In January 2003 the Bannermans were among 10 shortlisted British Garden designers to submit designs for a garden to commemorate the British victims of the 9/11 tragedy on Manhattan. To their eternal surprise they won and the production is still not complete despite the tireless work of the mastermind and dynamo behind the project Camilla Hellman. The winning design responded completely to the complex conditions offered by the site which was not only a curious shape but also very shady, windy and in almost constant public use. It was stipulated that 210 running feet of seating be provided, among multitudinous other rubrics, and this became the foundation of the whole design, a fugue and variation in British stones, stone paving, stone inscriptions, stone seating and eventually stone sculpture by Anish Kapoor, all except the last sinuous and bending. These forms are emphasised and reiterated by the planting of evergreen yew and box to form eventually three dimensional amorphous voluptuous forms. The whole is intended to be redolent of classic English gardens and spaces such as churchyards but entirely of the 21st century and, of course, workable in a practical sense within the constraints of Lower Manhattan.