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Snohetta Redesigned the Old Cultural CenterNew vistas have opened at the World Trade Center site.
The architectural firm Snohetta has radically redesigned what was once to have been the cultural center at ground zero.
The new version, occupying about 30 percent of the area of the original, will create an entry plaza at Fulton and Greenwich Streets that will guide visitors to the twin memorial pools beyond, rather than blocking the view from the north and the east.
It will also allow skylights, set in the plaza pavement, to illuminate the underground mezzanine of the PATH terminal and transportation hub designed by Santiago Calatrava.
The Snohetta building should be much easier to engineer - and therefore less expensive - with its bulk shifted away from a location directly over the column-free PATH mezzanine.
Absent the Drawing Center and the International Freedom Center museum, which have been removed from the project, the Snohetta building is expected to shrink to about 50,000 or 60,000 square feet from 250,000 square feet.
It is to serve as a visitors' center, an orientation center and as a "center for Sept. 11," said John P. Cahill, who oversees downtown redevelopment as Gov. George E. Pataki's chief of staff.
"It is a building that will hopefully tell the story about Sept. 11, the uplifting stories of Sept. 11," Mr. Cahill
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