Architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, SANAA, Michael Maltzan Architecture, Field Operations, Tom Leader Studio, Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, Rita McBride, Jessica Stockholder, Elyn Zimmerman
"Our proposal covers 16 acres, and in turn, returns those 16 acres twice, by providing within its various horizontal strata, 16 acres of sky gardens and an additional 16 acres of cultural space," the SOM consortium wrote.

Reproduced with permission of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation.