Here’s the first proposal for rebuilding the World Trade Center site that I’m excited about: a revival of a 1908 design for a massive New York hotel by none other than Antonio Gaudi. It’s not only beautiful (paradoxically futuristic and primitive) but there’s nothing else like it in the world (except for Gaudi’s unfinished masterpiece, the Sagrada Familia cathedral in Barcelona). It would be an instant NY icon. Enough of this sharp-edged modernist banality!