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The Buildings of the 7th Proposal:

Click on any imageor name to visit pages for each building.

Victory Plaza

The structure of Victory Plaza consists of four components: three towers, which rise from a 10-story platform, housing commercial and residential elements.

    1. The total height of the central tower, known as Premier(1), is 85 stories. It sits at the apex of its triangular base. The first visible shape at the front of the building is a soaring obelisk of steel and glass, flanked on both sides by progressively wider, lateral extensions from a central spine.

    2. Flanking the tower Premier are the winged towers, known as Impetrate(2)I and Impetrate II. They sit at the corners of the triangular base and raise a total of 65 stories of steel and glass.

    3. The residential and commercial triangular platform of Victory Plaza is known as the Masora(3), and is constructed from concrete, steel and glass. The sides of the triangular base, which are residential, are tiered into a gradual slope with terraces overlooking the park and grounds. An interior 5-story glass-topped atrium is entered from ground level.

     

Freedom Plaza

Freedom Plaza(4) is a powerful, glass and steel, 60-story office, commercial center, and hotel complex on a 5-story triangular base overlooking the Memorial Gardens of the World Trade Center Site.

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Children's Exposition and Center - Rally Center

This fanciful, double-shelled building, known as Rally(5)Center, is made of concrete, mosaic, steel and glass with a theater, painting and sculpture gallery, meeting rooms, offices for childrenŐs services, and a creative expression learning center where the worldŐs artists will be invited to display, teach and inspire. Rally Center will produce childrenŐs videos, TV shows and theatrical productions as a catalyst for the imagination for children of all ages.

Mesne Memorial Bridge

A graceful, glass atrium bridge, known as Mesne(6)Memorial Bridge, spanning the distance between the lakes that cover the footprints of the original twin towers. The bridge contains botanical gardens with plants from the 55 countries of the people who died in the tragedy.

 

Memorial Twin Towers Lakes

The footprints of the twin towers are square, shallow lakes with a circular, stepped down base on which stands a small pyramid, from which water flows gently down to reflecting pools in the corners. Granite seating marks the outline of each tower.

 

Rings of Life

A large, stained glass ring hovers above each lake. The Rings of Life form a halo over the Twin Towers Lakes, and each ring is twenty-two feet in diameter, containing 2800 pieces of colored glass. They stand on cement pylons, hidden by the arched rings, and the metal structure holding the glass contains laser lights, which move upward or inward to the center to meet the light emanating from the pyramid. Twelve-foot tall pillars mark the corners of the lakes. Each pillar contains laser lights that move upward to form the design of the original towers.

Memorial Chapel - Chapel of Wings

The Memorial Chapel, known as the Chapel of Wings, is a blue and violet glass building, in the shape of two, giant, stylized, opening wings. Stained glass designs decorate the front with a dove flying through a three dimensional hologram with streams of light and on the back of the Chapel is the sign of infinity out of which grows the tree of life, topped by the dove, the bird of peace.

Maze of Memories

A circular maze with low shrubbery and flowers stands between the bridge and Chapel of Wings. It contains The Ring of Names, a bronze ring with the names, dates and country flags of each person lost on 9/11. In the center of this bronze ring is a fountain, centered by a large, glass, planetary globe, turning on hydraulic water pressure.

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River of Names

A river is continuously moving between and around buildings, falling from buildings, cascades, which form pools, basins, fountains, which then circulate through out the site. The River of Names, dotted with lakes and bridges, meanders from the Marriott Hotel to where the waterfall flows into a pool behind Rally Center, ChildrenŐs Expo and Creative Center. It continues under the Memorial Bridge and out to the Twin Tower Lakes, then under and up into the fountain of the Maze of Memories. The River of Names forms the lake around the Chapel of Wings, flows underground and appears again in the Atrium of Victory Plaza and in the fountains of Freedom Plaza and the Memorial Museum.

World Trade Center Memorial Museum

The Memorial Museum will house the architectural records of the buildings and the terrible event that occurred on September 11, 2001. The museum will include photo histories of the heroes, the survivors, and those who perished. A theatre will show a memorial film, which will serve as a remembrance for all future generations. Family and friends may honor their loved ones in a beautiful, atrium mausoleum will serve as a resting place for those lost.

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Marriott Hotel

Replacing the Marriott Hotel that stood near the World Trade Center is a newly designed architectural statement that adds to the harmonics of the site. The structure moves energy out and around the site in a fluid, circular pattern.

Memorial Amphitheatre in the Park

A small amphitheatre nestles in the park grounds near the Marriott Hotel and in the grove by the River of Names.

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Memorial Park Grounds

Walkways, electric cart and bicycle pathways wind their way through throughout the grounds of the World Trade Center Site, which is adorned with fountains and statues in the midst of gardens of flowers and stands of trees.

Notes:

In order to name the buildings of the 7th Proposal, John randomly opened the dictionary, asking for the name of each structure. These were the results.

1. Central Tower at Victory Plaza - Premier: The first; chief; principal

2. Winged Buildings at Victory Plaza - Impetrate: To obtain by prayer of petition.

3. Base of Victory Plaza - Masora: The great traditional body of Biblical information.

4. Freedom Plaza - Words supporting from dictionary: "Ware" and "Preserve."

5. Children's Exposition and Learning Center - Rally: To reform ourselves for a fresh effort, to reunite, to recover our strength and arouse enthusiasm.

6. Memorial Bridge - Mesne: (pronounced "men") means the intervening middle. (A lord who hold the land of a superior and grants part of it to another person.)

 

 

 

After completing the descriptions of the buildings, we returned to this very large dictionary, opened the page, and with closed eyes pointed to:

Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, A Psalm of Life

 

Victory Plaza
Freedom Plaza
Children's Exposition and Center - Rally Center
Mesne Memorial Bridge
Chapel of Wings
World Trade Center Memorial Museum
Marriott Hotel
Maze of Memories
Rings of Life
Memorial Twin Towers Lakes
Memorial Amphitheatre in the Park
Memorial Park Grounds
River of Names
Fountains and Statues
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