Michael Arad

PHOTOS: A Visit To New York's 9/11 Memorial

Barbara Barton Sloane | Posted 03.08.2012

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Now, a decade along, downtown New York City has not only recovered, it's been reborn. With a nod to the past and an eye toward the future, the World Trade Center site lives once more.

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9/11 Memorial Plaza In NYC To Open To Public

AP | SAMANTHA GROSS and VERENA DOBNIK | Posted 11.12.2011

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NEW YORK — Exactly 10 years ago, ground zero was a smoking, fire-spitting tomb, a ghastly pile of rubble and human remains. On Monday it was a p...

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PLUS: He May Have Been Pushed Aside, But Ground Zero's Original Master Planner Left His Mark

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Needham | Posted 11.09.2011

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NEW YORK -- A few years ago, it seemed as if Daniel Libeskind was down for the count here at ground zero. The commission for the Freedom Tower, now...

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More Than A Metaphor: Michael Arad's 9/11 Memorial

G. Roger Denson | Posted 11.11.2011

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No one critic can make proclamations concerning whether a memorial site succeeds in mitigating the lingering trauma and loss of a violent cataclysm for the public. Spiritual sustenance and healing is exceedingly personal.

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At The World Trade Center Memorial, Staying Above Ground Matters

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Needham | Posted 11.09.2011

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NEW YORK -- The search for the meaning of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks began as soon as the first plane hit the World Trade Center's north tower and...

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9/11 Memorial Plaza: The Kind Of Place You Can Take A Date?

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 11.09.2011

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The old World Trade Center towers sat on a barren, windswept plaza that cut off the city's street grid. That plaza was not a good setting to spark a r...

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WATCH: The Best Video Of The New World Trade Center Site

Posted 11.08.2011

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In an effort to attract new tenants to the new World Trade Center site, developer Larry Silverstein, Mayor Bloomberg, and architects Daniel Liebeskind...

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The Memorial Architect: Arad's 9/11 Moment Arrives

AP | KAREN MATTHEWS | Posted 11.05.2011

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NEW YORK — Architect Michael Arad first imagined the twin reflecting pools with cascading waterfalls – he calls them voids – as two ...

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WATCH: Time-Lapse Video Of The 9/11 Memorial At Ground Zero

Posted 10.22.2011

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The National September 11 Memorial at Ground Zero will open this September 11th, the tenth anniversary of the attacks. Architect Michael Arad and ...

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Reflecting Absence: Exploring The 9/11 Memorial

Steve Rosenbaum | Posted 09.10.2011

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As New York, and the world, prepares to see for the first time what will most certainly be one of the most visited memorial sites in the world -- Michael Arad seems calm, focused, and comfortable with what they'll see.

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