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World Trade Center: World Trade Center Memorial
built 607 days ago
The World Trade Center was most famous for its Twin Towers. These two skyscrapers, the North Tower and the South Tower, were once the tallest buildings in the world. They had 110 floors each. The Twin Towers and the WTC building 7 were destroyed in the September 11, 2001 attacks while the other buildings were damaged beyond repair. Currently, the site is being developed as a memorial ground to the victims of the attacks, with a new Freedom Tower set to be built in its place.
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From the 52nd floor of 7 World Trade Center, Ground Zero looks orderly and swept, ready to receive a big delivery of architecture. Two massive squares have been marked off in the soil: archeological traces of the Twin Towers and a portent of their memorial.
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Plans for a new memorial on the site of One World Trade Center were redesigned in June 2006 to address security concerns, budgetary issues, and input from the victims' families. The central features—including the two pools fed by waterfalls—will be retained. The names of those killed in the attacks will be moved to the surrounding plaza, above ground.
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In the summer of 2002 the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC), created to supervise the rebuilding of the World Trade Center, released designs for the site. Negative public reaction to the designs, which were thought too timid and unambitious, led the LMDC to announce a design competition open to all architects. Each design was to include office and commercial space, facilities for cultural events, public areas, and a memorial to the victims of the September 11 attacks. The winning design for the site, chosen in 2003, came from Polish-born American architect Daniel Libeskind. Libeskind’s plan left visible the bedrock beneath the site, exposed after the rubble from the attack had been cleared away. It ... included a tower—soon referred to as Freedom Tower—with a symbolic height of 1,776 ft (541 m), reflecting the date of American Independence.
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In 2002, separate design contests were held for rebuilding the World Trade Center site and creating a memorial for the victims of the attacks. The first round of finalists for the site, unveiled in July 2002, were widely criticized as being too boring and having too much of an emphasis on office space, leading to a new round of finalists in December.
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Designs were unveiled in 2006 for three more skyscrapers to be built on the World Trade Center site. The three proposed glass towers descend in height from Freedom Tower and, together with Freedom Tower, encircle the planned memorial. British architects Norman Foster and Richard Rogers and Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki each designed one of the skyscrapers.
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