Gertler & Wente’s Design for WTC Site
Posted: June 28, 2011 Filed under: Architecture, Repost | Tags: 9-11, AN, Architecture, Ground Zero, https://fc3arch.wordpress.com/2010/09/11/names-of-world-trade-center-victims/, Museum, New York City, News, NYC, Progress, Report, Rpost, September 11, Sketch 1 Comment
Sketch by Gertler & Wente
written by Molly Heintz
On September 11 all eyes will be on the World Trade Center site, where the 9/11 Memorial and Museum will open with ceremonies commemorating the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on New York City. In addition to a subterranean museum and memorial space, the much-anticipated complex includes an aboveground museum pavilion and a landscaped plaza with reflecting pools in the footprints of the Twin Towers. However, due to extensive crowd control and security concerns, visitors who make a spontaneous trip to the site may find themselves not standing in these new public spaces but stuck at the site’s perimeter looking at photographs of them stretched across a chain-link construction fence instead.
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