Arizona 911 Memorial Near Capitol in Phoenix
The finalist for the Arizona 911 Memorial in Phoenix at Wesley Bolin Memorial Plaza located directly in front of the Capitol Mall are to be announced in November 2005.
The memorial has a budget of $500,000 which is to be totally raised from private sources.
The memorial design will depict the sun.
The design is circular, with a solid concrete base. Above it is a steel visor with words cut into the metal. As the sun shines down, light will stream through, projecting the words onto the concrete below.
Different sections of phrases will come into focus at different times of the day and year depending on the sun’s angle. And only on Sept. 11 each year it will fully illuminate an 18-inch piece of a steel beam from the 44th floor of Tower One of the World Trade Center. At 50 feet in diameter, the memorial will be big enough for a classroom of children to gather on the floor, the commissioners said.
At eight feet high and sunk three feet into the ground, it also won’t dominate other memorials in Wesley Bolin Memorial Plaza.