As a New Yorker, I was very grateful to see this column and hope its
provides some weight to good ideas already in the air. Perhaps it was
spawned by one of the parties involved?

I had lunch last week with a talented younger architect who is part of the
NYCRebuilds coalition on the Memorial Committee. For all of there reasons
Tierney articulates, he had proposed a public viewing platform or walkway
and been dismissed as "ghoulish." I hope that the group, and the American
Institute of Architecture / NY Chapter teams that are coming together, will
rethink that in the light of this column and move forward. What happens
here in NY, however, in cases like this, is too often no one chooses. We
have committees and competitions and juries and ... We can only hope that
in this instance the design and content professionals will come together
behind something quickly and convince the people who can make it happen -
not necessarily the mayor. My friend is pretty well regarded, and
determined and may just win through in a timely manner.

The challenge is not only to create something now, for the next year or two
as the cleanup continues, but to consider a future, more permanent,
memorial. I understand there is an exhibit is DC at the National Building
Museum addressing the need, nature and development of monuments. How timely.

- Margot

At 23 10 01, you wrote:
I agree with Tierney that curators would be the people best suited to the
task of setting up some kind of observation post near the WTC where people
could come to pay their respects.I'm sure there are definitely curators and
artists in NYC who would be capable, or even the people who set up the
Holocast museum in Washington, DC or the ones in Berlin, who would be
sensitive to the situation and the desire of people to see with their own
eyes. The only problem I see is who would pick the curators? I'd hate to
see Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani be given that responsibility, but maybe he
would be able to choose good people for the job.

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