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	Reflecting Absence
		Hence even though the competition for the design of the World Trade Center memorial ended in 2004, I'm still distressed by the choice of Reflecting Absence as the winner.
		Reflecting Absence's main elements are two large reflecting pools, a couple dozen trees, and lists of victims' names.
		If you share my dismay at Reflecting Absence and want something more expressive at the WTC site, send letters to Mayor Bloomberg, Governor Spitzer, and the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation.
	www.forgottendelights.com /NYCsculpture/ReflectingOnReflectingAbsence.htm (1099 words)

	Reflecting Absence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Reflecting Absence is the winning proposal for the World Trade Center site memorial.
		Reflecting Absence was announced as the winning design on January 6, 2004.
		The primary feature of the design is two recesses, thirty feet in depth, in the precise footprints of the twin towers that were destroyed on September 11, 2001.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Reflecting_Absence (425 words)

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		When Reflecting Absence was announced on Tuesday as the winner of the six-month competition, there was another name: Peter Walker of Berkeley, Calif., who has 45 years of experience in the teaching and practice of landscape architecture.
		The success of Reflecting Absence — and the ultimate failure of Garden of Lights and Passages of Light: Memorial Cloud designs — was attributed to many factors by six people closely connected to the process, who spoke to reporters on the condition that their names and their affiliations not be divulged.
		The final vote between Reflecting Absence and Passages of Light was not unanimously in favor of the concept by Mr.
	www.voicesofsept11.org /wtc/archive/2004/010804b.php (1078 words)

	WTC Site Memorials - Reflecting Absence
		A pair of reflective pools, their surfaces broken by large voids meant to represent the absence caused by the attacks, marks the location of the towers' footprints.
		As visitors move through the sloped buildings that border the pools, they experience a gradual move from cool darkness and silence to slivers of daylight and the sound of falling water, until they are standing in front of a curtain of water, through which they can see the victims’ names.
		Reflecting Absence is meant to be a meditative space and includes an alcove where visitors can light a candle, the unidentified-remains area for family members only, as well as pine trees at street-level that provide shade for visitors.
	www.newyorkmetro.com /news/articles/wtc/proposals/memorials/6/1.htm (115 words)

	E-mail Archive - Families of September 11
		Until we see the final plan, what we know about “Reflecting Absence” is from the original submittal and some of the recent disclosures that have been made about changes from the initial plan.
		The design for ``Reflecting Absence'' was originally submitted by Michael Arad, an architect with the city's Housing Authority.
		The first is that in choosing Reflecting Absence, the jury has put the task of memorializing 9/11 front and center.
	www.familiesofseptember11.org /actionalert.aspx?alert_id=102 (2677 words)

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		Designed by Michael Arad, Reflecting Absence is the winning entry in the competition to design a memorial to the victims of 9/11.
		If I favored Reflecting Absence over the other finalists, it is partly because the minimalist design encouraged the maximum range of individual reflection.
		Reflecting Absence puts us in mind of societies where birth and death were understood to be two aspects of life.
	www.voicesofsept11.org /wtc/archive/2004/011504.php (1256 words)

	Boston.com / News / Nation / Reflecting Pools Chosen as WTC Memorial (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A design featuring two reflecting pools where the World Trade Center towers once stood was chosen as a memorial to the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, officials said on Tuesday.
		NEW YORK (Reuters) - A design featuring two reflecting pools where the World Trade Center towers once stood was chosen as a memorial to the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, officials said on Tuesday.
		The design called "Reflecting Absence" was selected from eight finalists by a 13-member jury after a marathon meeting on Monday, said a spokeswoman for the Lower Manhattan Development Corp., which is overseeing rebuilding the devastated site.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2004/01/07/reflecting_pools_chosen_as_wtc_memorial_1073475630 (623 words)

	The Big Apple: Reflecting Absence (World Trade Center Memorial)
		This memorial proposes a space that resonates with the feelings of loss and absence that were generated by the destruction of the World Trade Center and the taking of thousands of lives on September 11, 2001 and February 26, 1993.
		The surface of the memorial plaza is punctuated by the linear rhythms of rows of deciduous trees, forming informal clusters, clearings and groves.
		More than a year after “Reflecting Absence” was unveiled in New York City, area residents are getting their first look at the planned memorial to victims of the 2001 terrorist attack, to be built where the World Trade Center stood.
	www.barrypopik.com /article/860/reflecting-absence-world-trade-center-memorial (1427 words)

	In the absence of an explanation: the World Trade Center memorial site
		Reflecting Absence, by Michael Arad and Peter Walker, was selected as the design for New York City’s World Trade Center Site memorial this past January, after what was billed as “the largest design competition in history” by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC), which sponsored it.
		It has been pushed through in the absence of a full and independent investigation of the 9/11 terror attacks, as if the facts and roots of the event being memorialized were already known and clarified.
		Ironically, Reflecting Absence, which promises to remain a large, uncomfortable void, like an irritated wound that won’t heal, is an unintentionally fitting emblem of the failure to adequately account for the terror attacks of September 11, 2001.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2004/mar2004/wtcc-m20_prn.shtml (1916 words)

