Wednesday, September 23, 2015

911 tower

"Starchitect" Bjarke Ingels has designed the last tower that will, as he puts it, "frame" the eight blocks of  the 911 memorial.

The building will look like a column of seven offset blocks, providing an outdoor terrace or hanging garden for each block. He pictures the blocks housing different sorts of companies, more creative than financial. Its core tenants will be media companies.


Ingels, just 40 years old, moved to New York City from his native Denmark five years ago and is very much in demand. His firm is also co-designer of Google's new headquarters near San Francisco Bay.

Charlie Rose interviews the animated and well-spoken Bjarke Ingels here.

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