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	Encyclopedia: World Trade Center Memorial
		In spring 2003, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LDMC) launched an international competition to design a memorial at the World Trade Center site to commemorate the lives lost in the September 11, 2001 attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center towers.
		Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC)-World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition
		On January 14, 2004, the final design for the World Trade Center site memorial was revealed in a press conference at Federal Hall in New York.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/World-Trade-Center-Memorial

	World Trade Center on Encyclopedia.com
		Created by the Polish-born American architect Daniel Libeskind, the design includes a sunken memorial space honoring the victims of 9/11 that features an exposed section of the concrete slurry wall, several multi-use buildings, and a public plaza.
		Prior to its destruction, the World Trade Center had been the world's largest commercial complex, home to many businesses, government agencies, and international trade organizations.
		In 2003, after a lengthy design competition, a preliminary plan for rebuilding the site was approved.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/W/WorldT1rd.asp (815 words)

	World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition
		- World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition Jury, from jury statement
		World Trade Center Site Memorial designers Michael Arad and Peter Walker presented the refined memorial design, Reflecting Absence, at a press conference at Federal Hall on Wednesday, January 14, 2004.
		It is a memorial that expresses both the incalculable loss of life and its consoling renewal, a place where all of us come together to remember from generation to generation."
	www.wtcsitememorial.org (100 words)

	Restorewtc
		In the wake of the attacks, a small but vocal minority of the 9/11 victims’ families banded together to demand that the entire 16-acre site of the World Trade Center, which they deemed "sacred ground," be turned into a memorial rid of any commercial development… And they threatened civil disobedience dare anything else be considered.
		The last thing the Times needed was competition, let alone a new World Trade Center-- with fifteen times the office space they offered coming to market at half their price.
		Most of the victims in the World Trade Center were people working on the floors above the airplane impacts, and they were unable to go below the impact areas because the plane crashes cut all stairways off.
	www.restorewtc.com (100 words)

	SkyscraperCity • New York City
		On Nov. 19, 2003, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation announced eight finalists in the competition to design a permanent memorial at the World Trade Center.
		» New World Trade Center Site Concept Designs
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	www.skyscrapercity.info /300.php?id=15 (100 words)

	World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition
		- World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition Jury, from jury statement
		World Trade Center Site Memorial designers Michael Arad and Peter Walker presented the refined memorial design, Reflecting Absence, at a press conference at Federal Hall on Wednesday, January 14, 2004.
		It is a memorial that expresses both the incalculable loss of life and its consoling renewal, a place where all of us come together to remember from generation to generation."
	www.wtcsitememorial.org (100 words)

	World Trade Center - Memorial and Reconstruction Proposal - Plans and photographs of a proposal for the World Trade Center memorial and reconstruction in New York City. With links to other World Trade Center sites.
		Arad's design vision, as presented at the final competition announcement in January, extended beyond the immediate footprints of the former twin towers, and addressed issues at and beyond the perimeter of the 4.7 acre site at south-west quadrant of the WTC superblock -- in other words, the core memorial and surrounding environment.
		In standing up to LMDC with such vigor, Arad is asserting himself in a manner parallel to what Maya Lin experienced in her travails with federal authorities in the early 1980s, when design details for her Vietnam memorial were being poked and hacked from left and right.
		Michael dared to question the suitability of the Libeskind site plan, and simply treated the south-west quadrant of the site as a blank canvas, upon which he sculpted two eloquent voids defined by enormous waterwalls that will create a truly impressive visual and auditory effect for visitors.
	www.planetcast.com /wtc (100 words)

	Alumnus Design Chosen for WTC Memorial
		Michael Arad, who graduated from Georgia Tech in 1999 with a master’s degree in architecture, designed Reflecting Absence: A Memorial at the World Trade Center Site for the international World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition, launched in April 2003.
		Michael Arad, a 1999 graduate of Georgia Tech’s College of Architecture, is the winner of the international World Trade Center Memorial Design Competition, which drew more than 5,000 entries.
		Arad’s entry was chosen as the winning design by a 13-member memorial jury.
	www.gatech.edu /news/item.php?id=228 (100 words)

	Infinite Spire and Fallen Headstones : Archival Site Plans
		When the guidelines for the World Trade Center memorial competition were published, we adapted our plan to fit Daniel Liebeskind's Memory Foundations program.
		The memorial space is bordered by the exposed slurry wall (bathtub) from the World Trade Center foundation.
		In this design, the memorial is located 30 to 70 feet below grade, and is surrounded by the exposed foundation.
	infinitespire.weblogger.com /plans (1152 words)

	CNN.com - Train station at WTC site reopens - Nov. 23, 2003
		The re-opening of the PATH station comes just four days after eight designs were announced as finalists in the World Trade Center memorial competition.
		The first major construction project has been completed at the site of the World Trade Center twin towers.
		The train used for the ride was the last train out of the World Trade Center station on September 11, 2001, and was used as a rescue vehicle to evacuate the last people standing on the old platform before the South Tower collapsed.
	www.cnn.com /2003/US/Northeast/11/23/wtc.train (571 words)

