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Originally Posted by Mr. Lion
Im just gonna through this out here, for a short discussion. As most of us know, there were 7 final designs that were not chosen. Whats your favorite design out of the other 7. Besides saying your favorite of the 7, lets keep it on topic.
![](http://www.wtcsitememorial.org/fin5.html)
Votives in Suspension
![](http://www.wtcsitememorial.org/images/fin6/opener.jpg)
Suspending Memory
![](http://www.wtcsitememorial.org/images/fin1/opener.jpg)
Lower Waters
![](http://www.wtcsitememorial.org/images/fin0/opener.jpg)
Garden of Lights
![](http://www.wtcsitememorial.org/images/fin2/main.jpg)
Passages of Light: Memorial Cloud
![](http://www.wtcsitememorial.org/images/fin3/opener.jpg)
Inversion of Light
![](http://www.wtcsitememorial.org/images/fin4/opener.jpg)
Dual Memory
![](http://www.wtcsitememorial.org/finalists.html)
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The designs had all seemed to be too complex. Very busy looking, to the point that they are overwhelming. I like subtle simplistic nature of the current design. The water falling into the voids is powerful in itself. The plaza should be timeless and not over designed.
Suspending in memory is loud and obtrusive with those colorful structures, and there's no clarity in the footprint of the original buildings at ground level where most of the people will experience the plaza. They clearly designed this from above and not on the ground.
Gardens of lights seems a little strange, and somewhat harsh with all the bright lights against darkness it will create. The light of a memorial plaza should be soft and diffused, no hard contrast.
Passages of light. Absurdly architectural. Let the skyscrapers be the architectural voices, NOT the plaza. Nature and space are timeless. A structure that will date itself after a few decades looks...well...like an outdated memorial in need of renovation. The public's taste in architecture changes, but nature and the simple voids in the plaza are universal design for eternity.
Inversion of light looks good in the renderings, but I'm not convinced when I think of the realities of New York's cold winter climate. I doubt you'll feel that warm glow, rather this would feel like a dark subterranean plaza
Dual memory looks like a convention hall.
A couple of the images are broken so I can't see them, but I'd say even the 2nd place design would actually be a very distant 2nd. What they are building right now is truly spectacular and a genius design.