It is looking more and more like a new skyscraper, taller than the WTC, and possibly even taller than the tallest building in the world (in Malaysia) is what will be built.

This is an excerpt from a recent article on it (Dec 18 02) from the CBS website:

"The nine new proposals — the second round of plans to redevelop the site where more than 2,800 people died in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack — take a variety of approaches to the 16-acre site in lower Manhattan.

Four of the plans proposed creating the tallest building in the world, topping Malaysia's 1,483-foot Petronas Twin Towers. One recommended a 2,100-foot skyscraper, while another called for a 1,776-foot tower topped with a spire.

"People want to go back up in the sky in some way. There's a sense that we have to heal the skyline," Paul Goldberger, one of the architects, told CBS.

The plans for rebuilding the site and surrounding neighborhood came from seven teams of architects from Berlin, London, Amsterdam, Tokyo, New York and Los Angeles, and were selected from 407 submissions. A choice is expected by Jan. 31.

A first group of plans, released in July, was derided as boring and overstuffed with office space."