Maybe there's hope for some vision in Lower Manhattan -- From CNN.com - Six teams chosen to create new designs for WTC site "Vowing an adherence to "quality and a keen sense of mission," the agency overseeing rebuilding at the World Trade Center site has hired six new design teams to create land use plans for the 16-acre site . . . The teams will have until November to submit their final designs. The goal is to settle on a single land use scheme by the spring of 2003. A separate competition for a memorial to those killed in the September 11 terrorist attacks will be held later . . . Among the better known American architects chosen are Richard Meier, who built the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, and Charles Gwathmey, who built the Guggenheim Museum addition and Morgan Stanley's headquarters in New York. They are collaborating on one team."

Meier and Gwathmey were among the architects involved with the NY Times Magazine project I linked to on September 25.

Cool.