Take a look at WTC’s new look
Lolita Harper
The Super Bowl has been an American tradition for 37 years, but in
the past couple years one topic has evoked even more passion: the
World Trade Center attacks.
On Sunday, both will be on display in the city as the Orange
County Museum of Art hosts a lecture by New York Gallery owner Max
Protech about the future of the World Trade Center site, from a wide
variety of inventive view points. Protech, who wrote “A New World
Trade Center,” documented an exhibition showcasing design proposals
from some of the world’s top architects.
Brian Langston, spokesman for the Orange County Museum of Art,
said he is thrilled to host a lecturer such as Protech. Newport-Mesa
residents are in for an extremely inspired and innovative
presentation, he said.
“He brought in a wide variety of artists to weigh in on what might
be done at that sight and opened it up to another level of
creativity,” Langston said. “Some of the designs are wild and crazy,
and that is the nature of creativity.”
Protech, who specializes in architectural drawings and represents
some of the industry’s strongest minds, was inspired to create this
project after the East Coast attacks. His project includes some very
early design proposals that helped inspire crucial community dialogue
and spirit that has helped New Yorkers regain their footing, Langston
said.
The lecture will not only address Protech’s project but the
political issues that have surfaced around the rebuilding process at
Ground Zero.
People can conceivably catch the poignant lecture about curing
America’s scar and still get back in time to catch most of the
Oakland Raiders versus the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the Super Bowl,
Langston said.
“I would imagine there will be a slightly different demographic
than for the Super Bowl,” he joked.
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