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Daniel Libeskind

"To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it."

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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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"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."

Development

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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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"It's a project that touched me as an immigrant and as a New Yorker."

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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"I'm not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves mountains."

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