Park 51 by SOMA Architects
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The Islamic Community Center and prayer space is located in Lower Manhattan, a couple of blocks away from Ground Zero.
The 22-story building façade of
interconnected webbing takes root in
the historical fundamentals of
Islamic pattern making.
Due to the strong controversy provoked by the project, the true challenge was to create a piece of architecture that would propose a platform for mediation of social, cultural, urban and political differences in one coherent environment that would equally cater for all parties.