| The World Trade Center Memorial Site Competition was administered by the LMDC (Lower Manhattan Development Corporation). We submitted a design into the World Trade Center Memorial Site Competition on 6/30/2003. Our design was not chosen as a finalist. Of the finalists, the LMDC selected "Reflecting Absence" to be the memorial design which can be viewed at LMDC's memorial website http://www.wtcsitememorial.org.
Our entry was assigned number 706101 by the LMDC. Our design was one of the 5,201 worldwide entries, one of 4,392 from the United States, and one of 126 from Florida. All 5201 original submission poster boards (each design was required to be submitted on a 30 by 40 inch poster board) were scanned and can be seen on a section of the LMDC's website at http://www.wtcsitememorial.org/submissions.html. The LMDC is displaying all of the submissions because all visions for the memorial are still a tribute. Our website provides some further clarification of the description and images of our design. We were disappointed when our design was not chosen but still feel honored to have been part of the competition. We feel that "Reflecting Absence" is a great selection. We of course are biased but are still proud of our design which we felt possessed multiple important elements including representing the enormity of the September 11, 2001 tragedy as a whole, providing a medium to tell the story of each of the 3022 individual tragedies and the impact on their family and loved ones, a medium to celebrate the lives of the each of the 3022 individuals, and providing some comfort to family and loved ones. In addition, we felt that our design, when incorporated next to the previously selected 1776 foot high tower would have provided the New York City skyline with two striking towers (see Picture 1 and Text). This would have provided notification to the terrorists of their defeat.
Note that a couple years after our design was submitted and published, we were surprised by the depictions in the news of Chicago Spire (Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava also has referred to such 150 story, 2000 feet tall spiral tower skyscraper building as Fordham Spire) standing in the Chicago skyline and the likeness to our depiction of our design standing in the New York skyline.
Please feel free to e-mail us with any comments. Also, if you know others that you think might be interested, please feel free to forward our website address to them as we would welcome their comments as well.
Richard Silverman and Judith Rodnite
Naples, Florida USA
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