Making ‘Coopetition’ Work On Trade Center Projects
Larry Silverstein, leaseholder of the World Trade Center, has asked three world class architects who have “world class egos” to leave those egos at the door and collaborate on the designs he has commissioned for 6.2 million sq ft of space in three new buildings at the trade center site.
Silverstein reviewed progress on those designs June 14 and 15 and spoke about the work at the ENR Top Leaders Forum in New York City. “I have extraordinarily talented architects—Richard Rogers, Norman Foster and Fumihiko Maki,” Silverstein said. The program he gave them was that the three new buildings should be “as different as they can and should be,” but also make sense “when put all together.” He said the work he had reviewed so far showed “diversity as well as respect.”