This
computer-generated collage of images represents the proposal of
a pair of Notre Dame architecture faculty for a Pentagon memorial
honoring victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks. Dino Marcantonio
and Paloma Pajares' design was one of 84 selected for display
at the National Building Museum in Washington last fall out of
the more than 1,100 submissions. Their proposal wasn't one of
the six finalists, but Wall Street Journal architecture
writer Catesby Leigh praised it in an editorial as an "outstanding
classical design" that would have created an "inspiring work of
civic art" and appealing landmark. The concept features a "cenotaph"
or monument to the dead as high as the Pentagon itself and inscribed
with the names of the 184 people killed at the site.
