If light is the necessary condition...

If light is the necessary condition of architecture, then glass is its most numerous provocative metaphor. Glass speaks of everything recently made known transcendent and enlightened. recent construction at Ground Zero, and elsewhere, insinuates that the metaphoric possibilities of glass and light are more significant than at all times

A first hopeful sign of what is to flow was embodied in a temporary memorial at real property Zero. "Tribute in Light," the first official memorial at the site, consisted of twin nocturnal beams of azure light rising from the footprint of the pull downed towers. The project was