Performative Memory: Form and Content in the Jewish Museum Berlin by Lisa A. Costello
Case Study : 9/11 Memorial and Museum by Handel Architects with Peter Walker, Davis Brody Bond
The National September 11 Memorial is a tribute of remembrance and honor to the nearly 3,000 people killed in the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 at the World Trade Center site, near Shanksville, Pa., and at the Pentagon, as well as the six people killed in the World Trade Center bombing in February 1993.
The Memorial’s twin reflecting pools are each nearly an acre in size and feature the largest manmade waterfalls in North America. The pools sit within the footprints where the Twin Towers once stood allowing felling of quiet reverence between visitor and memorial. Water flowing into an abyss brings the sense that what beyond this parapet edge is inaccessible.
Void represented primary symbol of loss left by destruction. Groves of tree resemble life and rebirth.
Architect Michael Arad and landscape architect Peter Walker created the Memorial design selected from a global design competition that included more than 5,200 entries from 63 nations.
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