Memory Tholos (#446639)
by Planetcast / William Stratas, Kevin Slack, Kent Ford; Toronto ON, Canada
With historical foundation drawn from tholos mounds of Mycenae and other city states of ancient Greece, we create a sheltered Memory Hall of massive scale. Visitors enter and exit the ovoid tholos within two sets of 'zig-zag' channels, which evoke 'horizontal stairways' and simulate the two-way flow of rescuers and the rescued, ascending and descending the escape stairways, during the final 60-90 minutes of the twin towers' existence. A massive gold-clad steel sculpture called 'Singularity Tree' ascends from a point deep within the base of the tholos, bursting forth through the open peak and points high toward the tip of Freedom Tower: Sacrificial ground connects to sky above, and heaven speaks to wounded earth below.
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Reincarnated WTC Icons In Glass
by Belgorod Associates; New York NY, USA
Identities of the victims are permanently etched onto individual seamless glass panels that comprise this allegorical, vertical structure that immortalizes remnants of the WTC facade, the American flag recovered at Ground Zero and provides a permanent, sheltered resting place for unidentified remains.
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Restore Ground Zero (#656340)
by Roger Rowlett & Michael Dickerson; New York NY, USA
Restoration of the site as much as possible to the September 11, 2001. The two piles are to be restored to their LIDAR mapped heights of 60 feet and each capped with massive flags. Markers will be placed at the approximate GPS locations where the victims fell. The hills will be grass covered. Strategic ruins on the north and east walls of the North Tower and the south and west walls of the South Tower are to be restored. The eternal flame, fountain and Sphere is to be placed a Ground Zero between the two ruins. The unidentified bodies will be entombed beneath it. Family can access it through a sunken Tranquility Garden (with waterfall and pool) on the site of 3 WTC on the southwest corner). The "911 Trail" takes visitors to the sites in chronological order.
To Confront and To Console
by Richard Pedranti & Helen Schulman; Pennsylvania, USA
Endurance Memorial
by Stuart Gosswein; Washington DC, USA
Majestic testament with sanctuary, fountain, observation decks, creating splendor, comfort and awe for visitors.
Celestial Requiem
by Christian Kendrick; North Carolina, USA
11-rayed star pattern of 42 pillars, marking in celestial time the moment the attacks began.
Crystal Memorial
by Raymond Chai; Sydney, Australia
Memorial complex surrounding a 400-foot tall crystal memorial.
Five Gates (#350572)
by Matthew McDonnell & Chris Gontowski; Kew Gardens NY, USA
5 steel gates rising from a Memorial Fountain, supporting a broken stair with statuary; reflecting pools within footprints.
A Golden Tree (#409132)
by Jean Luc Comperat & Minouche Waring; New York NY, USA
80-foot golden tree with 3,022 leaves and 92 flags; enclosed skylight space harboring boat-like structure for unidentified remains.
Infinite Spire & Fallen Headstones (not accepted into competition: #446054)
by Brian McConnell, Robert Becker, Hunter Gatewood, Luke Stewart; San Francisco, CA / Gilles Tran; Paris, France
Originally titled "Broken Dream", this proposal consists of two elements. The focus of the site is a tall, metallic spire that is shaped by trigonometric equations to project the illusion of infinite height when viewed from the footprints. The spire is surrounded by fields of randomly arranged headstones within each footprint. The superposition of these elements forms a physical memory of what happened. The spire reminds visitors of what once was and what may be. The headstones individually recall the life, death and actions of a person, while as a group, they project an image of collapse and disintegration. The memorial is also a metaphor for the future and confronts the viewer with questions about the promise and fragility of modern civilization.
An Invocation to Harmony (#683077)
by Pedro Flecha; Lima, Peru
Skeletal stainless steel pyramid, memorial wall and meditation pathwalk.
Permanent Sunshine (#832897)
by Andrew Wilson; Pasadena CA, USA
Lighted sphere with protruding cones; fountains with WTC facade remnants in footprints.
Mirrored Atrium
by Ray Keim and Ricky Seabra
Large mirrored atrium that creates an illusion of the twin towers extending into infinity. Another version is here.
Mists of Avalon (#706861)
by Christopher Verdesi; New York NY, USA
Fire Stair Monument and underground space set amid Glastonbury Abbey-inspired WTC facade ruins.
Untitled (#656431)
by Christopher Schroeer-Heiermann
An empty plaza at street level formed by a veil of names which is suspended over a map of the world on the lower level
Twin Piers
by Fred Bernstein; New York NY, USA
The controversial memorial proposal that is rumored to have been named as the "ninth finalist" before being disqualified, and is the subject of litigation between Bernstein and LMDC.
Untitled (#089838)
by Cheong Yong; San Francisco CA, USA
A ring of triangular columns which commemorate the heroic acts of 9/11 rise out of the South Tower footprint pool. These columns carved with heroic gestures, surround an island where other columns stand, engraved with the names of the victims.
A glass-domed, triangular tomb inspired by the ceremonially folded flag of military funerals, rests on another pool over the other tower's footprint, in a grotto-like setting under a building proposed by the architect, Daniel Libeskind.
