Behind-the-scenes look at the 9/11 memorial

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...In the months after 9/11, Arad daydreamed about a memorial for the city that would honor New Yorkers' shared sorrow and fidelity. He thought about the kind of place he would want to visit, that would nurture the community.

"I started sketching this idea, it was sort of this image in my head of the surface of the Hudson River being torn open and two square voids that the water would rush into and they wouldn't fill up," he says. "It was a very inexplicable image, something that doesn't make any sense. It just kind of stayed in my head."...
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There is a video at the link that is well worth watching.

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Is it gonna be a nice crescent shape like the one in Shanksville, PA? :BH

Thanks for the link. No time to watch right now, but will later. Brings tears to my eyes to think of it. That, and the fact that it's been TEN FRICKIN' YEARS and so little has been done in the rebuilding process. GAH!!!
 
No crescent shape ... two squares, fountains into the ground. Hard to describe ... you need to see the vid.
 
unionmom said:
No crescent shape ... two squares, fountains into the ground. Hard to describe ... you need to see the vid.
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I know. I was just being a smart-arse. Shocking, I know. :D
 
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