It ultimately leads to two exhibition spaces and Foundation Hall, the Museum’s culminating space whose sheer scale conveys a sense of the enormity of the site and reinforces awareness of the absence of what once was there.ĭavis Brody Bond had a dual role on the site as Design Architect for the Memorial Museum and as Associate Architect (with Peter Walker and Michael Arad) for the Memorial Plaza. The combination of picture and verse effectively delivers the message that comfort can be found in remembrance and the continuity of life. At the end of the ribbon, the descent continues down along the Vesey Street Stair (“Survivors’ Stair”), which was used by hundreds to escape to safety on 9/11. It also offers multiple views of the slurry wall, the original retaining wall that was built to withstand the lateral forces of landfill and river, and which survived the collapse of the towers. The ribbon evokes the ramp used to remove debris from the site in the aftermath of the attacks. We chose as the space’s main narrative element a gently descending procession (dubbed “the Ribbon”) that guides visitors from the plaza to the bedrock level where the cut columns of the World Trade Center towers are revealed.
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Given a fixed set of existing geometries at the site, we were faced with the challenge of translating them into a series of coherent spaces that are punctuated by surface, texture and volume. Confronting the physical void left at the end of the recovery process, the spaces of the museum are revealed, progressively disclosing the various elements of collective and personal memory of the event. The Museum is located beneath the 9/11 Memorial at the World Trade Center.ĭescending nearly 70 feet to the original footprint of the World Trade Center towers, its 110,000 sf interior gives visitors access to the monumental underground site where remnants of the Trade Center’s construction and recovery frame the story of the terrorist attacks and the days that followed. He says that viewers identify with it because they think, “That could be me.” 9/11 Memorial Museum was conceived as the global focal point for presenting and preserving the history and memories of the events of 9/11, documenting the impact of the attacks and exploring their enduring significance. One of the Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist’s most famous images is of a figure falling from the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers during the 9/11 terror attacks. Drew explains this is because everyone can identify with it and feel that this person could be them. Twenty years on and this image still creates powerful emotions in the audience through its seemingly abstract portrayal of terror and pain endured that day. See live views of the construction of the World Trade Center and September 11 Memorial & Museum in lower Manhattan. Many readers found the photograph too shocking and disturbing to look at. This particular frame became known as “The Falling Man,” and the image was published in numerous newspapers the next day. 24 powerful and moving photos from the September 11 attacks that Americans will never forget Matthew DeBord Updated Sep 11, 2018, 8:22 AM Smoke pours from the twin towers of the World Trade Center.
On the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001, nineteen terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners mid-flight while traveling. This is the same principle he also applied to photograph the desperate people who were trapped on the upper floors of the burning World Trade Center and had made the grave decision to jump to their death to escape the fire and smoke (as well as those who were blown out by force and fell).Īs one such man fell, tumbling in the sky, one of the frames in the sequence Drew captured showed the man falling headfirst, vertical to the towers. The second tower of the World Trade Center bursts into flames after being hit by a hijacked airplane in New York September 11, 2001. The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, c were a series of four coordinated suicide terrorist attacks carried out by the militant Islamic extremist network al-Qaeda 3 4 5 against the United States. Photo by Robert on Flickr via Wikimedia CommonsĪs a veteran photojournalist, Drew knows what it takes to document horrific events - he remains objective, shuts down his personal responses, and focuses on recording history.