Design and Architecture

Envisioning the Future of Manhattan

Can architects enshrine grief and commerce at the World Trade Center site? Frances Anderton joins architecture critics Paul Goldberger of The New Yorker and Nicolai Ouroussoff of the LA Times, urbanist Witold Rybczynski and architect Greg Lynn in a discussion about the plans for Lower Manhattan. Are they a viable vision, or just flashy images that raise the profile of contemporary architecture?