This proposed scheme is, in itself, a memorial, consisting of an interconnected series of five buildings creating acathedral-like enclosure. A vast public plaza forms around the connected footprints by a protective ring of towers.The inspiration for the design was to create a living memorial that develops over time, with the entire World TradeCenter site – from the earth to the sky – becoming both a monument to the past and a vision for the future.The two inviolate footprints frame the view upward to the United Towers that enclose and protect the site as acontinuous ring at the 60th fl oor.The memorial experience continues into dedicated elevators that bring visitors to a Sky Memorial at the top oftower one. The Sky Memorial gives view back to the site from a great height.This project is exhibited as part of the permanent collection at the the Museum of Modern Art, MoMA in New YorkCity.