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To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.
Daniel Libeskind
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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.
Daniel Libeskind
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The Spiral Gallery may happen, too. It is not dependent on government funding.
Daniel Libeskind
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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.
Daniel Libeskind
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I'm not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves mountains.
Daniel Libeskind
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It's a fantastic responsibility and a wonderful moment.
Daniel Libeskind
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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.
Daniel Libeskind
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We will work with everybody for the good of New York.
Daniel Libeskind
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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.
Daniel Libeskind
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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.
Daniel Libeskind
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It's a project that touched me as an immigrant and as a New Yorker.
Daniel Libeskind
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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.
Daniel Libeskind
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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.
Daniel Libeskind
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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.
Daniel Libeskind
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We all came to see that site. We all walked around it. It is already sacred.
Daniel Libeskind
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