Chapter 7, The Search for New York City’s Eero Saarinen

Architects are the journalists that publish their work on the skyline of the city. While an article appears in a paper for a day, a building appears in the skyline and stay there until glorified and loved or despised and demolished. Nationally posting an addition to New York's skyline after September 11, 2001, is a rare occurrence, it can only happene once in New York’s life time. Historian Mike Wallace verbalized this saying: “Catastrophe, ironically, has presented us with a great, historic, opportunity.”(Wallace 5)
There are no room for errors, every aspect has to be well thought and competently administered.There should be no 2nd chances since this was the second chance for the same administrators that failed the 1st time. In this chapter I ‘ll give an explanation into how to Competently administer a national design competition. This chapter will prepare the readers to understand and be able to crituoqe the New York's international design competition that will be addressed in the next 2 chapteres.
As a precedent, I chose the time tested, history authenticated public design process that created the design for Sydney Opera House. A process that Sydney (Australia) applied in 1957.