New York's new 9/11 Memorial is designed to blend mourning and vitality at the heart of a bustling financial district Updated: Sep. 10, 2011, 10:59 p.m. | Published: Sep. 10, 2011, 9:59 p.m.

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 ...

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 ...

Our 21st-Century Architecture: 25 Years 25 Buildings pick for 2011 is the National 9/11 Memorial designed by Michael Arad of Handel Architects – a powerful symbol of loss, remembrance and healing.

There were 5,201 entires into the 9/11 Memorial Competition. A new book, 9/11 Memorial Visions by Lester Levine, tells the personal story behind the entries.

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.