map: World Trade Center site. New York, NY
Awaiting completion in 2011, 9/11 memorial Museum already shows Snohetta's above ground pavillion. The 7 storie underground museum is designed by Davis Brody Bond Aedas of New York. The Norwegian-american Snohetta office was comissioned the building (the only one that sits in the memorial grounds) horizontal and light, so as not to interfere with the inmensity of the site, and with a reminiscent appearance of the original towers.
: : : ::: THE QUOTE
"Almost no memorial museum is sited where the tragedy actually happened. And this museum is the reverse of most. Usually, the museum houses the exhibit. Here, the exhibit houses the museum."
"Almost no memorial museum is sited where the tragedy actually happened. And this museum is the reverse of most. Usually, the museum houses the exhibit. Here, the exhibit houses the museum."
- Steven Davis of Davis Brody Bond Aedas
An adjacent building in the complex caught on fire by fireworks on Feb 9th 2009, before the building's scheduled completion in May 2009. It was to have the Beijing Mandarin Oriental Hotel
click : ASYMPTOTE official site
before 9/11
aerial view before 9/11
From left to right: 1WTC by SOM, 2WTC by Foster, Transportation hub by Calatrava (down below), 3WTC by Rogers, 4WTC by Maki. Lower in foreground: 1,2,3, & 4 World Financial Center by Pelli
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