9/11 Memorial

The memorial just gave me a sense of something unfinished. The grass was just carpeted (or whatever the proper verb is), the trees just planted, the building still under construction.There was a general rushed sense to the project, seen in the lack of proper walkways and makeshift barricades.

Therefore there was a lot of noise from both traffic and the building teams that took away from the more subdued and quiet nature of a memorial. In about 10 years the place will be completely different, the construction will be finished (hopefully) and the trees will grow into mature solid oaks, which will shelter the place from unnecessary sound. I feel that the architect hoped that the loudest thing in the memorial would be the waterfalls. Though I would not call the two holes my cup of tea, I feel that the sound of falling water will be soothing, like that of a waterfall, when it is not mixed with honking and drilling.

There was also a very heavy police presence but I believe that in the future, all the cameras will be placed accordingly and most cops on the seen will be undercover. There will also be fewer visitors as the novelty of the monument will fade and therefore less need for cops.

The only really unfortunate thing about ground zero is the time it took to build the memorial/new complex or rather the time spent preparing to build. For about nine years nothing was done and the in one year we have almost finished skyscrapers. I have a sad feeling that there was either extraordinary incompetency or someone enriched himself.