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Stretching Skyward: 1 World Trade Center

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This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at WMU chapter.

1 World Trade Center, better known as Freedom Tower, was designed by Daniel Libeskind and will stand where several of the smaller World Trade Center structures once stood. The design for the buidling was called, by the New Yorker, the design that split the difference between the desire for a triumphant return to business as usual and a somber memorial.


 


The somber memorial takes the form of National September 11 Memeorial Park, a park consisting of the bases of the fallen towers turned into reflecting pools, bordered in the names of those fallen on September 11. The trees, pictured above, are being dug up from the crash sites at the Pentagon and in Pennsylvania and being replanted in the memorial park. Beneath the park will be a museum and a new transportation center for Manhattan. 
 

The current progress on Freedom Tower and the memorial park is being tracked by the Discovery Channel with hourly photographs, like the breathtaking shot included above. The scheduled completeion date is 2013.

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Katelyn Kivel is a senior at Western Michigan University studying Public Law with minors in Communications and Women's Studies. Kate took over WMU's branch of Her Campus in large part due to her background in journalism, having spent a year as Production Editor of St. Clair County Community College's Erie Square Gazette. Kate speaks English and Japanese and her WMU involvement includes being a Senator and former Senior Justice of the Western Student Association as well as President of WMU Anime Addicts and former Secretary of WMU's LBGT organization OUTspoken, and she is currently establishing the RSO President's Summit of Western Michigan University, an group composed of student organization presidents for cross-promotion and collaboration purposes. Her interests include reading and writing, both creative and not, as well as the more nerdy fringes of popular culture.