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WORLD TRADE CENTER SITE - GROUND ZERO

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2024
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Since the dramatic attacks of 11 September 2001 and the collapse of the towers, which killed nearly 3,000 people, there has been a strange atmosphere surrounding Ground Zero. The area is still cut off by numerous barricades and police officers are on every street corner. This huge secure area has become a place of pilgrimage. The entire site will not be completed until 2020. On February 27, 2003, the think tank responsible for deciding on the reconstruction of the World Trade Center made its choice. Among six projects proposed by some of the world's leading architects, Memory Foundations, Daniel Libeskind and his team called THINK were chosen. Its aesthetics, its performance, its symbolism and, above all, its connection between memory and the future had to convince New York decision-makers. But by July 2003, the data had changed again under the leadership of Larry Silverstein, who had been the site's landlord since July 2001 (just under two months before 9/11). Libeskind's project is partially abandoned, although Libeskind continues to supervise the overall construction of the One World Trade Center. In particular, architect David Childs of the SOM agency (Skidmore, Owings, Merrill) is in charge of the design of the new skyscraper. In September 2005, other projects entrusted to other renowned architects were unveiled to the public: the World Trade Center site was to consist of seven buildings. However, in May 2009, with the help of the economic crisis, the projects are still changing and six towers will finally come out of the ground.

Ground Zero is now a highly emotional memorial site and a political symbol. But the World Trade Center site is also a strategic real estate location in the heart of the world's most important financial centre. Hence the great dilemma between the place given to memory and that reserved for office and commercial space. The reconstruction has proved to be extremely complicated and controversial, torn between the frictions of the designers, the weight of the economic crisis, the financial interests and the emotions of the city dwellers and victims. In addition to the crisis, it also took time to reach an agreement with the insurance companies.

Today, the whole world is in a hurry to admire the new towers and memorials, symbols of the city's resilience.

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Jenny0622
Visited in march 2022
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Mémorial
Mémorial à visiter en parallèle du musée. À ne pas louper.
Bouboue27
Visited in november 2021
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Emotion garantie
La présence de ces 2 bassins à la place des anciennes tours, avec le nom de toutes les personnes disparues le 11 septembre donne clairement des frissons. L'émotion est énorme. Ce lieux de recueillement est à faire.
Albus
Visited in january 2019
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Ground zéro
L’extérieur avec ses deux grands bassins nous oblige à ne pas oublier. C’est difficile d’imaginer qu’il s’ est passé un drame tant cet endroit est calme. Par contre je n’ai pas aimé le Mémorial. Je l’ai trouvé trop commercial et pas assez intimiste.
sel75011
Visited in september 2019
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Émotion et recueillement
Pour tous ceux qui ont suivi le 11 septembre 2001, ce lieu a une raisonnance particulière. Ici c'est le silence qui est marquant. On se rappelle des événements, et pensons évidemment aux victimes.
elodie95
Visited in august 2018
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un site très émouvant
les 2 immenses fontaines qui sont à la place des 2 tours sont très émouvantes et c'est un vrai lieu de recueillement. On sent un grand respect de tous les touristes qui y viennent...

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