The proposal called "Votives in Suspension," for instance, realistically walks the viewer around an upper plaza, before stepping down, out of the sunlight, into a darkened memorial space below; "Passages of Light" and "Garden of Lights," by contrast, lift the viewer off the floor and let him zoom around the air as no ordinary pedestrian could ever hope to do, except perhaps in a dream.
A couple of members of the L.M.D.C.'s board, Carl Weisbrod and Madelyn Wils, who represent the lower Manhattan business and residential communities, objected to the sunken memorial space, because some of their constituents don't want to walk around it to get from Battery Park City to the subway.
The master plan that was eventually selected, by Daniel Libeskind, split the difference, arranging a number of office towers around a memorial space occupying the footprint of the Twin Towers.
Among possible changes, an official said, is raising the level of the floor of the memorial space in the Libeskind design and adjusting the height of the Think team's towers downward.
"The participants thought it had by far the most powerful treatment of the memorial space".
Mr. Libeskind has proposed to "buffer the memorial space from the everyday activities of the city" by extending one museum, like a bridge, over the site of the north tower and cantilevering another museum above the site of the south tower.
The Catalan club's players and officials, along with thousands of fans, have visited a memorial space at the Nou Camp following his death.
In Lower Waters, a granite-clad memorial space would fill the north footprint, with a grove of trees in the south.
This is the central memorial space in this country".
In 1996, standing in the memorial space--the Hall of Remembrance--of the completed Museum building, Elie referred to the "long overdue" effort to create the Committee on Conscience.
