The final eight architecture designs for a memorial at ground zero were displayed November 19 at the Winter Garden in Battery Park City, New York. They will stay there until a winner is chosen. The eight designs are: Lower Waters by Bradley Campbell and Matthias Neumann; Garden of Lights, by Pierre David, Sean Corriel, and Jessica Kmetovic; The Memorial Cloud, by Gisela Baurmann, Saward Brooks and Jonas Coersmeier; Suspending Memory, by Joseph Karadin and Hsin-Yi Wu; Inversion of Light, by Toshio Sasaki; Dual Memory, by Brian Strawn and Karla Sierralta; Votives in Suspension, by Michael Lewis and Norman Lee; and Reflecting Absence, by Michael Arid.
The design, Suspending Memory, would give the families a chance to tell the stories of the ones they have lost. Each victim will be represented by a single column supporting two island gardens. The designer Ms. Wu was born in Taipei, Taiwan, and grew up in Indonesia. She came to the States in 1992 received a degree in architecture in 1997 and moved to New York.
Votives in Suspension features two memorial sanctuaries, each on one of the World Trade Center towers' footprints. Family members would light the votive candles - one candle per victim - in a ceremony. The candle would be suspended from the ceilings of the sanctuaries. Norman Lee, one of the designers, was born and raised in Houston, Texas. He received a master's degree in museum education at the University of Texas in 2000. (Source: Marc Santora and Sabrina Tavernise, The New York Times, Nov. 20, 2003).