World Trade Center Memorial Coordinators to Display all Submissions on Website
The record 5,201 submissions in the World Trade Center memorial contest have been placed on a Web site, created to document the unprecedented response to the design competition.
The Lower Manhattan Development Corp., which is in charge of rebuilding at the site, unveiled the Web address, www.wtcsitememorial.org, yesterday.
"The virtual showcase exhibits all the work that went into each entry," said Anita Contini, an LMDC vice president.
Last month, a jury selected Michael Arad's Reflecting Absence as the winner of a competition. His design features two pools in the Twin Towers' footprints, wrapped by underground passageways where victims' names would be inscribed in the walls.
At the urging of groups for fallen rescue workers, who had said those victims' names should be recognized separately, Arad agreed to place service insignias next to the names of those rescue workers.
But during an LMDC meeting yesterday, board member Thomas Johnson, whose son Scott died in the Trade Center attack, said the board has called for no hierarchy in the names' arrangement.
"It's not the appropriate way to display the names," Johnson said.
Yesterday Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he backed Arad's decision, calling it "exactly the right thing to do."
SOURCE:[Miami.com]
The record 5,201 submissions in the World Trade Center memorial contest have been placed on a Web site, created to document the unprecedented response to the design competition.
The Lower Manhattan Development Corp., which is in charge of rebuilding at the site, unveiled the Web address, www.wtcsitememorial.org, yesterday.
"The virtual showcase exhibits all the work that went into each entry," said Anita Contini, an LMDC vice president.
Last month, a jury selected Michael Arad's Reflecting Absence as the winner of a competition. His design features two pools in the Twin Towers' footprints, wrapped by underground passageways where victims' names would be inscribed in the walls.
At the urging of groups for fallen rescue workers, who had said those victims' names should be recognized separately, Arad agreed to place service insignias next to the names of those rescue workers.
But during an LMDC meeting yesterday, board member Thomas Johnson, whose son Scott died in the Trade Center attack, said the board has called for no hierarchy in the names' arrangement.
"It's not the appropriate way to display the names," Johnson said.
Yesterday Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he backed Arad's decision, calling it "exactly the right thing to do."
SOURCE:[Miami.com]
<< Home