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Reflecting Absence

A City's Search for REMEMBRANCE

" Wining out over fify-two hundred entries,New York City architect Michael Arad and landscape architect Peter Walker's bold design for World Trade Center memorial,REFLECTING ABSENCE , stands as a stark reminder of loss.

Reflecting Absence fills the two footprint with reflective pools that are submerged thirty feet below street level in the middle of a large plaza.
The expression of loss is stark and unambiguous.Cascading water feeds the pools from the outer walls of the footprints;sloped buildings or ramps border the footprints and guide the visitor into the memorial itself.The surrounding plaza's design includ teeming groves of trees, traditional affirmations of life and rebirth."

by Susan Tenaglia(in World&I april2004)

Se a memória não esquece ,a cidade ficará para sempre com um memorial digno.

Publicado por annie hall em abril 3, 2004 10:01 PM