Flight 93 National Memorial designed by
Paul Murdoch Architects has been selected in a 2-stage competition from over a thousand entries. It will be constructed at the place where United Airlines Flight 93 crashed on September 11, 2001, in Somerset County, southwestern Pennsylvania. The memorial is to honor the passengers and crewmembers of Flight 93 who “courageously gave their lives, thereby thwarting a planned attack on the Nation’s Capital.”
There were four digital paintings originally created for the first stage of the competition. In the second stage 10 more elaborate illustrations have been prepared to further explain the architecture, the landscape and the mood of the project. The illustrations show different elements of the design in different seasons on a site that stretches over 1 mile.