>9-11 memorial
"There were many moments that were fraught with anxiety and challenge for Michael Arad as he fine-tuned his design for the 9/11 memorial at the site of the World Trade Center’s (WTC) Twin Towers, but some of the compromises he was forced to make along the way actually led to a more perfect space for reflection, the architect said at a Saybrook College master’s tea on Nov. 27.
Arad, whose WTC memorial was chosen from more than 5,000 design entries, described his creative process and traced the development of his design from its earliest incarnation through its final form, sharing pictures of his sketches, test runs for his ideas, and the fully realized memorial, which opened to the public in September 2011.
The architect, who watched the second plane hit the South Tower from his roof on the Lower East Side, described how, in the days immediately following the WTC attacks, he first envisioned a memorial that incorporated the element of water. His earliest sketch, which he made about a month later, was an attempt to capture his own feelings about the attack as well as its aftermath, he said."
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