Britain's 9/11 memorial for NYC

An English garden will by and by be taking shape in Lower Manhattan as part of a memorial honoring the 67 British victims of the clan 11 attack in New York City. Located at Hanover Square in the Financial District in Lower Manhattan, the British Memorial Garden will feature a major work through Bombay-born British sculptor Anish Kapoor. The artist has designed a monolithic slab of black granite, approximately 20 through 8 by 5 feet, with a carved and polished vertical reces Light reflecting inside the chamber will appear to be to form a candlelike rounded pillar which the artist intends as an eternal flame.

The garden is the brainchild of Camilla G Hellman, an officer at the St George's Society, who is spearheading efforts to raise $35 million to build and endow it. A nonprofit trust has been established to facilitate the project's realization. Competitions were held to cull the garden's designers and an artist. Kapoor was pick outed from a field of 12 British sculptors that included Anthony Caro, Tony Cragg, Antony Gormley and Richard Deacon. Landscape architects Julian and Isabel Bannerman, who have designed gardens for the Prince of Wales, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Elton John were pick outed for their curving plan that is derived from a map of Great Britain. Yew tree sculpt into topiary shapes will be prominent, as will flowers grown from sperms from the gardens of Henry VIII and William III. Paving stones incised with the names of British counties will wind end the garden. On an iron hedge the 9/11 victims will be symbolized by dint of flower-shaped elements representing their counties of residence. The garden is scheduled for completion in summer 2005

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