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Twenty years in the making, EarthCam pays tribute to the World Trade Center site with an epic time-lapse video

2021-09-10T15:32:00-04:00

Twenty years after 9/11, the popular geographic livestream site EarthCam has revealed its commemoration of the tragedy using footage taken from two decades of loss and rebuilding.

EarthCam founder Brian Cury installed the camera in the days following the attacks to document the monumental recovery effort 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.

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.

“This creative time-lap...

After brief uncertainty, 9/11 memorial display to go ahead as usual

2020-08-17T15:56:00-04:00

The National September 11 Memorial & Museum’s Tribute in Light will shine this year after all, officials said on Saturday. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York said the state would provide the health personnel and supervision so that the display, which has memorialized the attacks on the Twin Towers since 2002, could safely continue.

The Museum had previously canceled this year's display due to coronavirus concerns for the workers paid to install the 88 light bulbs that make up the installation. After New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and other stepped into insure safety for these workers, however, memorial officials changed course and will produce the familiar twin towered memorial light display for this year's 9/11 anniversary.

New memorial at World Trade Center site to honor those affected by 9/11-related illnesses

2019-02-04T16:09:00-05:00

The New York Post reports that the 9/11 Memorial and Museum plans to open a section dedicated to those who’ve died or have grappled with 9/11-related illnesses—first responders, survivors, and New Yorkers who lived close to the World Trade Center site during the recovery efforts among them.

According to the New York Post, the designers of the landmark Reflecting Absence 9/11 Memorial, architect Michael Arad and landscape architect Peter Walker, were also in charge of planning this new memorial which is expected to be finished by May 30.

Editor's Picks #370

2014-06-04T15:36:00-04:00

The latest edition of the Working out of the Box series featured Daniel Carper , Product Designer at Loaded Boards and Orangatang Wheels. Thayer-D was impressed "Very cool stuff. I've often wondered about the intersection of industrial design and architecture".

Plus, Amelia discusses TELOS: The Fantastic World of Eugene Tssui, a documentary in which Kyung Lee explore what "Tssui’s outsider status means in the shifting waters of architectural discourse, as the architect seeks approval for his TELOS project".

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R.I.P - Massimo Vignelli, the award-winning designer, who died at the age of 83 after a long-term illness.

The LA Times published Christopher Hawthorne’s review of 9/11 Memorial Museum, in which he writes "The intensity, scope and sheer unrelenting literalism of this approach marks a significant change in how we choose to mark national trauma".

EKE chimed in "I think the museum was a bad idea on this site. ..I do think that the site is a sacred one because of the deaths that ha...

Architecture review: At 9/11 Memorial Museum, a relentless literalism

2014-05-27T14:23:00-04:00

Many New Yorkers, still trying to make sense of the 2001 destruction of the World Trade Center, have had a single question as a museum was being built at ground zero: Too soon? Now that the 9/11 Memorial Museum, as it's officially called, has opened to the public, they and others may find themselves asking something else: Too much? The museum is an overstuffed answer to the appealing minimalism of the 9/11 memorial and its cascading pools, which opened in 2011.

Previously: Sept. 11 Memorial Museum at Ground Zero Prepares for Opening

Sept. 11 Memorial Museum at Ground Zero Prepares for Opening

2014-05-14T13:38:00-04:00

After a decade marked by deep grief, partisan rancor, war, financial boondoggles and inundation from Hurricane Sandy, the National September 11 Memorial Museum at ground zero is finally opening ceremonially on Thursday, with President Obama present, and officially to the public next Wednesday. It delivers a gut-punch experience — though if ever a new museum had looked, right along, like a disaster in the making, this one did, beginning with its trifurcated identity.

May Opening Planned For 9/11 Memorial Museum

2014-03-25T13:21:00-04:00

The long-delayed 9/11 Memorial Museum will open to the public on May 21, after a six-day preview period during which it will be open round-the-clock for people directly affected by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, including victims’ family members, first responders, and lower Manhattan residents. [...] The museum, designed by the New York-based architecture firm Davis Brody Bond, was constructed around the largest, monumental artifacts [...].

The NYT on the 9/11 Museum, to open Spring 2014

2013-07-01T17:29:00-04:00

Steven M. Davis, a partner in Davis Brody Bond, which designed the museum, said he and his colleagues had been guided by the principles of memory, authenticity, scale and emotion. The museum will not open to the public until next spring, but officials have begun taking reporters through the unfinished galleries, confident that what was a construction zone a year ago, and a disaster area after Hurricane Sandy, now looks more like a museum.

At 9/11 Museum, Talking Through an Identity Crisis

2012-06-02T13:06:00-04:00

“Memorial Museum” — is something of a contradiction in terms... “Museums are about understanding, about making meaning of the past... A memorial fulfills a different need; it’s about remembering and evoking feelings in the viewer, and that function is antithetical to what museums do.” Reconciling the clashing obligations to recount the history with pinpoint accuracy, to memorialize heroism and to promote healing inevitably required compromise. No one anticipated how much.

9/11 Museum Is Delayed

2011-11-22T16:28:18-05:00

The planned 2012 opening of the Sept. 11 museum at the World Trade Center is in jeopardy amid a dispute over hundreds of millions of dollars in unexpected costs related to redeveloping the site, people familiar with the matter said.