When the National 9/11 Memorial opened at Ground Zero in 2011, on the 10th anniversary of 9/11, the roads around it were still being built. And for two more years, construction fences from ...

The two reflecting pools are the center piece of the 9/11 Memorial’s design, a work titled “Reflecting Absence” by Michael Arad. The pools cover the exact footprints of the original Twin Towers.

Arad beat out thousands of others in a competition in 2004 to design the 9/11 memorial. The architect lived in the East Village at the time of the attacks, and remembers attending vigils across ...

The plan behind the 9/11 museum 02:19. NEW YORK - The National September 11 Memorial & Museum officially opens to the public Wednesday, but Charles G. Wolf saw the inside days ago.. Wolf lost his ...

When the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation presented six plans for the site as a whole on July 16, 2002 -- all of them with titles that began with the word memorial (Memorial Square, Memorial ...

The completed memorial -- two expansive reflecting pools in the footprints of the fallen buildings -- will open to family members for the first time on the 10th anniversary of the attacks.