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New WTC Memorial Design
"The reconceived World Trade Center memorial and museum, unveiled today after weeks of anxious anticipation, tries to solve security problems, placate disaffected family members and, most of all, bring the project close to the $500 million budget cap." NYTimes.
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overall, i think it is a worthy compromise.
from my understanding, the savings comes from eliminating most of the undeground exhibition spaces. rather than looping around the void, the cascading water wall is only revealed at one corner (with view of freedom tower from below).
the experience of reading the names on the above grade parapet as you peer down onto a 70' waterfall seems a bit unnerving. to me it would evoke a sense of apprehension rather than quite reflection as in the original intent. this makes me question whether this revision pushed forth by the victim's families is actually more respectful of the victims.
who says what architecture is?...i think it is a relevant question.
compromise is never worthy of anything.
seems like arad had no choice but to compromise.
hypothetically, would you not compromise at the price of not having your design built?
i recently had to compromise some design solutions to help out a friend, who i thought would respect my solutions so i let it slide. (she needed desperate help after her architect failed her). instead, what happened was she implemented the ideas, but then added her own blind ideas culled from magazines and who knows where because of what marketing people and random people said, and then went on and destroyed the whole design and also screwed me on the bill by underpaying. unfortunately, still new to the game, i was gung ho. but i will be more cautious next time around.
Is anyone else curious about the fact that a construction manager is making (or at least being credited with) design recommendations?
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