	'Reflecting Absence' to honor Sept. 11 victims - U.S. News - MSNBC.com
		‘Reflecting Absence,’ pictured in an artist’s rendering, features two reflecting pools of water on the footprints of the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers.
		NEW YORK - “Reflecting Absence,” created by New York designer Michael Arad, was chosen Tuesday for the World Trade Center memorial.
		The memorial, consisting of two reflecting pools and a paved stone field, will remember all of the victims of the Sept. 11 attack, including those killed at the Pentagon, in Pennsylvania and aboard the hijacked airliners.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/3887596 (724 words)

	The Chosen Memorial Design: Reflecting Absence (Gotham Gazette, January 7, 2004)
		Reflecting Absence includes two pools submerged about 30 feet below street level in the middle of a large open plaza at street level.
		Reflecting Absence, a design that most prominently features two sunken pools where the Twin Towers stood, has been chosen for the memorial at the site of the World Trade Center.
		The apparent randomness reflects the haphazard brutality of the deaths and allows for flexibility in the placement of names of friends and relatives in ways that permit for meaningful adjacencies; for example, siblings who perished together at the site could have their names listed side by side.
	www.gothamgazette.com /article/feature-commentary/20040107/202/825 (1281 words)

	World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition: Reflecting Absence: Statement
		This memorial proposes a space that resonates with the feelings of loss and absence that were generated by the destruction of the World Trade Center and the taking of thousands of lives on September 11, 2001 and February 26, 1993.
		The surface of the memorial plaza is punctuated by the linear rhythms of rows of deciduous trees, forming informal clusters, clearings and groves.
		The haphazard brutality of the attacks is reflected in the arrangement of names, and no attempt is made to impose order upon this suffering.
	www.wtcsitememorial.org /fin7.html (771 words)

	"Reflecting Absence" Refined
		In the end, the names will be listed in random order on parapets surrounding each of the two reflecting pools -- with shields bearing the insignias of their agencies beside the names of rescue workers -- behind which a wall of water will cascade down from the voids at street level.
		Beneath the reflecting pool marking the place where the north tower stood -- at bedrock level some 80 feet below the plaza -- there will be an open space, looking up through the pool, through which the sky will be visible.
		after "Reflecting Absence" was selected as a memorial competition finalist, was also clear in the refined design revealed Wednesday.
	www.lowermanhattan.info /news/reflecting_absence_refined_30121.asp (898 words)

	A City's Search for Rememberance: The World Trade Center Memorial Competition
		The enthusiastic response arose from the overwhelming nature of the September 11, 2001, tragedy and the world's reaction to it; it also reflected the LMDC's decision to open the competition to "anyone from anywhere" over the age of eighteen who could afford the $25 submission fee.
		Other family members criticized the absence of tower remnants, such as the twisted remains of Fritz Koenig's sculpture Sphere, once the centerpiece of the WTC plaza, or the shards of the south tower's facade that rose so symbolically from the
		Reflecting Absence fills the two footprints with reflective pools that are submerged thirty feet below street level in the middle of a large plaza.
	www.worldandi.com /newhome/public/2004/april/arpub1.asp (2188 words)

	Worldandnation: Sept. 11 memorial pick is 'Reflecting Absence'
		NEW YORK - A design consisting of two reflecting pools and a large grove of trees was chosen for the World Trade Center memorial after an eight-month competition that drew more than 5,000 entries from around the world, officials announced Tuesday.
		The "Reflecting Absence" memorial, created by designers Michael Arad and Peter Walker, was chosen by a 13-member jury of artists, architects and civic and cultural leaders.
		The development group said a revised version of the memorial will be unveiled next week, with significant changes that add trees and greenery around the footprints and expose the slurry wall, the last surviving piece of the trade center.
	www.sptimes.com /2004/01/07/Worldandnation/Sept_11_memorial_pick.shtml (635 words)

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		But even the changed version of the original entry, Reflecting Absence, will continue to evolve, said Vartan Gregorian, the spokesman for his fellow competition jurors.
		By allowing absence to speak for itself, the designers have made the power of these empty footprints the memorial.
		Arad maintains that the haphazard brutality of the attacks is reflected in the arrangement of names, and that no attempt is made to impose order upon this suffering.
	www.yu-build.com /news/show.php?broj=20 (913 words)

	Reflecting Absence - The Memorial
		Memorial Hall, filling the space between the reflecting pools, will offer a vast gathering place where visitors can sit and reflect and events can be held.
		These schematics expand upon the early renderings unveiled when “Reflecting Absence” was first selected and will contribute to the development of working drawings, which will set precise dimensions, specify materials, and account for the engineering necessary to make two vast waterfalls function.
		December 16, 2004: Expanding on the conceptual renderings unveiled when “Reflecting Absence” was first selected, the LMDC released detailed schematic designs of the 9/11 memorial.
	jeanne_and_trev.tripod.com /america/id67.html (1188 words)

