Daniel Libeskind
Daniel Libeskind
Daniel Libeskindis a Polish-American architect, artist, professor and set designer of Polish Jewish descent. Libeskind founded Studio Daniel Libeskind in 1989 with his wife, Nina, and is its principal design architect. His buildings include the Jewish Museum in Berlin, Germany, the extension to the Denver Art Museum in the United States, the Grand Canal Theatre in Dublin, the Imperial War Museum North in Greater Manchester, England, the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada, the Felix...
NationalityPolish
ProfessionArchitect
Date of Birth12 May 1946
CountryPoland
It's about how to bring together the seemingly contradictory aspects of the memorial, which is about a tragedy and how it changed the world, but also about creating a vital and beautiful city of the 21st century.
And of course I like Berlin a lot. It's such an interesting city
And then, build a bustling wonderful city of the 21st century, with a restoration of a spectacular skyline, which Manhattan, of course, needs. So, that is really the design as a whole
We live in a time of renaissance ... cities are coming back to life, after a long neglect.
Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.
We often judge cities by great public buildings. But we admire great cities because people live there in a beautiful way. You have to think about how each person will live there; you can't just think about abstract ideas.
I never forgot that skyline and what it means to an immigrant, an American. It's not just a symbol. It's not just something up in the air. It's about the values that we all share,
It's been hard to hand over the working design of Freedom Tower to another architect - although we're still a part of the team, and so is Larry.
The public has to understand, it's not just build some buildings. I don't think there has ever been such a project with such urgency and such speed, given the complexity.
The public has to understand, it's not just build some buildings,
each year on September 11 between the hours of 8:46 a.m., when the first airplane hit, and 10:28 a.m., when the second tower collapsed, the sun will shine without shadow.
Absolutely, that's my commitment, and that's the commitment of New York,
It's about freedom, it's about America, and it's about New York, and how does the city move forward in the face of these tragic events,
We all came to see that site. We all walked around it. It is already sacred.