WTC Memorial Chosen

[PLATO]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/ID/3887596/

[Nubclear]

Perhaps they forgot the "Memorial" part?

[Zylka]

Which would traditionally have to do with a bronze statue of some bearded schmuck in Leningrad?

[Boris Godunov]

Kinda reminds me of an Orlando hotel.

[Zylka]

What type of trees are those going to be? And what exactly is that matte glass wall structure?

[Alexander's Horse]

Not this?

[Boris Godunov]

The trees in the model aren't really representative, from what I understand. They are going to redo the model with more accurate representations. There will apparently be groves and such.

I was under the impression that this design incorporated remnants of the first towers. Perhaps that is used in the structure.

[Nubclear]

When I look at this design, I do think "New York City 9-11 Commemoration Hotel and Spa".

"Come now for only $999.99, or the terrorists win!"

[Patroklos]

It looks like the plaza outside my mall.

Honeslty I think we should have just built two more impresive buildings to show that the terrorists accomplished nothing. It is a waste of good realistate, and it seems to me that theses days memorials seem to be more open space "for reflection and thought" than any symbolism to depict what actually happened. How about a bronze statue showing firefighters and citizens a la the Iwo Jima memorial? Monuments like that will be striking people for hundreds of years. In thirty people will look at this and think who distastful contemporary architecture was back then.

All this is is a plaza. Hell if you don't actually walk up to the holes there IS no monument because you can't see anything. Not to mention in 20 years this will be used like all other memorial public squares in big cities, as a place for people to eat their lunch. Especially given its surroundings.

And what is that big white scafolding supposed to be.

[Alexander's Horse]

Originally posted by Zylka
What type of trees are those going to be?

Plane trees?

[Nubclear]

I present my proposal:

Glaring Absence


It's a place where you can sit down and reflect on lifes many horrors.
We, of course, intend to write the names of the victims in the dirt so that they'll be immortalized.

[Zylka]

It looks like a giant ***ing radiator with Tamiya greenery applied to no representative end. "Two pools of water", that's grande - not at all what every 6 year old’s crayon submission to CNN so brilliantly dreamt up.

[Kuciwalker]

The holes are stupid. That seems like reminding people in the worst way.

[Zylka]

Exactly. They should be equally deep as the towers were tall and filled with the charred corpses of some 3,000 Basenji hounds

[Patroklos]

They emphisize the death and destruction, which shouldn't be forgotten, but they should also remember all the heros of the day as well, those who lived and those who fell. A simple obelisk or arch or something would be better than this, at least them it would have class. This collection of newage......whatever it is surely doesn't.