	NYFA Interactive - New York Foundation for the Arts
		A competition will seek a memorial design that remembers the thousands of people who died at the site, the endurance of those who survived, and the courage of those who risked their lives to save others.
		Minoru Yamasaki was the architect for the original World Trade Center complex (1970 to 1977) that was for a quarter of a century an integral component of the New York City skyline.
		In Memory Foundations, the buildings are arrayed so that on September 11 of each year, a ray of sunlight will illuminate the site from 8:46 AM until 10:28 AM as a remembrance of when the original towers were attacked on September 11, 2001.
	www.nyfa.org /archive_detail_c.asp?id=36&fid=6&sid=17&tid=32&date=3/26/2003 (5408 words)

	MSN Encarta - What Makes a Good Memorial?
		Like the attack on the World Trade Center, the Pearl Harbor attack shocked the nation so profoundly that a memorial at the site was inevitable.
		The elder Preis once explained that the structure sags in its center but "stands strong and vigorous at its ends," to express "initial defeat and ultimate victory." The memorial floats on the water, straddling the sunken hull of the USS Arizona, one of the 21 ships that were sunk or damaged in the attack.
		To decide these questions, judges of an international competition spent eight months reviewing more than 5,000 proposed designs.
	encarta.msn.com /list_memorial/What_Makes_a_Good_Memorial.html (5408 words)

	California Alumni Association at UC Berkeley
		The World Trade Center Memorial Foundation has been created to raise funds for the memorial and will be formally launched later this month.
		John C. Whitehead, Chairman of the LMDC said, “A great number of dedicated people have worked hard and long to make this dream a reality, a beautiful and fitting memorial and the centerpiece of the rebuilding and revitalization of Lower Manhattan.
		The performing arts center, the transportation hub, the commercial buildings, will restore culture and commerce - and life - to the site in defiance of terrorism.”
	www.alumni.berkeley.edu /CAA_News_and_Press_Releases/Alum_of_the_Week/Peter_Walker.asp (1045 words)

	Wired New York Forum - Port Authority Architect Shown the Door - NY Newsday article
		Architect Stanton Eckstut was hired by the Port Authority last fall to develop a plan detailing the site's infrastructure, transit and memorial needs, at the same time that the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. was running a design competition for the site.
		The company, Westfield America, which is based in Los Angeles, first expressed its opinion in a March 14 letter to Joseph J. Seymour, the executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns the trade center site.
		About 480,000 square feet of that is below ground, mainly in the concourses linking the site with subway lines and PATH commuter rail lines and in the new transportation hub.
	www.wirednewyork.com /forum/printthread.php?t=3585 (2081 words)

	Salon.com Arts & Entertainment Ground zero: Where the buffalo roam?
		A new film from "Slacker" director Richard Linklater offers a daring, crackpot vision for the World Trade Center memorial: A 16-acre park full of free-roaming bison.
		He says in the film, "I used to ask people, 'Will the trade centers ever speak to one another again?'" His idea is to counter the legacy of competition (what he terms "meek intimacy") and transaction ("bad sex") by creating a conduit for interaction.
		It's in a short film by Richard Linklater (best known as the director of "Slacker" and "Dazed and Confused") that premiered Monday at the Sundance Film Festival, exactly a week after the public hearings on the new WTC site proposals.
	www.salon.com /ent/movies/feature/2003/01/21/linklater_wtc/index.html (1348 words)

	WTC Memorial
		Reflecting Absence vs. the Firemen's Memorial (1912): What We're Missing By Having Landscape Architecture Rather than a Figurative Sculpture as a World Trade Center Memorial
		You wouldn’t have been shocked to find Reflecting Absence (the winning entry for the World Trade Center site) in a park in Poughkeepsie in 1990.
		Reflecting Absence vs. the Firemen's Memorial (1912), Jan. 2004
	www.forgottendelights.com /essays/WTCmemorial.htm (1619 words)

	NEW YORK VOICES : Whose Memorial Is It? Thirteen / WNET New York
		On November 19th, 2003, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation unveiled the eight final designs in the World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition, bringing the largest memorial design competition in history to its final stage.
		Lower Manhattan Development Corporation President Kevin Rampe acknowledges that with so many "agendas pulling at it" the need to strike a balance in the designs has caused difficulty.
		A month later, the eight designs have failed to gather public support and have been roundly criticized in the press.
	www.thirteen.org /nyvoices/features/whosememorial.html (285 words)

	World Trade Center History
		The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation announced in January 2004 that architects Michael Arad and Peter Walker had won a competition to design the memorial to the people who died at the World Trade Center.
		The memorial, Reflecting Absence, will honor those who died at the World Trade Center in two terrorist attacks—on September 11, 2001, and February 26, 1993.
		The skyscraper, estimated to cost $1.5 billion, is expected to be ready for its first occupants by late 2008, while construction on the site in general is expected to last through 2015.
	www.infoplease.com /spot/wtc1.html (285 words)

