A NEW WORLD TRADE CENTER: Design Proposals from the World's Leading Architects

Many of these four dozen or so designs solicited by New York gallery owner Protetch may be fanciful rather than practical—from Acconci Studio's "building full of holes" ("preshot, pre-blown-out, preexploded") to Jakob + MacFarlane's "light and sensual" design of long, thin towers resembling fingers and symbolizing "peaceful aspiration"—but they bring a freedom of imagination whose need was surely demonstrated by the paucity of creativity shown in the half dozen designs for rebuilding the World Trade Center site that were unveiled recently. (On sale Sept. 3)