Manhattan from Jersey City on the 2002 memorial of the September 11 attacks.

The towers of light strike a cloud layer

The Tribute in Light was a temporary art installation of 88 searchlights placed next to the site of the World Trade Center from March 11 to April 14, 2002 to create two vertical columns of light in remembrance of the September 11, 2001 attacks. The tribute was launched again in 2003, to mark the second anniversary of the attack, and is done every year since on September 11, to mark the anniversary. Download high resolution version (2560x1920, 1764 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Download high resolution version (2560x1920, 1764 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Location of Jersey City within New Jersey. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... September 11 is the 254th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (255th in leap years). ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1840x2940, 275 KB) New York City, N.Y. (Sept. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1840x2940, 275 KB) New York City, N.Y. (Sept. ... WTC redirects here. ... March 11 is the 70th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (71st in Leap year). ... April 14 is the 104th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (105th in leap years). ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... The first memorials to the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks began to take shape online, as hundreds of webmasters posted their own thoughts, links to the Red Cross and other rescue agencies, photos and eyewitness accounts. ... The towers burn shortly after United Airlines Flight 175 crashed into the South Tower on the right. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... September 11 is the 254th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (255th in leap years). ...

The various people who ended up working together on the project simultaneously came up with the idea in the week following the attack.

Architects John Bennett and Gustavo Bonevardi of PROUN Space Studio distributed their "Project for the Immediate Reconstruction of Manhattan's Skyline".

Artists Julian LaVerdiere and Paul Myoda, who before September 11 were working on the 91st floor of the World Trade Center north tower on a proposed light sculpture on the giant radio antenna with Creative Time, conceived the project "Phantom Towers", and were commissioned by The New York Times Magazine to create an image of the project for its September 23 cover. September 11 is the 254th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (255th in leap years). ... The New York Times is a newspaper published in New York City by Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. ... September 23 is the 266th day of the year (267th in leap years). ...

Richard Nash Gould, a New York architect, went to the Municipal Art Society with the concept. Gould, a March 1972 graduate of Yale, was part of a firm whose SoHo office looked on the World Trade Center. Other projects by Gould include Howard, Darby & Levin in New York City and Polo Sport, Ralph Lauren in New York City. The Municipal Art Society is an arts organization on Madison Avenue in New York City (USA), which deals with public art in the city. ... Yale redirects here. ... Soho is an area of central Londons West End in the borough the City of Westminster. ... Flag Seal Nickname: Big Apple Location Location in the state of New York Government Counties (Boroughs) Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,214. ... Cover Time magazine Ralph Lauren (born Ralph Lifschitz on October 14, 1939) is an American fashion designer and business executive. ...

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The project was originally going to be named Towers of Light until some people complained that the name emphasized the buildings destroyed instead of the people killed.

Other 9/11 Memorials

• Reflecting Absence, WTC site (proposed)
• Flight 93 National Memorial, Shanksville, Pennsylvania (under development)
• Pentagon Memorial (under construction)
• International Freedom Center, WTC site (abandoned)
• Every September 11 two beams of light are lit, much like at ground zero, on top of Mount Diablo in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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External links

• "For Now, How About A Monument of Light?", New York Post, September 20, 2001
• Photographs of the 2005 Tribute in Light
• Creativetime.org: Tribute in Light — official website
  • "The Genesis of the Tribute in Light" — (large Flash media file) Artists tell the story of designing the memorial
• "Filling the Void", The New York Times Magazine, September 23, 2001 — (partial archive)
• "From 88 Searchlights, an Ethereal Tribute", The New York Times, March 4, 2002 — (partial archive)
• Richard Nash Gould Architects — official website
• Additional photographs of the tribute