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Out of the ashes: the legacy of 9/11

Ten years after the devastating attacks on New York, does the reconstruction do justice to the site, and to the victims?

Published online: 08 September 2011

Comment: Controversy, compromise and what might have been

The new World Trade Center site is going to be one very strange and unpleasant place, over-scaled and aggressively bereft of humane meaning

Published online: 08 September 2011

Breaking up the superblock

David Childs on his redesign for the World Trade Center site

Published online: 08 September 2011

Comment: In the shadow of no architecture

The attacks on the twin towers have lent a kind of retrospective aura to a complex which, before it was destroyed, was less than popular

Published online: 08 September 2011

The Freedom Tower still stands—just under another name

World Trade Center masterplan is "essentially my design", says Daniel Libeskind

Published online: 08 September 2011

Doggie do-gooders

While we remember the victims and first responders on 9/11, the American Humane Association...

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• The Life and Death of Buildings, Princeton University Art Museum
• Remembering 9/11, New-York Historical Society
• September 11, MoMA PS1
• 9/11 Tenth Anniversary, National September 11 Memorial & Museum
• Remembering 9/11, International Center of Photography (ICP)
• 194X–9/11: American Architects and the City, Museum of Modern Art
• 9/11 Peace Story Quilt, Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Documenting a Decade: from September 11, 2001 to Today, New York State Museum
• Ten Years Later: Ground Zero Remembered, Brooklyn Museum
• [Swi:t] Home: a Chant, New Museum
• Remember 9.11: Reflections and Memories from New Jersey, New Jersey State Museum
• 9/11 Remembered, New York City Police Museum
• Excavating Ground Zero: Fragments from 9/11, University of Pennsylvania Museum
• New York, New York, Heckscher Museum of Art
• Recovery: the World Trade Center Recovery Operation at Fresh Kills, The Museum of Mobile
• September 11: Remembrance and Reflection, National Museum of American History
• Witness to Global Conflict: 9/11 and Beyond, Fruitlands Museum
• Bruce Conner, Falling Leaves: an Anonymous Memorial, Paula Cooper Gallery
• Charting Ground Zero: Ten Years After, Woodward Gallery
• Al Braithwaite: Twinned Towers, Leila Heller Gallery (LTMH)