The 1992 "big clock" design was the competition-winning entry by Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates and Anderson/Schwartz Architects. Unanimously selected from among the six entries that included Rafael Vinoly (whose scheme was advocated by the New York Times architecture critic), SOM and Aldo Rossi, the scheme's iconoclastic design drew immediate praise and derision from the public. The 120-foot diameter clock (actually an electronic depiction of a clock) would have been the largest clock in the world, enabling the relatively modest terminal building to achieve an appropriately civic presence when viewed from the harbor against the backdrop of Lower Manhattan. The barrel-vaulted Waiting Room, five feet taller than the similarly sized Grand Central Station in midtown, incorporated stylized steel truss columns and arches and an electronic screen at the end of the hall, intended to be a publicly-accessible forum for communication, art and real-time broadcasting.