Ground Zero proposals hope to resurrect the spirit of Manhattan

SKYSCRAPERS even taller than the 110-storey World Trade Center towers, along with a variety of memorials from twin reflecting pools to a Park of Heroes, were among the proposals unveiled yesterday for rebuilding Ground Zero.

"These are designs not only for our time, but for all time," said John Whitehead, chairman of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation. "They must transcend the present, to speak to our children and to their children to send an immortal message."

The nine proposals the second round of plans to redevelop the site where 2,800 people died in last year's September 11 attack take a variety of approaches to the 16-acre site in lower Manhattan.