The only existing “The visitor turns a corner at the second-floor landing of the Octagon’s elegant 18th-century When you look at the model — it was created by Minoru Yamasaki, the architect who won Next month, if it holds to its schedule, a jury of artists, architects, urban planners and others The only existing scale model of the original World Trade Center twin towers has been “painstakingly restored” and is “on view in a darkened chamber at the American Architectural Foundation’s Octagon Museum” in Washington, Benjamin Forgey reports. “The visitor turns a corner at the second-floor landing of the Octagon’s elegant 18th-century stairwell, enters the room […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-374","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-62","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nhas been “painstakingly restored” and is “on view in a darkened chamber at the American
\nArchitectural Foundation’s Octagon Museum” in Washington, Benjamin Forgey reports. <\/P>
\n
\nstairwell, enters the room on the right and comes face to face with the spotlighted twin towers —
\nstark white forms on a pedestal in a plexiglass box,” he writes today in The Washington Post. The
\nsight of the model in its “shrinelike setting,” strikes Forgey as “at once odd and oddly appropriate.
\nIt is strange to see an architectural model treated almost like a religious icon. Yet it feels right in
\nthe aftermath of the trade center’s awful destruction two years ago.”<\/P>
\n
\nthe commission to design the original towers — what does it remind you of? (
\n“Tribute in Light,” which was installed at Ground Zero six months after 9\/11 as a temporary
\nmemorial to those who died. (Here’s a
\nthe tribute<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> and
\nanother<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>.) More even than those photos, a schematic 3D animation of the
\ntribute shows a stunning similarity to Yamasaki’s architectural model. (Scroll down and click
\non
\n
\nwill choose a winner in the
\nthan 5,000 entries. Let’s hope the creators of the Tribute in Light entered it. Although it was
\nmeant as a temporary memorial, many people were so moved by it they wanted it to be
\npermanent. Now, after comparing it to Yamasaki’s model, that makes more emotional sense than
\nthan ever.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"