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Brown Island is a small, private island in Friday Harbor on San Juan Island, San Juan County, Washington, United States. It lies just offshore to the east-northeast of the town of Friday Harbor, Washington.
- Flight 93 National Memorial, Shanksville, Pennsylvania
- Reflect 9/11 Memorial Sculpture, Rosemead, California
- To Struggle Against World Terrorism Sculpture, Bayonne, New Jersey
- First Responders Memorial, Oak Lawn, Illinois
- Postcards, Staten Island, New York City
- Memorial Labyrinth, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
- Moving Memories, Phoenix, Arizona
In the early hours of September 11, United Airlines Flight 93 departed Newark International Airport and traveled westbound toward San Francisco. Forty-six minutes after takeoff, a group of al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked the plane and made a u-turn over Ohio, pointing the Boeing 757-222 in the direction of Washington, D.C. However, their attempt was t...
Many artists have created captivating artworks across the United States to commemorate September 11. One of them is Heath Satow, a Los Angeles-based sculptor who built Reflect, a large-scale metal structure comprised of two hands lifting a single 10-foot, 500-pound steel I-beam pulled from the World Trade Center rubble. To create the piece, which w...
Moscow-based sculptor Zurab Tsereteli was a world away when he watched the news unfold of the United States being under attack. Several weeks later, he traveled to Ground Zero where the remains of the Twin Towers still smoldered. It was then that he solidified his desire to create a monument memorializing that deadly day. The result is To Struggle ...
In 2011, Erik Blome was an artist-in-residence for the city of Oak Lawn, Illinois. During that time, he set up a temporary studio to create his First Responders Memorial. He built the memorial using four twisted 22-foot I-beams pulled from the wreckage of the Twin Towers and escorted from New York City to Oak Lawn by a team of local firefighters an...
Of thenearly 3,000people who perished on 9/11, 274 were residents of Staten Island, one of New York City’s five boroughs. This memorial designed by Masayuki Sono, a local architect, is dedicated to them. Inspired by the art of origami paper folding, the piece is comprised of two massive fiber glass structures that resemble folded postcards. Postcar...
Labyrinths are popular places for anyone seeking silence and reflection, so it’s no surprise that there would be one built as a way to commemorate 9/11. Completed in 2003, the Memorial Labyrinth is tucked away on the Boston College campus in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, ten miles west of downtown Boston. Although not much is written about the laby...
Utilizing Phoenix’s roughly 300 days of sunshine, the Moving Memories monument by architect Eddie Jones and coLAB Studio, a cooperative of artists and architects based in nearby Tempe, changes throughout the day. The circular structure, which is located in downtown Phoenix, is made up of a series of stainless-steel panels featuring 54 laser-cut ins...
The National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial is a national memorial dedicated to the tragic events that occurred on Sept. 11, 2001. All 184 lives lost in the attack on the Pentagon are represented by “Memorial Unit” benches.
Sep 10, 2021 · In D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser recounted the six names of D.C. public school students and teachers lost on 9/11: Asia Cottom, Bernard Brown, and Rodney Dickens, and Hilda Taylor, James...
Sixteen years earlier, before the 9/11 attacks upended the couple’s world, it was Mariam el Fazazi who had lived as a virtual prisoner, unable to leave her apartment or socialize without her...
Department of Defense photo by Lisa Ferdinando. Introduction. On the morning of 11 September 2001, 19 terrorists from the Islamist extreme group al Qaeda hijacked four commercial aircraft and...
The Pentagon Memorial, formally the National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial, located just southwest of the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., is a permanent outdoor memorial to the 184 people who died as victims in the building and on American Airlines Flight 77 during the September 11 attacks.
