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And I'm Faith Lapidus. This week, five years after the September eleventh attacks, we examine what is being done to rebuild Ground Zero in New York.
Architects competed to design a plan to restore Ground Zero. In two thousand three, Daniel Libeskind of Studio Libeskind was chosen. Some of his best known buildings are museums, including the Jewish Museum in Berlin.
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, Larry Silverstein had hired architect David Childs of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. Mister Childs had been hired to make some changes to the existing World Trade Center. Later, Mister Silverstein asked Mister Childs to help work on the plans for the Freedom Tower, after the criticism of the Libeskind proposals.
Architects Libeskind and Childs worked together in the second half of two thousand three. But it was not a happy partnership. The design process was reorganized. David Childs became the architect of the Freedom Tower. In the spring of two thousand five, police officials raised concerns about the security of the proposed building.
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Mister Libeskind proposed plans for the Freedom Tower as part of his master plan for Ground Zero. But his plans called for separate architects for the buildings. That idea was criticized. Some people also said his vision of the Freedom Tower was too large and costly.
The plans for Ground Zero include a memorial, a museum and a visitors' center. The memorial will honor the victims of September eleventh and of the nineteen ninety-three bombing of the Twin Towers.
Crews are now working on support columns for the memorial. The work stopped for a while in the summer when giving for the project slowed and costs were increasing. A re-design was ordered, and the Port Authority has now take responsibility for the work.
The building known as Seven World Trade Center was also destroyed on September eleventh. Four other buildings were torn down later because of damage.
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Most of Mister Libeskind's ideas were gone from the new design for the Freedom Tower, such as windmills to help provide energy. But the new plans kept his proposal for a total height of about five hundred forty-one meters, including a needle-like spire on top.
Our program was written by Jerilyn Watson and produced by Mario Ritter. Transcripts and audio files of our programs can be downloaded at WWW.51VOA.COM. I'm Steve Ember.
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But the job of planning has also been huge. Many agencies are involved. And so are many individuals. They include survivors of Nine-Eleven,You are not allowed to view links.
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, family members of the victims and people who live near Ground Zero.
Current plans call for occupancy in two thousand eleven.
Another memorial will open much sooner opposite the World Trade Center site. A museum of memories called the Tribute Center is to welcome the public beginning September eighteenth. Four rooms in the center tell the story of the Twin Towers from their first days through their last.
Crews working seven days a week repaired the damage to the Pentagon. Some office workers were back in less than a year in the area that had been struck. Work on a memorial to the victims at the Pentagon began this June.
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The city and state of New York and insurance payments for the Twin Towers are to help finance the Freedom Tower.
With the spire, the building will be one thousand seven hundred seventy-six feet tall. Seventeen seventy-six is an important number to Americans. It was the year the United States declared its independence from Britain.
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, have slowed progress at Ground Zero.
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In late July, New York Governor George Pataki announced good news for the project. He said the General Services Administration, a federal agency, is expected to occupy a large share of the office space.
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, Mister Silverstein agreed to a proposal that aims to make sure there is enough money to complete the project. If this complex agreement becomes final, it could represent a big step toward restoring all of Ground Zero.
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Mister Silverstein was able to rebuild Seven World Trade Center, which he owned. But payments from insurance policies did not provide enough money to rebuild all of Ground Zero.
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, two thousand nine.
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, as well as an observation deck for visitors. Plans also call for a Beacon of Freedom -- a powerful light to shine from the spire.
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The memorial is called "Reflecting Absence." The design by Michael Arad and Peter Walker won an international competition. Their design places reflecting pools and waterfalls around where the towers stood.
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, at a cost estimated at more than two thousand million dollars.
By Jerilyn Watson and produced by Mario Ritter
2006-9-10
But the project to build a memorial has faced design and financing delays. It has also incited some of the most emotional disputes in the debate over what to do with Ground Zero.
Arguments about safety and appearance have at times been highly emotional.
Mister Silverstein recently announced that more than eight hundred tons of steel is being produced in Luxembourg to provide supports for the Freedom Tower. Kenneth Ringler leads the Port Authority. Mister Ringler said the steel supports will go up early next year. He said this would show the public that work is moving along.
The Freedom Tower is expected to rise from a sixty-one meter high base. There are also plans for extensive fire protection systems as well as wide stairways to make an escape to safety easier in an emergency.
And I'm Faith Lapidus. Please join us again next week for THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English.
So far, only Seven World Trade Center has been rebuilt. The new high-rise building opened in May.
The agreement calls for Mister Silverstein to give control of the Freedom Tower to the Port Authority. The Port Authority then would pay him to direct the building of the tower. The agency also would guarantee occupants for the Freedom Tower. Mister Silverstein and the Port Authority would divide responsibility for other buildings on the site.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey owns the World Trade Center property. But developer Larry Silverstein signed a ninety-nine year lease to operate the World Trade Center. He did so in July of two thousand one, just weeks before the attacks. Since then he has paid millions of dollars in rent each month for the Twin Towers and other buildings that no longer exist.
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, workers in Lower Manhattan finally broke ground for a high-rise office building called the Freedom Tower. The Freedom Tower is at the center of plans to redevelop the seven-hectare area now known as Ground Zero.
Mister Childs hurried to make changes. Within just a few weeks, the new plans for the Freedom Tower were presented. That was in June of last year. David Childs set the building farther back from the street, to leave more room for a public plaza area. Being farther back from traffic would also provide more security against a terrorist attack from the street.
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Ground Zero is the name for where the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center stood until September eleventh, two thousand one. Members of al-Qaida flew hijacked passenger airplanes into the towers. More than two thousand seven hundred people were killed as the buildings collapsed and disappeared from the New York skyline.
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In all, the attacks five years ago killed almost three thousand people. Islamic
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I use all of my really, waiting in searching their love, he finally came, so the joy is to make my life last only one second I am willing, will be a All the hard work, give up all hope of dignity to the guardian of love, no water, I use my tears to water, no fertilizer, when I love to care for, hard to add, but why sleep dream of true love followed by remorse?
I backed off, afraid of my love, God's waiting for me not sure, I unfair to me I could do nothing, give me the pain of childhood lingering soul, touch the can not afford, and now I recognize the hit, I just want to ask you - I do not expect happiness, and I can only wish you to give me a little less fight, give me that line is not happy? Oh heart of love to the negative end is futile, but your soul in exchange for love as a game.
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Many New Yorkers are angry that the huge hole at Ground Zero has yet to be filled with new buildings. They say it has taken too long to rebuild this economically important part of America's financial capital.
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