The NYT's Glenn Collins and David Dunlap have a transfixing and revelatory article about details of the WTC Memorial Jury's deliberations and process for the first time. Twelve of the thirteen jurors spoke with the reporters.
It turns out even the jurors were underwhelmed by the revised designs their finalists came up with. And Martin Puryear's dismissal of Michael Kimmelman's call for elitism to save us is right on.
Of course, Felix Salmon's analysis is also right on, that it was essentially the jury that designed--and continues to design--the Memorial, and that Arad's design was picked because it was the most amenable to their impending directives.
