Architect: Studio Daniel Libeskind
Daniel Libeskind titled his site design "Memory Foundations," and left the World Trade Center's remaining slurry wall as a basis for the memorial, "revealing the heroic foundations of democracy for all to see." He designed the site so that a "Wedge of Light" would shine on the "Park of Heroes" each year on Sept. 11 between the time the first plane hit and when the second tower collapsed.

Reproduced with permission of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation.