commemorating 9/11 special  This weekend, on the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, President Obama will make the official dedication of the National September 11 Memorial plaza at Ground Zero with water pools in the footprints of the felled twin towers. Beneath the pools, the associated 11,000 sq. m museum is taking shape and is scheduled to open in 2012. It includes a facility to house some of the body fragments while further testing takes place, hidden behind the concrete wall of the museum’s seven-storey-high subterranean chambers. On the wall is a quotation from Virgil’s Aeneid: “No day shall erase you from the memory of time”...READ MORE The new World Trade Center site is going to be one very strange and unpleasant place, over-scaled and aggressively bereft of humane meaning, says Michael Sorkin, professor of architecture at the City College of New York David Childs on his redesign for the World Trade Center site The attacks on the twin towers have lent a kind of retrospective aura to a complex which, before it was destroyed, was less than popular, says Jean-Louis Cohen, professor of history of architecture at NYU World Trade Center masterplan is "essentially my design", says Daniel Libeskind It is still too early to tell if the new complex will remain isolated or if it will meld seamlessly into the surrounding city, says William Menking, editor-in-chief of The Architect’s Newspaper A timeline of the events that led to the rebuilding of the World Trade Center site A sculpture by the New York artist Miya Ando uses wreckage from the 11 September attacks The heart of Ground Zero will be a memorial plaza and museum dedicated to the victims of the attacks Details of the four skyscrapers planned for the new World Trade Center Original proposals for a 15-storey building have been scaled back amid opposition all 9/11 articles | 
