Architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, SANAA, Michael Maltzan Architecture, Field Operations, Tom Leader Studio, Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, Rita McBride, Jessica Stockholder, Elyn Zimmerman
This consortium of architects, led by Roger Duffy of the venerable urban architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), designed what they termed as "a vertical city in Lower Manhattan, " to which buildings could be added as the commercial real estate market demand increased.

Reproduced with permission of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation.