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LOCATION
New York, NY

CLIENT
National September 11 Memorial & Museum

Completion Date
2011

Architect
Michael Arad, Davis Brody Bond (associate architects)

TypE
Parks and Gardens
Cultural Institutions
Civic Landscapes
Government
Master Planning

Description
The Memorial commemorates the victims of the attacks of September 11, 2001, at the World Trade Center, Shanksville, Pennsylvania, and the Pentagon as well as the World Trade Center attack of February 26, 1993. 

PWP joined Michael Arad in the final stage of the Memorial design competition with a mandate from the jury to humanize the scheme without diminishing the abstraction that had established it as a finalist. The broad scope of the trauma of 9/11 requires that the Memorial use a symbolic language understood by a diverse audience; this language is an integral part of “Reflecting Absence” by Michael Arad and Peter Walker.

Collaborators
Arborist: Paul Cowie Associates
Fountains: Dan Euser Waterarchitecture
Lighting: Fisher Marantz Stone
Irrigation: Northern Designs
Soils: C.R. Dixon & Associates
Paving Engineer: Mark Smallridge and Associates
Signage and Wayfinding: C&G Partners
Structural Engineer: WSP Cantor Seinuk Mechanical Electrical Plumbing: Jaros Baum & Bolles
Tree Procurement and Moving: Environmental Design Vector Control: Global Environmental Options
Pavement: Savema s.p.a.
Tree Planting: Kelco Landscaping