The wall along Liberty Street, the Liberty Wall, will have a sculpted wreath of 50 bronze stars and white stone stripes about 30 feet in height, on concrete embedded with clumps of fused glass shards. This interpretation of Old Glory allows the attacked nation's symbol of freedom to be brought into the memorial site for all to reflect on why the tragedy occurred. The viewer can decide whether the stars and stripes are sinking into or emerging from the background. The glass shards glinting in the light will be a reminder of the destruction.
New Glory...Transcend!
by Charles Gray, Scottsdale, AZ; Michael Harp, Califon, NJ; Jason Ploszaj, Tempe, AZ; David B. Smith, Laguna Beach, CA
Old Glory transcends to New Glory through world wide participation.
Resurrection
by Frank Young, Architect; Perth, Western Australia
My concept has always been one of a Memorial building that signifies the shattered pieces of buildings coming together to create a new and upward looking building from the destruction of 9-11. The building's footprint is a 5 pointed star (the star on the American flag) which also naturally creates a pentagon within its form as a tribute to those who died at the Pentagon. This building is mostly surrounded by water in a pool in the South Tower footprint to create a sense of serenity.
In the North Tower footprint is a building (also surrounded by water) for the Unidentified Remains of the Dead on which stands a group of statues representative of those who died (e.g. a fireman, a policeman, office workers, children etc). They are looking over to the Memorial building with pride, essentially saying "Look at what they've done for us".
The use of remnants of the original towers is mentioned in the text and I think would be a very important element in reinforcing the concept of resurrection from the destruction. These pieces would work towards the main building and would become more upright the closer they got to it. A tangle of these pieces could be placed on the Unidentified Remains building and the statues could be almost emerging from that tangle.
This special animation has been produced by the company which created the computer graphics for my entry and is able to be viewed at three levels: small, medium and large. I strongly suggest large as it is bigger and much higher resolution. The text is taken straight from my board and has not been adjusted since its submission.
The Soaring Eagle (#409461)
by Jay Jimenez; Staten Island NY, USA
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Memory Images (#790491)
by Steven C. Laubach; Tallahassee FL, USA
Preserving the indelible images of 9-11, with traditional and non-traditional memorial elements.
The Walk for World Peace (#790393)
by Carol Allen and Lynn Jericho
REMEMBERING THE PAST / IMAGINING THE FUTURE - Ground Zero is the turning point of our times. As the turning point it must memorialize the tragic and horrific ending to the lives of many noble individuals, and a way of life, and it must inspire the beginning of a new sense of the future and the role each individual soul plays in shaping our world. A visit to Ground Zero should be both a passive reflective and commemorative event and it also should be a profound, moving and dynamic experience , leaving the heart and soul of every visitor altered and awakened with new meaning and purpose.
Memorial Bridge (#656954)
by Robert Jarvik, MD; New York NY, USA
A memorial chapel, patterned after the dome of the Pantheon, rises within the sunken memorial site. On its roof, a map of the world has the continents outlined with stone borders amid the flower beds covering the land. The North-East United States has a colored terrazzo map that shows the flight paths of the hijacked aircraft and points of impact. Parts of the tower footprints, paved in white marble to express the void the footprints represent, wrap up over the globe. A suspension bridge, reaching sixty feet above the footprints, joins one footprint to the other. The cables are supported by a mirrored titanium obelisk, as tall as the Washington Monument, and rooted 225 feet deep into the bedrock of ground zero, one foot deep for each year of our nationŐs history until the year of 9/11. Thousands of life-size graphite epoxy figures, each with a sealed time capsule containing personal tributes to a victim, are mounted on the bridge cables in a fluid undulating array streaming high into the sky. The sheer number of figures and the height they reach astonishes the visitor with the magnitude of our loss, and relates the human scale to the huge towers. The chapel dome has a circular opening in its center, like the oculus of the Pantheon. Below this opening, a reflecting pool within the chapel surrounds the tomb of the unknowns. An honor guard with members of each of our nationŐs uniformed services as well as New York Police and Firemen, stands at attention around the tomb. At intervals, a changing-of-the-guard ceremony is conducted. The area of the bridge cables where the figures are mounted is a triangle 500 feet high by 300 feet wide, almost two acres standing vertical, visible from the harbor and city. On this surface, a million tiny colored lights are arranged as the pixels of an immense video display. The pixels are widely separated, and the image is delicate and airy, not bright, so it is best visible after dark. At night, images of doves in flight and other birds ascend to represent the soaring American spirit. Copyright © 2003 by Robert Jarvik MD
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Untitled (#683115)
by Julian Williams & Natalia Zotkina Williams; Stamford CT, USA
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Eclectic Fusion (#832061)
by Mike Vieten; USA
As a colleague of many of the fallen heroes, and a former naval nuclear submarine officer, I've tried to bring a very personal and thought provoking approach to my design - the goal to develop/integrate a design that tells what happened, what followed and the true grit and resilience of this country and its citizens, particularly in the most difficult of times, both now and to come.
