The truth be told, the World Trade Center was neither a very good work of architecture nor a very successful piece of urbanism. Its shortcomings were somewhat mitigated by the westward and southward expansion of the World Financial Center and Battery Park City during the 1980s.
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Martin Filler was American writer. Martin Myles Filler is an American architecture critic. He is best known for his long essays on modern architecture that have appeared in The New York Review of Books since 1985, and which served as the basis for his 2007 book Makers of Modern Architecture, published by New York Review Books. Read more on Wikipedia →

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  • Work — The value of effort, discipline, and meaningful labour
  • Truth — Meditations on honesty, authenticity, and the search for truth

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