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Before each of the finalists presented their final schemes, jurors engaged them in conversation, attempting to bring out the best of each design. “Reflecting Absence” was at that time the work of Michael Arad, a young architect for the New York City Housing Authority. Arad’s design featured a barren plaza, with two voids where the World Trade Center towers once stood. Streams of water poured into the voids. Names of the victims were to be located in a space in the memorial itself, which visitors could descend into...
...Arad added renowned landscape architect Peter Walker to his team before the final round of the competition. “I insisted that he have a landscape architect of national stature added to the team,” says Van Valkenburgh. “I said I wouldn’t care who it was and I didn’t think it was appropriate that we tell him who to use...I think his wisdom in choosing Walker was the beginning of him winning...
...Valkenburgh says he sees a brilliance of the winning design due to its collaboration, a practice that he has carried through in many projects. “He was very wise in picking Pete [Walker], and you know Pete’s in his early 70s and Michael [Arad] is 30,” says Van Valkenburgh. “They had good chemistry...
...also sees the merits of this type of open process, which allows a young architect like Arad the chance to design one of the most visible American architectural projects of the near future. As such, Van Valkenburgh bristles at criticism of the process like that from Michael Kimmelman, the chief art critic for the New York Times...
...businessman it had kidnapped in 2000. Israeli security officials believe Tennenbaum went to Lebanon to sell medicines that were past their expiration date; he says he was on a private mission to locate an Israeli airman shot down over Lebanon in 1986. The fate of that airman, Captain Ron Arad, is part of the second stage of the prisoner deal. Israeli intelligence officials believe he is dead. Some of the Lebanese prisoners released last week were captured by Israel as bargaining chips for Arad or his remains. The fact that they've been freed is a signal that he will...