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Here's a CNN story about upcoming 9/11 ceremonies:

http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/08/06/ny.911/index.html

Yes more creepy CNN husky anchorage; what I like is the virtual debate
(everything is virtual now see, they were right) about how to build on the
site.

I have an idea that I think is better than the six I saw little clips of,
that I guess no one really likes. Also, there was an issue of the New Yorker
(my new media source) that had a bunch of drawings and conceptualizations,
one by Jenny Holzer (right?) who is a digital artist you could say, text
artist, projectionista.

Some of the drawings were whimsical (two exact downward holes), and Art
Spiegelman's was very dark, 110 one-story buildings the size of people.

But if you think about the purpose of the site, what it has to perform, you
have the basics of memorial, office space, structural safety, and you could
add in "hope" or "art" to the requirements.

I'm thinking four 50-story buildings, all the same but very nice, basically
square, each at a corner of the site. Then a big park, with a big
museum-type glass and steel Millennium Hut in the center, aligned on a
north/south/east/west axis but appearing basically circular.

This would be a cheap and excellent idea, creating an excellent public space
with gardens, galleries, performance spaces, greenspace, food, and learning.
The Millennium Hut relates to the Hebrew tradition of the sukkhot, the Latin
tradition of the Duomo, and the Islamic forms as well.

So, this is my idea. I imagine that most new yorkers would support it.
Therefore I'd appreciate any work on the pros and cons of such a plan in both
financial and site-specific terms.

The design of the Hut could follow some of the principles of Herzog and de
Meuron's new Walker Addition, using some of its very quality languages.

What is the net-art take on the site for NYers onlist? It's a fascinating
example of collective imagination, assessment of needs, repair, recovery, and
really a collective statement for the entire USA.

I wish I could do it alone, but I can't, so anyone interested in a serious
group proposal please contact me directly. Especially people who know the
site, which I haven't seen–I never even saw the original buildings close up,
when I visited.

The proposal would benefit from hopefully categorized writings, drawings of
the Hut concept, digital models, financial or engineering issues, site
aesthetics like traffic and the subway. What is the political feeling for
the site for residents? The financial and digital networks of the site
should even be rendered in the spirit of the entire site aesthetic.

Not a religious aesthetic, certainly non-denominational and appreciative of
the arts and science of all cultures. It's a problem similar to those of
De-Architecture. Needs lots of art-historical interpretation and exegesis,
articulate principles of design, comprehension, qualification. Symbolic
justificational ideation.

I'll do some drawings for it today, to get out the beige cabinet; I got graph
paper, I got a ruler.

Tony
genius2000.net
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