Chapter 4 The Masters’ Plan Was the New York Times Magazine’s

The Masters’ Plan Was the New York Times Magazine’s Study Project to rebuild Lower Manhattan that was curated by Herbert Muschamp, who was the architecture critic of the New York Times then.

In this chapter I am using the New York Times’ curated study project as a precedent.
This project presented a more national and a more successful approach to rebuild Lower Manhattan than the LMDC’s run one. This illustrated the fact that there are other better approaches to rebuild Lower Manhattan that weren’t pursued, this was one of them.
The secret of the success of this project was its main design concept. The project's concept was building on top of West Street that expanded Lower Manhattan by 16 extra acres. This expansion allowed the many highly qualified architects collaborating in this project to produce significant architecture, a lot of it. I couldn’t help but see their project as a precedent to my thesis project in regard of expanding Lower Manhattan.
The New York Times curated study-project succeeded to the extent that another magazine did a similar project. New York magazine invited a group of six architects to present their proposals. The proposals were published on September 16, 2002, Issue of the New York magazine. Pritzker Prize winner Zaha Hadid submitted an elegant design as one of those six proposals. William Pedersen, of the famed Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF) submitted another scheme of these proposals. KPF's scheme proposed building on top of West Street, crediting the expansion approach one more time.