World Trade Center Memorial, 3:
design competition finalist:
Garden of Lights
by Pierre David with Sean Corriel and Jessica Kmetovic

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The three-level design features two 'prairies' of vegetation covering the footprints of the former towers on the top level (view from south, above; view from north, below). Between them is an orchard. On the middle level are two rooms the size of the footprints. The south room is filled with light; the north room features a wall made from steel salvaged from the towers. On the other side of this wall are 1,275 lights, one for each physically unidentified victim. A passage, edged with a stream and lined with roses, connects the two rooms (right). On the lowest level is a room of 2,982 cylindrical alabaster altars, on which shine a constellation of starlike lights.
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source: Imagining Ground Zero: Official and Unofficial Proposals for the World Trade Center Site, by Suzanne Stephens with Ian Luna and Ron Broadhurst. Architectural Record / Rizzoli, 2004.