Prince Charles and Camilla Dedicate British Memorial Garden Across from Ground Zero
Prince Charles and Camilla in their first public overseas trip dedicated a plaque at Hanover Square near Ground Zero to honor the 67 Britons killed on 9/11.
The park is to be renamed British Memorial Garden.
The park which had been a nondescript concrete enclave port is being transformed with trees and its central memorial will be a 6 meter high monument designed by Anish Kapoor.
“The proposed memorial is for an object roughly 6 meters high by 2.5 meters wide by 1.5 meters deep. It is a block of black granite into which a vertical chamber is carved of approximately 1 meter by 2.5 meters by 80 centimeters in depth. The inner chamber is polished to give a mirrored surface. The chamber reflects light so as to form a column, which hovers, ghost-like, in the void of the stone. This very physically monolithic object then appears to create within itself an ephemeral reflection akin to an eternal flame.”
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