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— As the nation reels from the
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nd Washington, Texas A&M
kguies, beginning Thursday,
re eing asked to consider a
uittible memorial to those
illtkl in another disaster when
huge stack of logs intended
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|x»nvor culpture of a phoenix or a gar-
fruit and oak trees,
shortage of ideas.
^H)n display through Monday
t the J. Wayne Stark University
.enter Galleries on the College
^Bon campus are 176 ideas
'yir g to be the one chosen as
^■design for the memorial to
lonjor the 12 Aggies killed and
, of war mi>7 others injured when the bon-
nenca. bu: - i re fell Nov. 18, 1999.
unbowed. .^^11 of the designs, which
* no such tt-dso can be v iewed on the bon-
sponse to .' i re memorial Website, are dis-
>aid Rep daved on two 36-inch by 24-
Ncv, "Ttemcli presentation boards. Many
ivengeu laVt ' been professionally creat-
idlwith elaborate computer
f gradual ^^Phics or photographs while
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, ‘ jlack and white. Most entries
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^Feoplc can submit their com-
ents at Ai merits on the Website but a nine-
member jury will choose the
four finalists and the eventual
winner.
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the jury.” said George Rogers,
head of A&M's Department of
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Landscape Architecture and
Urban Planning and one of the
people coordinating the memo
rial design competition.
Many proposed designs are
variations of walls, some curv
ing in a half circle, and have
the victims’ names etched or
engraved on them, or replicas
or representations of the 59-
foot-high, wedding cake-like
log stack.
Some entries have veered
from traditional designs for such
memorials.
One proposes a sculpture of a
phoenix, the mythical bird, that
every 12 years will have a new
protective glaze burned over its
surface. Another is a 36-foot-
high stainless steel structure that
looks like the Roman numeral
12, in honor of those killed.
All entries are from the
United States except for four
from Canada, the Philippines,
Switzerland and Turkey.
Four campus sites have been
proposed for the memorial,
including the bonfire site on the
university’s polo fields.
The jury will select four
finalists on Nov. 18, the second
anniversary of the collapse. The
final design will be chosen
March 7.
The four finalists each will
each receive $10,000 as prize
money plus another $10,000 to
further develop and refine their
designs.
“There won’t be a design
that can satisfy everyone,”
acknowledged Chang-Shan
Huang, director of the Office for
the Bonfire Memorial Design
Competition.
The designs of the finalists
also will be reviewed by a com
mittee comprised of family
members of the victims as well
as students, administrators, fac
ulty and staff.
Other proposed designs
include a memorial park that
has an amphitheater, trees and
sculptures; sculptures of 12
people raising up four logs;
and a collection of 12 rings
suspended on wires that are
connected to five columns that
have etched on them a poem by
one of the victims, Jeremy
Frampton.
Private donations are being
used to pay for the design com
petition and the memorial’s con
struction.
Hans Butzer, one of the
designers of the Oklahoma City
bombing memorial and an assis
tant professor of architecture
and urban design at the
University of Oklahoma, is
among those on the jury.
Architect Richard West,
whose son, Nathan Scott West,
was killed in the collapse, is also
on the panel, as well as a current
student, a former student and a
professor.
The 90-year-old bonfire tra
dition was suspended until at
least November 2002 after a
commission blamed the col
lapse on flawed construction
techniques and a lack of super
vision of students assembling
the stack.
A steering committee is
developing a revamped bonfire
with greater school supervi
sion and a professionally engi
neered design.
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