The great square voids in the plaza marking where the twin towers stood are fully formed and almost entirely clad in charcoal-gray granite.
Family members were allowed to visit the site where the memorial pools — huge square voids that are to be lined with waterfalls — are only now beginning to take shape.
One of the more remarkable new insights offered yesterday was Mr. Arad's description of his original notion for a memorial: two square voids in the Hudson River, near the trade center site but forever inaccessible, expressing inconsolable loss.
This is the street-level expanse where groves of white oaks and sweet gum trees will rise around two square voids — marking where the twin towers stood — bordered by the names of the dead and filled with waterfalls and pools.
That doesn't mean that the square voids the Pools' water drains into will ever become memory holes; just that victory, in this case, can also be defined as people meeting at the edge of the water for coffee, with, at least sometimes, no thought of bin Laden, or of anybody but each other.
The dynamic response caused by the sudden appearance of a flaw in materials in which square voids are distributed in a doubly periodic manner is investigated.
Sunburned Hand of the Man will be debuting their new Twelve Rules for Black Square Voids: A Long, Irrational Projection.
THE building has sat there, empty and brooding, for more than 11 years, 110,000 square feet of void at the edge of one of this suburban town's most lively areas of small shops, restaurants and movie theaters.
At the center of the pools water fell gently into a smaller square into the void.
The design of the open structures, two large empty squares leading to more void, mark the absence of the lives taken.
