WTC memorial competition - Artworld - World Trade Center site memorial - Brief Article

After much anticipation, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation has announced an international competition for a memorial at the World Trade Center site. Anyone 18 years or older may enter for a $25 fee. Guidelines stipulate that each victim of both the Feb. 26, 1993, and Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks be recognized, that the footprints of the original World Trade Center towers remain visible and that a special area be created for victims' families within the 4.7-acre space that will be located 30 feet below street level. The timeline is swift, with May 29 as the registration deadline and submissions due by June 30. More detailed information can be found at www.wtcsitememorial.org. In September, five finalists will be chosen to further develop their proposals, and a winning design will be selected in October.

Serving on the jury are artist/ architect Maya Lin; artist Martin Puryear; Public Art Fund president Susan K, Freedman; art advisor Nancy Rosen; Studio Museum in Harlem director Lowery Stokes Sims; architect Enrique Norten; landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh; Carnegie Corporation president Vartan Gregorian; Wall Street Rising founder/president Julie Menin; James E. Young, professor and chair of the department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Patricia Harris, New York City deputy mayor for administration; Michael McKeon, former director of communications for Governor Pataki; and Paula Grant Berry, who lost her husband in the attack. David Rockefeller will serve as an honorary member. Daniel Libeskind, whose plan was selected for the overall site [see "Artworld," Apr. '03], will be a technical consultant to the jury.

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