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Eight finalists for the WTC memorial
The names of the eight finalists in the competition for the World Trade Center memorial were made known yesterday; it is the largest competition ever held, with 5200 participants from 63 countries.
While the jury is choosing the winner and the finalists are back at work developing their initial proposals, from today their projects will be on show to all, at the Winter Garden (and there they will remain until the jury makes its decision).
The eight designers and groups of designers – most from the United States – include those who suggest creating an almost magical atmosphere using thousands of suspended lights (one for each victim), those who have made water the dominant feature, and others who have come up with a green garden, and even stone. All the projects, however, share one feature – the inclusion of a list naming all the victims of the attacks one by one (those of 11 September 2001 and that of 1993 at the World Trade Center).
Lower Waters, by Bradley Campbell and Matthias Neumann, contains an inclined park that slopes from street level to 30 feet (9 meters) below
In the proposal Suspending Memory by Joseph Karadin and Hsin-Yi Wu a large pool covers the area and two memorial gardens will take place at the tower footprints
Inversion of Light by Toshio Sasaki includes a street-level landscaped park with a circular skylight that projects a blue light straight up from the location of the unidentified victim's remains
Passages of Light: Memorial Cloud is the proposal by the group bbc art + architecture. This entry includes an open-air structure with cathedral-like vaults and a glass walkway overhead
Reflecting Absence by the israeli designer Michael Arad has two pools of water 30 feet (9 meters) below street level
Garden of Light by Pierre David, Sean Correl and Jessica Kmetovic is a three-level memorial with a garden on the top and a private area for families of the victims
Dual Memory by Brian Strawn and Karla Sierralta contains a pavilion called the Individual Memory Footprints and the Shared Memory Footprints
