NYC Memorials

World Trade Center Memorial: 

World Trade Center Memorial New York, New York

http://slate.msn.com/id/2062023/: 

http://slate.msn.com/id/2062023/

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Two piers project out into New York Harbor. The piers are the precise size of the World Trade Center towers. Each is 212 feet wide. One is 1368 feet long, and points toward the Statue of Liberty, the symbol of our freedom. The other is 1362 feet long, and points toward Ellis Island, the symbol of our pluralism.

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Each pier is divided into 110 "floors" (with a horizontal band every 12 feet). Visitors walk out onto the first pier, representing Tower 1. As they pass over each floor, they encounter the story of what happened on that floor, including names of victims. Inevitably, as the "higher" floors are reached, the lists of victims become longer. The experience is repeated on the second pier, representing Tower 2. Names of uniformed personnel who died on 9/11 will be inscribed in prominent locations.

Garden of lightshttp://www.wtcsitememorial.org/fin0_ani.html: 

Garden of lights http://www.wtcsitememorial.org/fin0_ani.html

Designer Statement: 

Designer Statement There was a last hour, a last minute, a last second that 2,982 stars went dark. The instant there was this last light there was a first light, 2,982 stars were born. A new constellation expands across the entire site; a new garden expands across the entire site. Time and space slow as the lights from the constellation pass through the garden, through the earth, and create the new constellation below. Above there is the garden, below there is a new sky and 2,982 stars.

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A glass wall surrounds this garden of lights. When it opens everyday from 8:46am to 10:29am it is a breath, a new rhythm for the city. Each season we walk a new path through the prairie and new seeds grow on the old path. In September the orchard gives fruit, the gift of life nourished by light.

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Between the garden above and the new sky below are two rooms the expanse of the footprints. The south room of light is pure light filled with all of the sky above and below. the north room of light is an offering path, a stream lined with roses

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Beneath the garden, beneath the rooms of light, we are under the constellation of 2,982 stars that shine down on 2,982 altars. Light shines on each engraved name for eternity. Each visitor has a map of the new constellation and they navigate their path through the stars.

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In the garden of lights we can look down the path of each light. We see the name inscribed in stone and the light from the shining star. A cloud passes over the city; it is a shadow on the garden, a sparkle in the stars below, a glimmer on the altar, a flicker in the soul.

Winning Designhttp://www.wtcsitememorial.org/fin7_ani.html: 

Winning Design http://www.wtcsitememorial.org/fin7_ani.html

It is located in a field of trees that is interrupted by two large voids containing recessed pools. : 

It is located in a field of trees that is interrupted by two large voids containing recessed pools.

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The pools and the ramps that surround them encompass the footprints of the twin towers.

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Arad's plan envisages water flowing down the walls of the footprints into reflecting pools and then a void at the centre, evoking feelings of emptiness and loss.

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Ramps descend the perimeter of each pool, with the walls of water falling behind a parapet engraved with the 2982 victims' names. The haphazard brutality of the attacks is reflected in the arrangement of names, and no attempt is made to impose order upon this suffering.

Descending into the memorial, visitors are removed from the sights and sounds of the city and immersed in a cool darkness.: 

Descending into the memorial, visitors are removed from the sights and sounds of the city and immersed in a cool darkness.

public mandate of the underground interpretive center: 

public mandate of the underground interpretive center visitors will witness the massive expanse of the original foundations. The entrance to the underground interpretive center is located at bedrock. Here visitors could view many preserved artifacts from the twin towers: twisted steel beams, a crushed fire truck, and personal effects. The underground interpretive center would contain exhibition areas as well as lecture halls and a research library.

NYC memorial Field trip: 

NYC memorial Field trip Irish Hunger Museum Police Memorial Living museum to the Holocaust

The Irish Potato Famine“the great hunger”: 

The Irish Potato Famine “the great hunger” The Irish Famine of 1846-50 took as many as one million lives from hunger and disease, and changed the social and cultural structure of Ireland in profound ways.

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The combined forces of famine, disease and emigration depopulated the island; Ireland's population dropped from 8 million before the Famine to 5 million years after.

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A blight of the potato crop left acre upon acre of Irish farmland covered with black rot, crops they relied on to pay the rent to their British and Protestant landlords destroyed. the price of food soared. food stores rotted and peasants who ate the rotten produce sickened and entire villages were consumed with cholera and typhus. Landlords evicted hundreds of thousands of peasants, who then crowded into disease-infested workhouses. The Famine spurred new waves of immigration, thus shaping the histories of the United States and Britain as well.

