September 9 in New York: Ground Zero Plus 25

It has been twenty-five years since the terror attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center towers, killing more than 2,700 people and rending the landscape of Lower Manhattan. The rebuilding effort that followed began with an outpouring of proposals from the world’s most prominent architects—some mournful or pragmatic, others wildly speculative—before running aground in political acrimony. Over time the process righted itself, at least to a degree, with a memorial and museum, office towers, a transit hub, and a performing-arts center filling the site.

Now that the rebuilding process is essentially complete, what lessons can New York City draw from this twenty-five-year saga? What does the site as it stands today suggest about the trajectory of Lower Manhattan, governance in New York City and Albany, and architecture culture? A quarter of a century on, is Ground Zero a neighborhood, a mourning zone, or some uneasy combination of the two?

Join Punch List, n+1, and New York Review of Architecture in discussion about the rebuilding process—and the paths not taken—at the World Trade Center.

Featuring:

⬤Andy Battle, writer, editor, and teacher

⬤ Justin Beal, artist and writer

⬤ Cosmo Bjorkenheim, LJ Frezza, and Anny Oberlink, filmmakers

⬤ Christopher Hawthorne, Punch List and Yale School of Architecture

⬤ Mark Krotov, n+1

⬤ Samuel Medina, New York Review of Architecture

⬤ Lynne Sagalyn, author and professor emerita at Columbia Business School

⬤ Rose Salane, conceptual artist and curator

⬤ Nikil Saval, Pennsylvania state senator and former editor of n+1

⬤ Carla Swickerath, partner at Studio Libeskind

⬤ Audrey Wollen, critic

⬤ Sharon Zukin, documentary filmmaker and professor emerita of sociology at Brooklyn College and at the CUNY Graduate Center

To RSVP, click here.

Where: The Great Hall at Cooper Union, 7 East 7th Street, New York, New York, 10003

When: September 9, 7:00 p.m., drinks at a nearby bar with the participants to follow.

As a subscriber to Punch List, you get discounted tickets for you and your plus-ones.

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