PAC NYC is a beacon of simplicity at Ground Zero | Financial Times

The World Trade Center site is a mess. All that discussion, all that discourse, the heart-rending and hand-wringing in the end resulted in a hypercommercial cluster of banal towers with the dazzling white monstrous rib cage of Santiago Calatrava’s transportation hub at its core.On the other hand, what was previously an office-hours-only plaza has, since the Twin Towers’ brutal destruction, become a surprisingly active civic landscape of memory. The gaping, gushing holes of the memorials marking out the base of the former towers still attract crowds standing quietly in line for the 9/11 Museum and to buy souvenirs at the official stands. Tragedy has turned an office park into an actual piece of city with greenery, extensive public space and a constant flow of people.

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