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Buffer between commercial, memorial and retail space.
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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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To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.
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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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And of course I like Berlin a lot. It's such an interesting city.
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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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Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.
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I'm not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves mountains.
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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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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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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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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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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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We will work with everybody for the good of New York.
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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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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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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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It's a fantastic responsibility and a wonderful moment.
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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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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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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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I don't get to sleep when I'm in New York. Really. I'm living on adrenaline.
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Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.
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Young people have the advantage because they have their whole lives open to be astonished.