2024-11-23T08:14:59-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150280881/twenty-years-in-the-making-earthcam-pays-tribute-to-the-world-trade-center-site-with-an-epic-time-lapse-video Josh Niland 2021-09-10T15:32:00-04:00 >2021-09-13T13:42:19-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/7f/7f30943c4299db6d50e7f09fcc9b4cc1.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>Twenty years after <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/14127/9-11" target="_blank">9/11</a>, the popular geographic livestream site EarthCam has revealed its commemoration of the tragedy using footage taken from two decades of loss and rebuilding.</p> <p>EarthCam founder Brian Cury installed the camera in the days following the attacks to document the <a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/150280857/new-pbs-documentary-details-the-nyc-department-of-design-and-construction-s-world-trade-center-cleanup" target="_blank">monumental recovery effort</a> taking place in lower Tribeca. The twenty-five-year-old company, which is headquartered just across the Hudson in Upper Saddle River, NJ, has been continuously recording the site since then, making it the longest-running time-lapse project in EarthCam history.</p> <p>Now, with unseen footage taken by cameras that captured every day of the past twenty years in thirteen million individual photographs, the interregnum has been reduced to a six-minute encapsulation of the transformation of the sixteen-acre site from an active crime scene to an eerie void and finally to its current form as a tourist destination and memory site visited by over 6.5 million people per year.</p> <p>&ldquo;This creative time-lap...</p>