Robert Yaro

Robert Yaro
both challenge city everyday function memorial needs sacred site solemn
The challenge from Day 1 has always been: how do you accommodate both the sacred and the everyday on this site. The memorial needs to function as a solemn and sacred kind of place, while the whole site needs to become part of the city again.
city died memorial people site tension
The tension here has always been between this site as a memorial to the people who died there on the one hand, and as a living, functioning part of the city on the other,
building certainly city fits
I'd like to tell you we're building a city on a hill, and we may get there, but it's certainly in fits and starts,
building charged project
It's the most emotionally charged building project in the world.
clearly hard
This clearly has to do both, and it's really hard to do both.