This chapter details the -very much conclusive- “assault” on New York’s hopes for a significant architecture. This assault took place right at the start of 2nd Round of the design process that was known as the design competition.
The rebuilding process was constrained to serve the purpose of a few and defeat the purpose of the entire country. After this start, there were no medals to win no heights to reach, irreparable harm took place. At this point the government-track of the rebuilding process “clinically died”. Even if the process would have succeeded in producing relatively significant architecture there will always be the question what if the process was competently run? What if the most significant architects in the world that were supposed to join the process did join? However there are no need for what if questions, the process failed miserably in every step of the way never produced significant architecture or any kind of architecture. LMDC ended up handing the building process over to the developers in what I interpret as an unconditional surrender.
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