## Can John Wilson Convince You to Care About Concrete? Filmmaker John Wilson and I are seated in a kitchen on the 35th floor of One World Trade Center, the tallest building in New York. Like most of Manhattan, this tower worships at the altar of concrete, which makes up its core, foundation, and floor slabs. In this structure alone, there’s enough of it to pave more than 4,000 New York City blocks. Concrete—the second-most-used material on earth, just behind water—is also what brought Wilson from his home in Ridgewood, Queens to Lower Manhattan to talk to me today. On September 18, his first…