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| World Trade Center's centerpiece sculpture to return |
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This file photo taken on March 10, 2002 shows a family member of a September 11 victim walking away after placing a flower at the heavily damaged remains of "Sphere," in New York. The sculpture "The Sphere Plaza Fountain," which stood in front of New York's World Trade Center before the September 11, 2001 attacks, is set to return to the site. Unveiled in 1971, even before the completion of the Twin Towers two years later, the 25-foot (eight-meter) centerpiece by the German artist Fritz Koenig was only partly damaged during the buildings' collapse. Removed from the site, it was installed in several places before ending up in Battery Park at Manhattan's southern tip for the past 14 years.The "Sphere" is now set to be installed in Liberty Park, a new elevated garden at the World Trade Center opened last month, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said in a statement on July 21, 2016. Matt CAMPBELL / AFP.
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NEW YORK (AFP).- The sculpture "The Sphere Plaza Fountain," which stood in front of New York's World Trade Center before the September 11, 2001 attacks, is set to return to the site.
Unveiled in 1971, even before the completion of the Twin Towers two years later, the 25-foot (eight-meter) centerpiece by the German artist Fritz Koenig was only partly damaged during the buildings' collapse.
Removed from the site, it was installed in several places before ending up in Battery Park at Manhattan's southern tip for the past 14 years.
The "Sphere" is now set to be installed in Liberty Park, a new elevated garden at the World Trade Center opened last month, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said in a statement on Thursday.
With the sculpture's original location in the middle of what is now a newly restored street, the 23-tonne bronze artwork will overlook the memorial to victims of the attack.
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