
THE BEGINNING OF THE 21ST CENTURYIV
TOWERS OF LIGHT
BIBLIOTHECA
ALEXANDRINA
TOWERS OF LIGHT
New York, New York, USA
various architects and designers
New York, New York, USA
BIBLIOTHECA ALEXANDRINA
BUILDING FACADE
Alexandria, Egypt
Snøhetta (est. 1989), Architects
Oslo, Norway
2002
2002
The Towers of Light was a commemorative art
installation comprising eighty-eight search-
lights at the original site of the World Trade
Center that created two vertical columns of
light in remembrance of the September 11
attacks on New York City.
While initially planned as a temporary
lighting installation, the Towers of Light was
continued annually through to the tenth anni- ...