World Trade Center Performing Arts Center scraps Pritzker winner's design.

Gehry's Proposed Design.Courtesy of Gehry Partners

Frank Gehry’s proposal for a performing arts center at the World Trade Center has been shelved.According to The New York Times, the board overseeing the project opted to eschew the Pritzker Prize–winner’s design and begin the process anew. Board chairman John Zuccotti told the Times that the group has shortlisted three firms to move the project forward, but declined to divulge names.

More than a decade ago, in his original master plan, Daniel Libeskind located the performing arts center 60 feet from the base of One World Trade. Gehry Partners was brought on in 2004 to design the cultural facility. At the time, Gehry said in a statement that tears came to his eyes: “Having the chance to work on a cultural project there is a very special opportunity for me, because, in the end, having theater and dance and beauty is kind of a wonderful legacy for the memory of the people that were lost.”....Continue Reading

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