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Footsteps, Into The Light (#446574)
by Paul Byron Crane, ASLA; Seattle WA, USA
NOTE: Original image of proposal board was lost by submitter; no copies are available. The full-text description from the board is presented below.
Life is a very precious gift of wonder. Its intensity begins at birth, flowering in childhood, to the invincibility of post adolescence to the wisdom of middle age and life's full appreciation in the later years. You see, in every breath we take, in all we feel throughout the seasons of life, perceived as good or bad, we are alive and we all share this experience of living in the same space and time. Humans and all other creatures are part of this magical web we call life, a time that can never be replaced. My concept is to physically embellish the Memorial Mission Statement and Memorial Program, thus, devoted to those whose souls were stolen from this web through either no fault of their own or through acts of bravery to try and save those souls who could be saved from those acts of thievery on 9/11/01 and on 2/25/93.
Individual Recognition
1. Each individual who died directly or indirectly, because of the attacks will be remembered with a brass casting of representative shoe prints. The bronze castings will be set in a topping course within the footprints of WTC 1 & 2 and the open space outside the WTC footprints.
2. The shoeprints will be gender, age, and career specific. Specifically, children will be smaller and gender specific, office workers will be gender specific to atypical office attire shoes, fire boots for NYFD, atypical footwear for NYPD and other workers will be represented by their specific representative footwear.
3. Their names will be placed in raised letters on each shoe print. This will enable those left to make a brass rubbing and/or stand in the shoe print of the victim.
4. All those who perished in WTC 1 or WTC 2, either in the offices, in the aircraft or trying to save those souls in WTC 1 or WTC 2 will have their shoe prints within the boundaries of the WTC 1 & WTC 2 footprint.
5. Those who died outside the WTC 1 & 2 buildings will have their shoeprints in the open space outside the WTC 1 & 2 footprints. This includes those who acted in bravery, victims of 2/25/93, victims of the aircraft crash in Pennsylvania and the victims at the aircraft crash into the Pentagon.
6. Victims will be grouped by, company, NYFD battalion, NYPD precient, daycare or whatever specific WTC group association they belonged to when they died.
7. All the shoeprints will face the necropolis site where the unidentified remains will be located. The necropolis is located in the center, the heart, of the site. This proposed because any one and/or all of the victims could be in the necropolis.
8. In the four corners of both WTC 1 & 2 footprints there will be located focused spotlights that will form a Pyramid with the apex of the light columns matching the original height of each building.
Provide Space for Contemplation
1. Two places will be designed for quiet visitation and contemplation, the slurry wall abyss and the access area leading to inner chamber of the necropolis (the inner chamber of the necropolis design is not considered part of the memorial competition).
2. The necropolis area will consist of a covered inner core that will be the portico and passageway (similar to a Neolithic/Megalithic tomb) for the use of victims' visitors. This will allow quiet visitation and contemplation. Surrounding the inner core of unidentified remains will be a stone column circle that will be a waiting area for the victims' families prior to going into this passageway leading to the tombs chamber. This wall of stone columns made from the stone quarried from each of the 92 countries, will be an area for the families and loved ones of victims to gather.
3. The walls of the stone column circle, built of stone and/or other natural organic material from the 92 countries of the victims, will be 30 feet tall and up-lighted at night.
4. The stone column circle walls will have the ability to hold artifacts, memorials, pictures; mementoes left by the families and loved one of the victims.
5. The Porticos of the stone column circle and tomb entrances will be aligned to allow reflected light from the wedges of light shine down on these portico entrances on 9/11. This will be accomplished by a totem pole, located north of the porticos, which will reflect sunlight from the 9/11 wedges of light and focus the light on the porticos of the middle and inner walls. This is a direct tie to the Studio Daniel Libeskinds design.
6. The slurry wall abyss will be an area of quiet contemplation. The glass wall, within the competition boundaries, will have the history of the events of 9/11/03 and 2/25/93 etched on the vertical plane of glass allowing for viewing the wall and reading history.
Convey Historic Authenticity
1. Two statues will be commissioned and placed as per my proposed site plan.
2. The world famous picture (reproduced replica of the US postage stamp is illustrated as an example) of the three NYFD raising a borrowed American Flag from the debris from the roof antenna will be a life size scale commissioned sculpture that will serve as the memorials flag pole.
3. A life size sculpture of children playing and running towards the waterfall will be commissioned as a remembrance of the most innocent and vulnerable of lives stolen. It is through our children's, children's, children that the events and our hope for mankind will not be forgotten.
Create a Unique and Powerful Setting
1. commissioned totem pole will rise from the site. The totem pole will have mirrors and lenses that will catch and reflect the wedge of light, on the 9/11/03 date.
2. The refracted light from a totem pole will shine on and through the alignment of the inner wall portico that will lead to the inner area for private visitation and reflection area that will lead into the necropolis burial chamber.
3. The pole will be commissioned from Native American/First Nation Tribes whose tradition is pole carving.
4. The totem pole will tell the story of 9/11/03 and 2/25/93.
