The Buildings of the 7th Proposal:

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Victory Plaza

The structure of Victory Plaza consists of four components: three towers, which rise from a 10-story platform, housing commercial and residential elements.

1. The total height of the central tower, known as Premier(1), is 85 stories. It sits at the apex of its triangular base. The first visible shape at the front of the building is a soaring obelisk of steel and glass, flanked on both sides by progressively wider, lateral extensions from a central spine.

2. Flanking the tower Premier are the winged towers, known as Impetrate(2)I and Impetrate II. They sit at the corners of the triangular base and raise a total of 65 stories of steel and glass.

3. The residential and commercial triangular platform of Victory Plaza is known as the Masora(3), and is constructed from concrete, steel and glass. The sides of the triangular base, which are residential, are tiered into a gradual slope with terraces overlooking the park and grounds. An interior 5-story glass-topped atrium is entered from ground level.

 

Freedom Plaza

Freedom Plaza(4) is a powerful, glass and steel, 60-story office, commercial center, and hotel complex on a 5-story triangular base overlooking the Memorial Gardens of the World Trade Center Site.

Children's Exposition and Center - Rally Center

This fanciful, double-shelled building, known as Rally(5)Center, is made of concrete, mosaic, steel and glass with a theater, painting and sculpture gallery, meeting rooms, offices for childrenŐs services, and a creative expression learning center where the worldŐs artists will be invited to display, teach and inspire. Rally Center will produce childrenŐs videos, TV shows and theatrical productions as a catalyst for the imagination for children of all ages.

Memorial Chapel - Chapel of Wings

The Memorial Chapel, known as the Chapel of Wings, is a blue and violet glass building, in the shape of two, giant, stylized, opening wings. Stained glass designs decorate the front with a dove flying through a three dimensional hologram with streams of light and on the back of the Chapel is the sign of infinity out of which grows the tree of life, topped by the dove, the bird of peace.

Maze of Memories

A circular maze with low shrubbery and flowers stands between the bridge and Chapel of Wings. It contains The Ring of Names, a bronze ring with the names, dates and country flags of each person lost on 9/11. In the center of this bronze ring is a fountain, centered by a large, glass, planetary globe, turning on hydraulic water pressure.

River of Names

A river is continuously moving between and around buildings, falling from buildings, cascades, which form pools, basins, fountains, which then circulate through out the site. The River of Names, dotted with lakes and bridges, meanders from the Marriott Hotel to where the waterfall flows into a pool behind Rally Center, ChildrenŐs Expo and Creative Center. It continues under the Memorial Bridge and out to the Twin Tower Lakes, then under and up into the fountain of the Maze of Memories. The River of Names forms the lake around the Chapel of Wings, flows underground and appears again in the Atrium of Victory Plaza and in the fountains of Freedom Plaza and the Memorial Museum.

World Trade Center Memorial Museum

The Memorial Museum will house the architectural records of the buildings and the terrible event that occurred on September 11, 2001. The museum will include photo histories of the heroes, the survivors, and those who perished. A theatre will show a memorial film, which will serve as a remembrance for all future generations. Family and friends may honor their loved ones in a beautiful, atrium mausoleum will serve as a resting place for those lost.

Marriott Hotel

Replacing the Marriott Hotel that stood near the World Trade Center is a newly designed architectural statement that adds to the harmonics of the site. The structure moves energy out and around the site in a fluid, circular pattern.

Memorial Amphitheatre in the Park

A small amphitheatre nestles in the park grounds near the Marriott Hotel and in the grove by the River of Names.

Memorial Park Grounds

Walkways, electric cart and bicycle pathways wind their way through throughout the grounds of the World Trade Center Site, which is adorned with fountains and statues in the midst of gardens of flowers and stands of trees.

Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, A Psalm of Life