It's A Clamshell...Wait, It's The Rib Bones From A T-Rex, No, It's A Beached Sperm Whale..

New Plans for WTC Show Lots of Stores In a Dramatic Site - October 21, 2005 - The New York Sun - NY Newspaper

"The mall planned for the World Trade Center site will include a Barneys, DKNY, Gap, Express, Charles David, H2O, and Starbucks, according to renderings released yesterday by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey."

Way too west-coast'ish for NYC, and it looks as if the architects wanted to duplicate something of the Sydney Opera House that the lefties of the world ooh and ahh over while Australians just shrug with embrassment.