About the World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition
The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) administered the World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition. Through this competition, the jury selected a design for a single memorial that remembers and honors all loss of life on September 11, 2001, and February 26, 1993. The LMDC received an enormous outpouring of ideas from across the globe with over 13,000 registrants and over 5,000 Memorial submissions from 63 nations.
Competitors were advised to design concepts that are consistent with the Memorial Mission Statement and Program developed by committees convened by the LMDC that included family members, residents, survivors, first responders, arts and architecture professionals and community leaders.
This was an open international competition that was conducted in two stages. The first stage (Stage I) required the submission of anonymous design concepts on a single presentation board. Members of the Memorial Competition jury evaluated the submissions. At the end of Stage I, the jury selected eight finalists to proceed to a second stage (Stage II) during which the finalists further developed their design concepts.
The guidelines for the competition included details of the Memorial Mission Statement and Program, instructions for registration and submission, presentation requirements and recommendations, and other essential information for participation.