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And, yes, I love the process of building.
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Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.
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What is a habit? It’s just a shackle for ourselves.
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Buffer between commercial, memorial and retail space.
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It's a fantastic responsibility and a wonderful moment.
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I think to be creative you have to resist taking the easy path.
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And of course I like Berlin a lot. It's such an interesting city
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And of course I like Berlin a lot. It's such an interesting city.
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It's a project that touched me as an immigrant and as a New Yorker.
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Be innovative. Don't listen to the tried and tested wisdom. Take a risk!
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I'm not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves mountains.
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We all came to see that site. We all walked around it. It is already sacred.
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I don't get to sleep when I'm in New York. Really. I'm living on adrenaline.
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The Spiral Gallery may happen, too. It is not dependent on government funding.
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To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.
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To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history, but to articulate it.
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Call Berlin. Drop everything we're doing. I have a complete vision of what should be.
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Architecture is not just for the moment, it is not just for the next fashion magazine.
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We live in a time of renaissance ... cities are coming back to life, after a long neglect.
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Cities
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Young people have the advantage because they have their whole lives open to be astonished.
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When you're a kid with artistic yearnings brought up in the Bronx, you don't get fed up too easily.
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Bronx
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Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.
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Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.
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Built
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Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future.
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Berlin
Europe
Jewish Life
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Jewish
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There are more people living in Lower Manhattan now than before the terrorist attacks. That's faith for you. There's such a strong spirit here.
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Manhattan
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I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings.
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And it is very moving because one has to see the site not as just another site of development but it is a very special site. It is a site that souls and hearts of all Americans.
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Soul
All Americans
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I studied architecture in New York. So, really I was very moved, like everyone else, to try to contribute something that has that resonance and profundity of it means to all of us.
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New York
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Moved
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Resonance
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Well, I think one doesn't really have to invent this memorial space, because it is already there. And it is speaking with a voice and, you know, 4 million of us came to see the site.
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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.
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Cities
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Don't look at the superficial success, at the short-term success. Look at the deep spiritual questions that architecture has to answer. Who do you build for? Where? What should you build?
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Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious
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Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious.
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Calculations
Interesting
Obvious
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Series
Statistics
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Larry wanted us to reposition the tower. We wouldn't, and won't. He's been holding back our fees. We want to get paid. And that's it. It'll get solved and we'll carry on with planning Ground Zero.
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Zero
Fees
Ground Zero
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Paid
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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.
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Beautiful
Beautiful City
Cities
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Creating
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Tragedy
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The foreign press seems obsessed with the Freedom Tower, as if it was the only thing going on here. In fact, we're trying to keep a huge juggling act in balance, with the tower as just one of the many balls in play.
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Balance
Juggling
Just One
The Only Thing
Tower
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In a strange way, architecture is really an unfinished thing, because even though the building is finished, it takes on a new life. It becomes part of a new dynamic: how people will occupy it, use it, think about it.
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Our lives are complex; our emotions are complex; our intellectual desires are complex. I believe that architecture … needs to mirror that complexity in every single space that we have, in every intimacy that we possess.
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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.
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There will be a competition for the memorial. And then it can be developed with trees, with planting. It can become a very beautiful place protected from the streets, because it is below. And it can be something very moving and very private.
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Well, I didn't want to have the reminder sort of in the sky, so that people would forever look at it. I wanted to have - really to create a city from the bottom up. From that foundation, which held, from the democratic power of what the site really is.
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And you have to remember that I came to America as an immigrant. You know, on a ship, through the Statue of Liberty. And I saw that skyline, not just as a representation of steel and concrete and glass, but as really the substance of the American Dream.
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America
American Dream
Concrete
Glasses
Liberty
Remember
Representation
Statue Of Liberty
Substance
Came
Through
Glass
Saw
Immigrant
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The official name of the project is 'Jewish Museum' but I have named it 'Between the Lines' because for me it is about two lines of thinking, organization and relationship. One is a straight line, but broken into many fragments, the other is a tortuous line, but continuing indefinitely.
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You cannot suddenly make Lower Manhattan into a sad place because we saw such a dramatic loss of life. You have to balance the memory, which is so important, and use it as a kind of Archimedean Point to create a lively, incredibly interesting, and culturally significant piece of a city and neighborhood.
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The truth is, the way you write music, it's a code. It has to be very precise. It's scientific, but ultimately it also depends on interpretation. It's very similar to how you grow a master plan: it's an objective document, but at the same time it is a lyrical document which allows through interpretation to become a harmonious work of art.
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I believe that the idea of the totality, the finality of the master-plan, is misguided. One should advocate a gradual transformation of public space, a metamorphic process, without relying on a hypothetical time in the future when everything will be perfect. The mistake of planners and architects is to believe that fifty years from now Alexanderplatz will be perfected. -p.197
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