The redesign of the "cultural building" in the "memorial plaza" at Ground Zero was unveiled this week and the 72-foot-high pavilion will house two "trident" columns that were part of the base of one of the twin towers of the World Trade Center that were demolished in the terrorist attacks seven years ago today.

The main "memorial" is two large square sunken pools in a forest, although some observers felt that a far more fitting and dramatic memorial would have been the angled remains of the base and the very beautiful "Tribute in Light," the two columns of light that project upwards to the heavens.

The pavilion has been designed by Snohetta, which is headed by Craig Dykers and is based in Oslo and New York. The pavilion will serve as an entrance to the underground exhibition galleries of the National September 11 Memorial and Museum. Its ground floor will have ticket windows and a large security area as well as a staircase, escalators and elevators that will take visitors about 70 feet below street level near an exposed part of the slurry wall of the former World Trade Center.

It will also have a 180-sear auditorium and a small caf¿. An article by David W. Dunlap in the September 10, 2008 edition of The New York Times said "it was not yet known whether an admission fee will be charged at the museum" where about two million visitors are expected annually. The article also indicated that the angled but highly visible pavilion will be clad in metal, "stainless steel, if the budget permits."

Snohetta was selected in 2004 to design a large, rectilinear, major cultural complex at the site that initially was supposed to house the Drawing Center in SoHo and the International Freedom Center. Like most of Ground Zero, the design has been substantially tinkered with and shrunk.