Towering Ambitions: Dan Cruickshank at Ground Zero

Genre

documentary film

Country

United Kingdom

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How it feels

Dan Cruickshank tells the story of the architectural competition to rebuild Ground Zero after the 9/11 attacks. He describes the process and the ambition behind the project.

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What happens

Towering Ambitions: Dan Cruickshank at Ground Zero is a 2003 BBC documentary film in which art historian and television presenter Dan Cruickshank tells the story of the architectural competition to rebuild Ground Zero following the 9/11 attacks, which The New Yorker architecture critic Paul Goldberger describes as "the architectural commission of a lifetime." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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