- There were 5,201 submissions from 63 countries.
- Entries were judged by a 13-person jury.
- In January 2004, the design submitted by architect Michael Arad and landscape architect Peter Walker, Reflecting Absence, was chosen as the winning entry. Their design features twin waterfall pools surrounded by bronze parapets that list the names of the victims of the 9/11 attacks and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. The pools are set within a plaza where more than 400 swamp white oak trees grow.
The Memorial opened on September 11, 2011.
Ten years after the 9/11 attacks.
- The focal points of the Memorial are two pools, each nearly an acre in size, that sit in the footprints of the former North and South Towers.
- The pools contain the largest man-made waterfalls in North America, each descending 30 feet into a square basin.
- From there, the water in each pool drops another 20 feet and disappears into a smaller, central void. Although water flows into the voids, they can never be filled.
The names of the 2,983 people who were killed in the 2001 and 1993 terrorist attacks are inscribed on bronze parapets edging the memorial pools. The names are grouped by the locations and circumstances in which victims found themselves during the attacks. The North Pool parapets include the names of those who were killed at the North Tower, on hijacked Flight 11, and in the 1993 bombing. The South Pool parapets include the names of first responders as well as victims who were killed at the South Tower, on hijacked Flight 175, at the Pentagon, on hijacked Flight 77, and on hijacked Flight 93.
Within these groupings, names are arranged in a system of "meaningful adjacencies." Friends and colleagues appear together, as well as the crews of each of the four flights and first responder agencies and units. Additionally, during the Memorial's development, victims' next of kin were invited to request that their loved ones' names be inscribed alongside specific others. In this way, those who were connected in life reside together on the Memorial.
9/11 Memorial & Museum:
- The National September 11 Memorial & Museum is a memorial and museum in New York City commemorating the September 11, 2001 attacks, which killed 2,977 people, and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, which killed six.
- The memorial is located at the World Trade Center site, the former location of the Twin Towers that were destroyed during the September 11 attacks.
- It is operated by a non-profit institution whose mission is to raise funds for, program, and operate the memorial and museum at the World Trade Center site.
- A memorial was planned in the immediate aftermath of the attacks and destruction of the World Trade Center for the victims and those involved in rescue and recovery operations.
- The winner of the World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition was Israeli-American architect Michael Arad of Handel Architects, a New York- and San Francisco-based firm. Arad worked with landscape-architecture firm Peter Walker and Partners on the design, creating a forest of swamp white oak trees with two square reflecting pools in the center marking where the Twin Towers stood.
- In August 2006, the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey began heavy construction on the memorial and museum.
- The design is consistent with the original master plan by Daniel Libeskind, which called for the memorial to be 30 feet below street level—originally 70 feet—in a plaza, and was the only finalist to disregard Libeskind's requirement that the buildings overhang the footprints of the Twin Towers.
- The World Trade Center Memorial Foundation was renamed the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in 2007.
- A dedication ceremony commemorating the tenth anniversary of the attacks was held at the memorial on September 11, 2011, and it opened to the public the following day.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_September_11_Memorial_%26_Museum
It is a Callery pear tree that survived the attacks on 9/11, and was worked into the design of the Memorial Plaza. Workers managed to free it and nurse it back to health in a Bronx park before replanting it again in Memorial Plaza. The Survivor Tree, now standing at about thirty feet, is approximately four times its original height from back in 2001, it easily towers over the other trees planted in the Plaza. Visitors flock around the tree – a living and breathing reminder that we must grow and move forward after these events, as its limbs bear the scars of the Towers.
On May 31, 2019, a new section of the 9/11 Memorial called the 9/11 Memorial Glade opened to the public. Six large, upward-sloping monolithic stones are arranged on the edges of a newly-created, diagonally-oriented walkway. The Memorial Glade is to honor the men and women who have contributed to the recovery, rescue, and relief efforts during and after the 9/11 attacks and are sick, injured, or have passed away.
Each slab contains thin pieces of salvaged steel from the original World Trade Center, a detail that can only be seen close-up as the metal runs flush with the stone, and is different for each monolith.
For 30 years, the World Trade Center Plaza showcased a 25-foot, bronze sculpture known as The Sphere. After miraculously surviving the events of September 11, 2001, the sculpture was moved around the city again and again only to return home to the 9/11 Memorial.
Once it arrived in New York, the sculpture was placed in the Austin J. Tobin Plaza, right in the middle of the World Trade Center. Symbolizing world peace through trade and commerce, the artwork was right at home in the financial center of the city.
In the aftermath of the collapse of the World Trade Center, The Sphere was recovered from the wreckage. There was some severe damage, but amazingly, it stayed mostly intact.
The 9/11 Memorial Museum holds a collection of artifacts, news reports, and photographs of many details of the tragic event. The Ladder Company 3 firetruck of the New York City Fire Department stands as one of the pieces in the museum as well as FDNY Captain Patrick John Brown's helmet. His team was part of the largest uniformed responders who formed the single largest dispatch of nonmilitary emergency personnel in the history of the nation.
Another exhibit holds the pictures of 2,997 individuals who were killed. Wall upon wall, from top to bottom, filled with portraits.
https://www.hawkeyenews.net/features/2019/05/06/9-11-memorial
They sit in the footprints of the former North and South World Trade Center Towers
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National September 11 Memorial and Museum. Twin waterfall pools surrounded by bronze parapets that list the names of the victims of 9/11/2001 and 1993 bombing