	BBC NEWS Americas Gaudi design proposed for WTC
		Architectural plans by the late Spanish architect Antoni Gaudi are to be submitted to an international memorial competition for redesigns of New York's former World Trade Center site.
		Gaudi's 95-year-old plans, which were originally designs for a futuristic hotel about the same size as the Empire State building, will be entered into the competition this spring by a group of art historians, architects and enthusiasts of his work.
		Gaudi, born in 1852 and revered as one of Spain's most noted architects, is known for his inventive, flamboyant architecture which changed the face of Barcelona in the early 1900s.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/2687565.stm (905 words)

	World Trade Center Memorial - InformationBlast
		In spring 2003, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LDMC) launched an international competition to design a memorial at the World Trade Center site to commemorate the lives lost in the September 11, 2001 attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center towers.
		On January 14, 2004, the final design for the World Trade Center site memorial was revealed in a press conference at Federal Hall in New York.
		The 5,201 World Trade Center Memorial proposals were authored by people from all walks of life, and reflected a wide range of approaches to the memorial.
	www.informationblast.com /Dual_Memory.html (905 words)

	AllRefer.com - World Trade Center (U.S. History) - Encyclopedia
		In 2003, after a lengthy design competition, a preliminary plan for rebuilding the site was approved.
		Created by the Polish-born American architect Daniel Libeskind, the design includes a sunken memorial space honoring the victims of 9/11 that features an exposed section of the concrete slurry wall, several multi-use buildings, and a public plaza.
		The enormity of the events of September 11, which also involved a similar attack with a hijacked jetliner on the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and the crash in W Pennsylvania of a fourth hijacked plane, galvanized national feeling in the United States, where many watched the events unfold on television.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/W/WorldTrd.html (905 words)

	World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition
		In April 2003, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation launched what became the largest design competition in history.
		Across six continents, from 63 nations and 49 states, 5,201 individuals answered the call to honor all who were killed in terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 and February 26, 1993.
	www.wtcsitememorial.org /submissions.html (65 words)

	World Trade Center History
		The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation announced in January 2004 that architects Michael Arad and Peter Walker had won a competition to design the memorial to the people who died at the World Trade Center.
		In February 2003, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, which was established by Governor Pataki to coordinate the various agencies and advisory committees involved in the rebuilding efforts, chose architect Daniel Libeskind's design for rebuilding the 16-acre site of the former World Trade Center.
		Chase Manhattan Bank chairman David Rockefeller, founder of the development association, and his brother, New York governor Nelson Rockefeller, pushed hard for the project, insisting it would benefit the entire city.
	www.factmonster.com /spot/wtc1.html (912 words)

	The Governors of the Fifty States
		Registration for the World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition To Close on May 29, 2003, 5:00 PM EDT; Over 7,000 Prospective Participants from More than 80 Countries and All Fifty States in the U.S. Have Registered to Date.
		Diffusion and diversity: federalism and the right to die in the fifty states.
		United States violated the rights of fifty-one Mexicans on death row.(Worth Noting)(Brief Article)
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0108908.html (337 words)

	ArchitectureWeek - News - World Trade Center Planning Uncertain - 2002.0807
		At a public meeting on July 16, 2002, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) unveiled six concept plans for redeveloping the site of the World Trade Center.
		ArchitectureWeek - News - World Trade Center Planning Uncertain - 2002.0807
		And New York architect Eli Attia initiated an online petition to take redevelopment out of the hands of "bureaucrats," and conduct an architectural competition to create a "unique, uplifting, and visionary" project.
	www.architectureweek.com /2002/0807/news_1-1.html (454 words)

	Biography of Kevin Slack
		Kevin in honoured to be involved with something as significant as the World Trade Center Site Memorial Design Competition.
		Kevin received his Bachelor of Education in 1995 from Althouse College and he has since taught as an ESL teacher in Korea, as a University professor in Ecuador, and as a Visual Arts and English teacher with the Toronto District School Board.
		Foremost, a writer, Kevin has contributed to Toronto's Now Magazine, was a regular contributor to San Francisco's culture mag, XY Magazine, has been published in a number of poetry anthologies, and has an eBook, Omega, available online.
	www.planetcast.com /wtc/kevinslack.shtml (454 words)

	BBC NEWS World Americas Pools design chosen to mark 9/11
		Reflecting Absence has two sunken shallow pools at its centre and will occupy the site of the World Trade Center's twin towers in New York.
		Architect Michael Arad has won an international competition to design the main memorial for the victims of the attacks of 11 September 2001.
		Arad's design was chosen from among eight finalists by a 13-member jury which held a marathon meeting on Monday in New York.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/3374521.stm (454 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.
		In the absence of this, the memorial proposed by Arad and Walker, with too many masters to please, ends by pleasing no one.
		It duly and rather dully preserves the “footprints” of the two Trade Towers as twin reflecting pools—200-square-foot voids set 30 feet below ground and fed by walls of falling water.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2004/mar2004/wtcc-m20_prn.shtml (454 words)

	World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition: Dual Memory: Statement
		World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition: Dual Memory: Statement
		The memory of an individual and the combined memory of the community as a whole are embodied by the footprints of the former World Trade Center Towers and the new future for the area.
		The space, where the South Tower of the WTC once stood, is devoted to the shared loss of a community, a city, a country, and the world.
	www.wtcsitememorial.org /fin4.html (454 words)

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