September 11

What's Happening - And Not Happening - At Ground Zero

Eight years after terrorists felled the World Trade Center towers in New York City, progress on rebuilding the site has been slow and mired in controversy.
11 September 2009 - 10:00am
Architectural Record

The City Planner Behind 9/11

Mohamed Atta, one of the 9/11 terrorists, pursued a masters degree in city planning before the attacks. Slate's Daniel Brooks reads Atta's masters thesis, and finds a strain of anti-Western modernism that is revealing.
9 September 2009 - 12:00pm
Slate.com

The Securitization of Public Space

Julia Galef takes a look at Secure Cities, a new website that maps the effect of security measures on public space since 9/11.
14 July 2009 - 6:00am
Metropolis Magazine

Try, Try Again

A local committee in Easton, Connecticut, has made a suggestion on the location of a 9/11 Memorial Site -- the same site that was denied by the Planning and Zoning Commission six months ago.
26 June 2009 - 2:00pm
Connecticut Post

Proposed Skyscraper Evokes Bad Memories of 9/11

A new tower designed by architect Daniel Libeskind has a dramatic gash in the middle, which some say is too reminiscent of the horrors of 9/11.
5 January 2009 - 12:00pm
Bloomberg.com

Ground Zero Becomes Boring

Metropolis Magazine visits Ground Zero as building begins, and finds that the bold plans and architectural dreams have fizzled.
19 June 2008 - 9:00am
Metropolis Magazine

Pentagon Memorial Previews to Families

The Pentagon Memorial, dedicated to the 194 people killed at the Pentagon on Sept. 11th, opened today to families and journalists. Architects Julie Beckman and Keith Kaseman sought to evoke individual memories but express a collective whole.
26 May 2008 - 5:00am
WJLA-TV

Land Acquired for Flight 93 Memorial

The families of victims of the hijacked September 11 Flight 93 have secured more than 900 acres of land in Pennsylvania for a permanent memorial.
20 March 2008 - 7:00am
The New York Times
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