World Trade Center Memorial proposals

5,201 people from around the world submitted proposals to the design competition for the World Trade Center Memorial. The competition was launched in spring 2003. Over 10,000 people registered to submit designs, making it, by far, the largest design competition in history.

Entrants submitted their designs anonymously, and were identified to the jury only by a six digit serial number. On November 19th, 2003, the eight World Trade Center Memorial finalists and their designs were revealed to the public. The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation also announced plans to display all 5,201 proposals to the public sometime in late 2003 or early 2004.

This wiki will host a directory of the 5,193 non-finalist proposals. This directory is being maintained by participants in the competition and will evolve with time as the list grows. To add your design to the list, provide a very brief description (one or two lines max) and a link to your design. Also please include your competition entry number, this will facilitate linking to LMDC webpages if and when they publish the boards online.

Non-Finalist Proposals For The World Trade Center Memorial (alphabetical)

Proposals are currently listed alphabetically, and will be organized by type or other criteria in the future. When posting new entries, please make sure they are in alphabetical order.

• 706101, Richard A. Silverman and Judith A. Rodnite (Naples, Florida USA) [1]
• 858452, Ray Herdegen (Minneapolis, Mn. & Homer, Alaska), Bill Wormley (Minneapolis, Mn.)[1]
• A Golden Tree - Jean Luc Comperat and Minouche Waring . 3022 gold plated leaves and 92 flags hummimg into eternity . [New York-USA] - [1]
• A Place In Time, Thomas Brophy (San Diego, CA) --Cycles of Earth and Sky precipitate natural memorial arches. [1]
• Ascension Park (#634603), John Laughlin (Houston, Texas), David Calloway (Austin, Texas)--A memorial park with individual monuments remembering the seperate groups involved in the tragedies. [1]
• Celestial Requiem, Christian Kendrick (Charlotte, North Carolina) - 11-rayed star pattern of pillars, marking in time when the attacks began. [1]
• Crystal Memorial, Raymond Chai (Sydney, Australia) - memorial complex surrounding a 400' tall crystal memorial, [1]
• Endurance Memorial (#409352), Stuart Gosswein (Washington, DC) - [1]
• Eternal WTC, William Stratas et al (Toronto, ON) - [1]
• Five Gates, WTC Memorial Proposal, Matt M. & Chris G., [1]
• Infinite Spire & Fallen Headstones (#446054), Brian McConnell (San Francisco, CA) - 600m metallic spire, shaped to appear infinitely tall when viewed from footprints. [1]
• Memorial Edifice - Kit Perkins, Joni D., Anthony D., (Syracuse, NY, USA) - A campus of diverse memorial elements and artifacts including an iconic structure symbolizing 9/11. [1]
• Memorial in Video, Jeff Jarvis (New York, NY) - the victims of the World Trade Center attacks are shown in video as they lived. [1]
• Memory Images, Steven Laubach (Tallahassee,FL)-Preserves the indelable images of 9-11 with tradit. & non-tradit memorial elements [1]
• Mirrored Atrium, Ray Kleim and Ricky Sebra - large mirrored atrium that creates an illusion of the Twin Towers extending into infinity. [1]
• Mists of Avalon, Christopher Verdesi (Ossining, NY) - Fire Stair Monument and underground space set amid Glastonbury Abbey-inspired WTC facade ruins. [1]
• Rays of Gold (#122758), Warren Farr (Paducah, KY) - Visitors ascend to a broad ellipse to celebrate the lives of 3,016 individuals, their memorial plaques forming rays of a sunburst, the sun represented by Fritz Koenig's surviving Sphere sculpture. [1]
• Resurrection - Frank Young - Regeneration from destruction using the shapes of the star on the US flag and pentagon. An animation plus pictures and text at http://www.core3d.com/client_movies/wtc/ also see http://community.webshots.com/user/fywtc
• Seek Stability, Embrace Change, Greg Blonder - site divided into a PAST and FUTURE section, with light reflected from the 1776 tower illuminating the FUTURE [1]
• Spaces Made Sacred, Greg Allen - depicts the paths taken by people on 9/11 and their intersections. [1]
• Stone Garden of Light, Becky Brock (TX) - small lighted statues of each victim mounted on stones. [1]
• Untitled, Kshanti Green - statuary memorial, [1]
• World Trade Center Memorial Park, Andrew Leipzig (NY) • Tribute In Lights with 110' columns and open air Amphitheatre [1]
• Veil of Names, Christopher Schroeer-Heiermann (BRD)#656431; Empty plaza at street level formed by horizontal plane of names and cables. [1]
• Star Wall - Twin sanctuaries linked by compressive wall of memory (stars)#446008 NJBA A+U [1]