Home News and Society How a vision for the 9/11 Memorial blossomed into a piece of New York’s everyday fabric How a vision for the 9/11 Memorial blossomed into a piece of New York’s everyday fabric News and Society 0 Comment Michael Arad set out to capture the “real history” of Sept. 11, 2001. His 9/11 Memorial design was selected out of a pool of 5,201 entries.