New York 9/11 Memorial Plaza | Peter Walker (1)🌇

The 9/11 National Memorial Plaza is located at the site of the World Trade Center in New York 🍃🌸 It was designed by landscape architect Peter Walker and architect Michael Arad. This project responds to the heavy history of the "9/11" incident with a restrained design language. 🍃🌸 By combining space, nature, and symbolic elements, it creates a public space that can both hold collective memories and provide a place for contemplation. 🌿 The core of the memorial plaza is two large square pools, whose outlines are exactly the same as the bases of the original World Trade Center Twin Towers. The edges of the pools are designed as recessed structures, with walls covered in black granite, forming a vertical waterfall about 9 meters deep. 🍃🌸 Water cascades down from the pool walls and finally converges into a square abyss at the center of the bottom. This "void" design technique replaces traditional monuments with missing physical space, intuitively conveying the void left by the collapse of the Twin Towers. 🍃🌸At the same time, the continuous sound of the waterfall creates a solemn atmosphere. 🌊 Around the pools are bronze name walls, inscribed with the names of all 2,977 victims arranged according to their social relationships before death (such as colleagues, relatives, etc.). 🍃🌸This design respects individuals while also showing how the disaster tore apart and reorganized social networks. #NewYork 🗽🌟