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The long and challenging process of memorializing the World Trade Center victims has taken a substantial step forward with the selection of eight finalists in an open competition sponsored by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation. Guided by a mission statement and program, 13 jurors-a family member and professionals from the worlds of art and architecture among them-"sought designs that represent the heights of imagination while incorporating aesthetic grace and spiritual strength."
While the competition program set specific site-related and technical parameters, the mission statement served as the over-arching brief for the...