Plans call for a Tower of Voices, with 40 windchimes representing the 40 passengers and crew members who died.

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Their Windchimes creation is more of a weather station than a phone booth.

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With Windchimes, we imagined adapting payphones to create a distributed environmental sensor network in service of New York City residents and visitors.

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"We are a group of students and recent grads from Parsons, NYU-ITP and Cooper Union studying art, engineering, environmental science, and design, " said the Windchimes team.

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