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    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[This is one of my early proposal drawings for a new World Trade Center complex: twin towers like the first, but radically different in form from the sleek, pure Modernism of the original towers--and several floors taller.  The &quot;spiral&quot; form steps down in two-floor increments--moving from the top of one tower, across the connecting bridge, and up to the top of the other tower. (Note: the concept of a connecting bridge was influenced by Kuala Lumpur&#039;s Petronas Towers, which were designed by Cesar Pelli &amp; Associates, who also did the World Financial Center across from the World Trade Center site).<br />
Looking back, I don&#039;t think this proposal is appropriate for the site or for New York.  Symbolically, it&#039;s a powerful gesture; but the site deserves something more wonderful even than this.]]></dcterms:description>
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