AH318A: Selected Topics in Art History: The Church and Cataclysm
Websites for Week 14
Various General Memorials and Memorial Activities
- National Coalition to Save Our Mall - WW II
- This shows you the Mall and explains its symbolism
- 9/11 Memorial Proposals - among the threats to the Mall are (or were) 9/11 memorials
- Alternative Site Chosen - although these now seem to be planned for an area nearby, instead
- AMERICA 911 MEMORIAL MOTORCYCLE PARADE
- Spontaneous world trade center/pentagon memorial
- In the Washington Mall
- United In Memory - 9/11 Memorial Quilt
- with illustrations, patch by patch.
- Seven Memorial Quilts - no pics at all, but gives you an idea of the quantity of quilt memorials.
- A Tribute To Heroes
- This is/was a "make your own 9/11 web memorial" site with searchable pages, but all the pictures are broken now.
9/11: The Pentagon and memorial competition
- DefenseLINK News: Spontaneous Memorial to Terrorists' Victims Grows Daily
- Lots of pics of a spontaneous Pentagon Memorial on a hillside near the crash site
- ASLA: USACE Pentagon Memorial Design Competition
- After a long delay in announcing the schedule and terms, the competition was held and closed between August 23rd and September 11th this year. Unbelievable.
- But take a look at the Pentagon site and especially this gesture made during the rebuilding: Ceremony, June 11, 2002. Tell us about that gesture
- Now check out the 6 Finalists' Designs
- Shane Williamson; Toronto, Ontario; individual entrant
- Julie Beckman; New York, New York; team member: Keith Kaseman
- Jean Koeppel; Brooklyn, New York; team member: Tom Kowalski
- Mason Wickham; Brooklyn, New York; team member: Edwin Zawadzki
- Jacky Bowring; Canterbury, New Zealand; team members: Peter England, Richard Weller and Vladimir Sitta
- Michael Meredith; Clifton Park, New York; individual entrant
- And an entry that did not make the final list:
- Baltimore District - Pentagon Memorial - Project Overview
- Input and comment on the Finalists' Designs is solicited and welcomed (e-mail link on the page)
9/11: The World Trade Center Memorial Proposals
- Franck Lohsen McCrery Architects - WTC
proposal
- this firm also designs pap-baroque churches
- Proposed 9/11 WTC secular memorial
- Unsolicited Proposal by a journalist, Fred Bernstein. Be sure to check all the visualizations.
- WTC Twin-Beams Memorial
- This memorial stood for a month and was then dismantled.
- Up From the Ashes
- Slide show by MSNBC showing 6 major architects' air dreams for rebuilding ground zero. This was a show organized by a New York Curator
- Newsday's Slide Show - or click here if you'd like to see 37 proposals! Actually, you must!
- World-Memorial Org
- Info in "Press" section - unofficial movement initiated by airlines personnel & set up at WTC ground zero. Difficult site to navigate and slow-loading, so direct links below might help.
- Home Presents need for memorial (with pics)
- Mission proposes values for the memorial
- Ideas solicits & presents 56 ideas (check them out)
- Wall Proposes the "best" design (click on "Memorial" for rationale)
- Building Proposes rebuilding ground zero (check this one out)
- Park Proposes a Pentagon Tribute in the WTC Plaza (check it out too)
- CNN.com - Six options offered to rebuild Ground Zero - July 16, 2002
- The Six Options
- New York Times: Don't Rebuild - Reimagine
- complains of horrendous lack of imagination in the official architects, and gives a nice slide show of alternative possibilities organized by the NYTimes' architecture critic.
- Gotham City Gazette: Rebuilding NYC
- page of many articles, see especially:
- Figuring Out the Memorial - sets it in context of other catastrophe memorials
The Ground Zero Cross
- Gotham City Gazette: Steel-Beam Cross Considered for Memorial - retrieved from the destroyed armature of the WTC, and set up one year ago, this cross may become permanent (no pic). Shades of Coventry Cathedral?
- Ground Zero Cross pictured here (scroll to bottom)
- TelecomWriting.com: The Ground Zero Cross - better expandable pic here
- MSNBC: Ground Zero Grieving and Cleanup Go On - the cross by night
- The Limerick Leader: The Ground Zero Cross Arrives - Like Coventry's Cross of Nails, miniature versions of the Ground Zero Cross made from other parts of the steel girders of WTC1 are distributed as symbols of peace and unity. Pictured here.
The Tumbling Woman Statue by Eric Fischl
- CNN: 9/11 memorial statue covered after complaints
- The sculptor intended his disturbingly literal statue of a woman falling to her death to comemmorate 9/11. Many people found it offensive, many found it moving, controversy developed about its appropriateness and sensitivity.
- N Y Daily News: Rockefeller Center's Disservice to Art
- Opinion piece on the controversy