	Project Rebirth: Rebuild: Architecture; Memorial Design Details
		In January of 2004, a 13-member jury selected Reflecting Absence by Michael Arad and Peter Walker as the design for the World Trade Center Memorial.
		Elements of the design include a large ceremonial one-and-a-half acre clearing on the plaza level and a gallery on the second memorial level where the names of those lost on September 11, 2001 and February 26, 1993 can be viewed while water cascades behind them.
		Michael Arad said, "We have taken the powerful concepts on which the design is based and working together and listening to countless numbers of people to whom the success of the memorial is of the utmost importance, we have refined the design and reinforced its intent.
	www.projectrebirth.org /rebuild/architecture/memDetails.html (525 words)

	Victims' families object to winning World Trade Centre memorial - www.smh.com.au
		"Reflecting Absence" by Michael Arad was the winning memorial design from 5201 proposals from around the world.
		A design consisting of a pair of submerged reflecting pools fed by waterfalls in a field of stones has won a competition for a World Trade Centre memorial to honour those killed in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
		A 13-member selection panel chose "Reflecting Absence" by Michael Arad, a New York designer who described himself as "overwhelmed", ending a competition that began in April and attracted 5201 entries worldwide.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/01/07/1073437350280.html?from=storyrhs (451 words)

	CTV.ca - Reflecting pool design chosen for WTC memorial - CTV News, Shows and Sports -- Canadian Television
		— A design consisting of two reflecting pools and a paved stone field was chosen Tuesday for the World Trade Center memorial after an eight-month competition that drew more than 5,000 entries from around the world.
		The Reflecting Absence memorial, created by city designer Michael Arad, was chosen by a 13-member jury of artists, architects and civic and cultural leaders.
		The reflecting pools that are the centrepiece of the winning memorial mark the footprints of the World Trade Center towers.
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/print/CTVNews/1073442063648_68851263?hub=World&subhub=PrintStory (523 words)

	creativematch: Winning Design for World Trade Center Memorial Unveiled (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Reflecting Absence the winning design is by Michael Arad a New York based architect.
		Reflecting Absence has created a barrage of controversy with victims famillies and there have been calls for the entire plan to be scrapped and new plans drawn up.
		The design features two large reflecting pools sunken 30 feet deep in the foundations of the twin towers, covering almost an acre.
	www.creativematch.co.uk /viewnews?88979 (360 words)

	Washington Week . Student Voices \| PBS
		Etched around each pool will be the names of those men and women who lost their lives on Sept. 11 and the names of the people who died during the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.
		The reflecting pools, park and museum will occupy 4.7 acres of the 16 acres left vacant after the attacks.
		Despite the opposing views, St. Pierre said the reflecting pools are a fitting tribute to the terrorist attacks.
	www.pbs.org /weta/washingtonweek/voices/200401/0129tribute.html (452 words)

	Printer Friendly Version - Sept. 11 victims' kin slam memorial plan (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The relatives believe the planned memorial, Reflecting Absence, would not properly honor their loved ones.
		Reflecting Absence has been praised by Gov. Pataki, Mayor Bloomberg and architecture critics.
		One of the protesters' chief complaints is that the "footprints" of the two towers would be covered with two reflecting pools.
	www.nydailynews.com /boroughs/v-pfriendly/story/307723p-263315c.html (316 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Nation > America's War on Terror -- Reflecting pool design chosen for World Trade ...
		"Reflecting Absence: A Memorial at the World Trade Center Site" by Michael Arad is one of the three finalists for a World Trade Center memorial.
		NEW YORK – A design consisting of two reflecting pools and a paved stone field has been chosen for the World Trade Center memorial after an eight-month international competition that drew more than 5,000 entries, The Associated Press has learned.
		The "Reflecting Absence" memorial, created by city designer Michael Arad, was chosen by a 13-member jury of artists, architects and civic and cultural leaders after months of intense deliberation.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/nation/terror/20040106-1357-attacks-memorial.html (545 words)

	GUSTO: Just Build It: Reflections on the WTC Memorial
		But the jury picked "Reflecting Absence." Reportedly, this was due to Maya Lin's influence on her fellow jurors.
		There are obvious flaws in "Reflecting Absence." I'd like to see how those curtains of water hold up in the sub-freezing weather we've been having.
		And "Reflecting Absence" is nothing if not an attempt at a solution to a very, very complex problem.
	www.dailygusto.com /news/january/wtc-012204.html (1150 words)

	RealEstateJournal \| Winner Chosen For WTC Memorial
		NEW YORK -- A pair of reflective pools marking the footprints of the destroyed World Trade Center's Twin Towers are at the heart of a design selected yesterday as the Ground Zero memorial to victims of the 2001 terror attacks.
		The design, "Reflecting Absence," was selected from among 5,200 submissions that were vetted by a 13-member jury that included Maya Lin, architect and designer of the Vietnam Veterans' memorial, and the wife of a victim of the attacks.
		Two reflecting pools, bordered by sloped buildings, are fed by a constant stream of water cascading down the walls that enclose them.
	realestatejournal.com /propertyreport/.../20040107-starkman.html (414 words)

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