.
He joins a half-dozen architects, including Frank Gehry and Santiago Calatrava, hired since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to design different projects at the 16-acre trade center site.
A transit hub designed by Calatrava is under construction.
Construction is scheduled to begin this spring on architect David Childs' Freedom Tower skyscraper.
Groundbreaking also is scheduled in spring for a trade center memorial, and Gehry has submitted designs for a performing arts center.
Foster, who won architecture's most prestigious Pritzker prize in 1999, competed to design the entire trade center site but lost to architect Daniel Libeskind.
The new skyscraper will include more than 100,000 square feet of ground-level retail space and an underground concourse connecting workers to the new transit hub.
Foster said he would present a design in the summer.
Construction is scheduled to begin in 2007, and the building would open in 2011, two years after the Freedom Tower.
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