Architect: United Architects: Reiser Umemoto, Foreign Office Architects, Greg Lynn FORM, Imaginary Forces, Kevin Kenon Architect, UN Studio
United's design received mixed reviews from critics. "In terms of pure visual impact ... [it] ranks at the top of the list, " wrote Nicolai Ouroussoff in The Los Angeles Times, while Martin Filler described the plan as "the most frightening of the lot," in The New Republic.

Reproduced with permission of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation.