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Photo Credits: @DeanPowell.com and Joseph Jaroff
September 11th Memorial
Hoboken, New Jersey
Monlithic glass and stainless steel
Jaroff Design is honored to have been chosen as the architectural metal and glass fabricator for the new September 11th Memorial for the City of Hoboken. Located in Pier A Park, the memorial is aligned with the World Trade Center across the Hudson River and runs parallel to the Living Memorial of Ginko Trees that were planted in 2002.
This memorial consists of 56 monolithic glass plaques etched with the names and birth dates of the Hoboken residents who gave their lives in 2001, and two end caps that display the consecration written by the City of Hoboken. Paying homage to Ground Zero, the base of the memorial is made of stainless steel IBeams and houses separate lightboxes to illuminate each plaque.
Jaroff Design also created stainless steel plaques that are embedded in the ground and part of the park landscape. Each is engraved with a memory or statement of an onlooker who watched the attacks from Pier A Park on that fateful day in 2001.
For the past thirty-eight plus years, Jaroff Design, under the management of founder Joseph Jaroff, has led the design, fabrication, installation and coordination of custom architectural glass and metal for the construction, architecture, interior design and art communities.
Joe received a BFA in Metalwork and Sculpture from RIT’s prestigious School for American Craft and studied Art History at Harvard University. During the time he was a student, Joe received several grants for public art projects including those from the National Endowment for the Arts and New York State Council for the Arts.
After graduating, Joe moved to New York City to pursue an art career, supplementing his income with architectural metal and glass design and fabrication work for contractors and commissioned projects. This early work led Joe to the realization that he could fill an unrecognized need within the building and arts community through blending his skill sets of designer, fabricator, coordinator and project orchestrator.
Jaroff Design has developed and realized design solutions for projects by architects such as Tony Chi, Herzog & De Meuron, Richard Gluckmann, Peter Marino, Toshiko Mori, Polshek Partnership Architects, Ennead Architects, S.O.M., Phillipe Stark, Adam Tihany, Annabelle Selldorf, Andrew Berman and The Rockwell Group among many others.
Fashion Clients include showrooms and flagship locations for Armani, Issey Miyake, Alexander McQueen, Ralph Lauren, Donna Karan, Stella McCartney, Barneys, Louis Vuitton, Van Cleef & Arpels, YSL and Chanel.
Fine dining clientele have seen JD work at Asiate, Le Cirque, The Sea Grill, 11 Madison Avenue, Bruno’s Wine Club and the Hudson Hotel Bar. Cultural clients include Jazz at Lincoln Center, MOMA PS1 and New York City Center.
To see the video of the consecration, click here.