The revised plans for “Memory Foundations” at Ground Zero are out. Architect Daniel Here’s For an official overview recapping the history of the design-selection process, Since Ground Zero and the surrounding neighborhood have become major tourist The revised plans for “Memory Foundations” at Ground Zero are out. Architect Daniel Libeskind and the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation made them public yesterday. Here’s a quick news summary, and here’s a more thorough report (free registration required). The plans still call for the world’s tallest structure but also for slimmer office buildings and boxier designs than the angular […]<\/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-375","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-63","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","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=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nLibeskind and the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation made them public yesterday.
\nHere’s a
\nsummary<\/STRONG><\/EM><\/FONT><\/A>, and here’s a
\nregistration required).<\/EM> The plans still call for the world’s tallest structure but also for
\nslimmer office buildings and boxier designs than the angular structures Libeskind at first
\nenvisioned.<\/P>
\n
\nsay<\/EM><\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A> (free registration required).<\/EM>
\nHe’s underwhelmed. Here’s
\nsay<\/FONT><\/A><\/STRONG><\/EM>. He’s happy. Have a look at
\nshow<\/FONT><\/EM><\/STRONG><\/A> and what he calls
\nimages<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/EM><\/A>. Here’s the
\nplan”<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/EM><\/A> and schematic images of both the original and
\nrevised designs,
\n2003<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/EM><\/A>. Here, too, is a
\nthe train station now being built on the site. <\/P>
\n
\ninformal
\narchive<\/STRONG><\/EM><\/FONT><\/A> showing a timeline of developments in and
\naround Ground Zero, as well as black-and-white illustrations of the
\nreconstruction site. (The wall images are worth seeing, but the texts are illegible.) Need to refresh
\nyour memory about the memorial itself? Here’s the
\n
\n
\n“attractions,” it’s worth having a look at some nearby points of interest, such
\nas the
\nthe
\nthe Americas<\/FONT><\/A><\/STRONG><\/EM> and the
\nMuseum<\/EM><\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A>, which includes the Long Room, (a restored version
\nof the 18th century public dining room) where George Washington made his famous farewell to
\nhis officers at the end of the Revolution;
\nMuseum<\/STRONG><\/EM><\/FONT><\/A> and
\nYork City Police Museum<\/STRONG><\/EM><\/FONT><\/A>. And let’s
\nnot forget the<\/FONT><\/FONT>
\nArt<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A>.<\/EM><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"