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the Irish Hunger Memorial commemorates all those who died from starvation or left their homes as a result of the potato blight in Ireland in the 1840s and immigrated to the United States. The memorial is also meant to call attention to world hunger today.

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Irish Hunger Museum

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Designed by Brian Tolle and a collaborative team of architects and designers

"An Gorta Mor," The great hunger: 

"An Gorta Mor," The great hunger Design Concept The Memorial represents a rural Irish landscape with an abandoned stone cottage, stone walls, fallow potato fields and the flora on the north Connacht wetlands. It is both a metaphor for the Great Irish Famine and a reminder that hunger today is often the result of lack of access to land. Moving beyond the fixed dates of the Great Irish Famine, the Memorial is a living site. Over time, the landscape will change; the text will be updated; the visitor will be encouraged to become actively engaged in meeting the challenge of world hunger.

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Raised above street level, a large, sloping concrete platform with a scalloped edge is covered with earth, vegetation and fragments of stone structures, including walls and a roofless cottage.

It re-creates a plot of farmland in rural Ireland. : 

It re-creates a plot of farmland in rural Ireland.

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Its 96-by-170-foot area equals the maximum size plot farmers could hold in order to qualify for British government aid during the Famine. All of the 62 types of flowers, plants and shrubs used in the work, such as ling heather, bearberry, foxglove and gorse, come from County Mayo, which was hit particularly hard by the Famine.

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The cottage itself, dating from the 1820s, was removed from the county stone-by-stone and reconstructed on the site. Tom Slack, a cousin of Tolle's longtime partner Brian Clyne, donated the structure to the city. Slack had inherited the ruins on a disused property; they are typical of those abandoned by victims of the Famine.

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The second element of the memorial, constituting the base of the platform, is a rather severe geometric enclosure with a street-level entrance at River Terrace.

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The base structure's walls, both inside and out, are made of narrow, horizontal strips of polished Kilkenny limestone imported from Ireland; the dark green-gray stone is punctuated with white circular fossils.

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The text, which combines the history of the Great Famine with contemporary reports on world hunger

Example of text: 

Example of text The text includes some 110 quotations, including autobiographies, letters, oral traditions, parliamentary reports, poems, recipes, songs and statistics "Hunger will break through a stone wall" "The well-fed does not understand the lean." "Hunger does not breed reform, it breeds madness and all the angry distempers that make an ordered life impossible"--Woodrow Wilson, 1918; "Every day 25 percent of our food supply is wasted"--Bill Clinton, 1998.

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contains stones from each of Ireland's 32 counties, The limestone is more than 300 million years old and contains fossils from the ancient Irish seabed.

Police Officer Memorial: 

Police Officer Memorial The fountain represents the rookie police officer's first day and serves as the genesis of the memorial. The linear flume acts as the time line and flows over the split face bottom.

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The water then passes through a slot in a granite wall, representing the day of death, and falls into a shallow pool.

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A wall along the western edge holds the names of the officers and dates on which they were killed. Constructed of green granite, the stone is rendered with a split face finish facing outward and polished surface facing inward reinforcing the sacred nature of the space.

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Outside the room three flagpoles stand as sentinels.

Living Memorial: 

Living Memorial Living Memorial to the Holocaust Garden of Stones 36 Battery Place • Battery Park City • New York, NY 10280 1.646.437.4200

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The Memorial Garden is a contemplative space dedicated to the memory of those who perished in the Holocaust and honoring those who survived.

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Eighteen boulders form a series of narrow pathways in the Memorial Garden's 4,150-square-foot space. A single dwarf oak sapling emerges from the top of each boulder, growing straight from the stone. As the trees mature in the coming years, each will grow to become a part of the stone, its trunk widening and fusing to the base. it demonstrates how elements of nature can survive in seemingly impossible places.

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About The Process Goldsworthy began working on the Garden of Stones in late 2002. he traveled seeking out suitable boulders, which he located in Barre, Vermont. Searching for boulders that were free of flaws, Goldsworthy selected stones which range in size and physical character. The smallest stone is three tons, while the largest weighs more than 13 tons. For Garden of Stones, he researched several different methods of hollowing the stones. He chose the flame torch method, in part because it was the most efficient, but also because granite is a fire-formed stone:

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For the trees, Goldsworthy selected a species of dwarf oak, Quercus prinoides. The trees will begin as small saplings, and over the course of decades will grow to be around 12 feet tall. "Amidst the mass of stone the trees will appear as fragile, vulnerable flickers of life - an expression of hope for the future.

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In Jewish tradition, stones are often placed on graves as a sign of remembrance