WORLD
MEMORIAL®

WTC Ruins Courtyard
by Daniel Topic
ximpact@volny.cz, impact@euroroofing.cz
Entry #859649, IMPACT Design Studio, Cellular: 420 608 722 557
Hlavni 12/56, 736 01 Havirov - Mesto, Czech Republic
 

  Preserve Ground Zero for the world to see
Protect, clean, whitewash, reassemble, and backlight (from the Memorial center outward)
the surviving, ground-level, and WTC iron beams

The surviving shell, in sections, standing at odd angles up to 10 stories high,
protrudes through a three-story free-standing glass wall,
delineating the WTC footprint and Memorial perimeter

  Victim Names
Three thousand names would wrap the glass walls,
three times, like one long sentence




  Click on above image (three sections) for larger 1MB graphics and 3.5MB WORD Document
Individual Hi-Res renderings can be obtained by writing directly to the artist.   

Rubble, empty escalators and fingers of steel
point  skyward, pleading for justice
a memorial to the horrors of terror and intolerance,
surround this courtyard of sorrow, with brilliant superstructures
 
and a carpet of green, cut only by wide walkways
a quiet place, many benches,
for reflection upon,
death,
courage,
and meaning of life

near these hallow grounds build a community
taller, stronger, unified and more inspiring than the original

whispers two

let the architects of tomorrow’s reach
exceed their grasp