swami
07-10-2005, 20:09
The planned building at Ground Zero that was to have housed the International Freedom Center.
"The I.F.C. cannot be located on the memorial quadrant," Mr. Pataki said in a statement. That quadrant, at the southwest corner of the trade center site, contains the footprints of the twin towers.
The Freedom Center, picked for the memorial site by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, was envisioned as a living memorial in which the story of Sept. 11, 2001, would be told in the context of the worldwide struggle for freedom through the ages.
Critics said the sacred precinct of the memorial was no place for a lesson in geopolitics or social history, particularly when a separate memorial museum devoted solely to 9/11 was being planned entirely underground, within the trade center foundations.
complete story : LINK (http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=111217)
I.F.C.'s response : LINK (http://www.ifcwtc.org/sept2005_article6.html)
"The I.F.C. cannot be located on the memorial quadrant," Mr. Pataki said in a statement. That quadrant, at the southwest corner of the trade center site, contains the footprints of the twin towers.
The Freedom Center, picked for the memorial site by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, was envisioned as a living memorial in which the story of Sept. 11, 2001, would be told in the context of the worldwide struggle for freedom through the ages.
Critics said the sacred precinct of the memorial was no place for a lesson in geopolitics or social history, particularly when a separate memorial museum devoted solely to 9/11 was being planned entirely underground, within the trade center foundations.
complete story : LINK (http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=111217)
I.F.C.'s response : LINK (http://www.ifcwtc.org/sept2005_article6.html)