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FLIGHT 93 NATIONAL MEMORIAL

Paul Murdoch Architects, with Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects, won the 2-stage competition for a national memorial and park to occur at the site where United Airlines Flight 93 crashed on September 11, 2001, in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. The memorial will honor the passengers and crewmembers of Flight 93 who “courageously gave their lives, thereby thwarting a planned attack on the Nation’s Capital.”

The design features a tower, marking the gateway to the memorial site, that will hold 40 wind chimes whose sounds evoke the memories of those who are honored. The design embraces the place and memory of Flight 93 with a curving arc of maple trees along a walkway framing a Field of Honor, with a focus on the crash site. At the western end of the curving landform is a Portal, defined by walls that frame the axis of the Flight Path to the crash site. Adjacent to the Flight Path will be the Visitor Center, the interpretive center for the memorial and park. A sloped, stone wall forms the edge to the crash site within the Sacred Ground. The fields of the Sacred Ground will be planted with flowers to bloom from Spring through Fall. A white stone slab and gate, on axis with the flight path, provides ceremonial entry to the Sacred Ground for family members.

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