- Nov 07, 2020
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- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can just never desist. You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in the Army, the unit I served in, you could never stop. It was a volunteer unit, and there was a fairly high rate of attrition. The people who stayed through are the people who were either great at it or the people who just didn't know how to stop. And I fell into that second category.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
New York was a place I wanted to live and work all along. If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It sounds really over the top to say you're responsible for the city of New York, but I do feel responsibility to the city of New York, to this country, to people everywhere. So many people were affected by the events of September 11, and I feel this is one of the ways that that event will be understood and defined.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
I pushed the process forward by saying, 'We should do this, this, and this right now. Please find the budget for me to find a structural engineer, a mechanical engineer, a civil engineer, so we can do the preliminary work.'
- Apprehensive
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started this project, I was a young architect. I was very apprehensive about any changes to the design. Whether I wanted to or not, I learned that you can accept some changes to its form without compromising its intent. But it's a leap of faith that I didn't want to make initially - to put it mildly.
- Designer
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a dual role: designer and advocate.
- Emotions
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think my desire to imagine a future for this site came out of trying to come to terms with the emotions that day aroused.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a little more measured. That sense of urgency I thought accompanied things - it can take a little longer. You have to take the long view.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
For two years nobody talked about anything other than the name arrangement. There was no fund-raising and no progress being made on construction and design.
- Mirror
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- Nov 07, 2020
No rendering can really simulate the way the light bounces off the bronze panel. From some angles, it's almost a mirror, and from others it's a matte surface.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative?
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope for the experience of people standing together, turning their backs to the city and facing this, and hearing the leaves rustle. Well, maybe it won't be as bucolic as at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, but I know you will feel removed from the city.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love New York, but I'd felt like an outsider here.
- Differences
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are bound to be differences in any artistic collaboration with landscape elements, or theater, of lighting elements.
- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really appreciate artists of the 20th century, and I can see a lot of their influence on my work, but to suggest that my design only fits within an 'ism' kind of bothers me.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that people are fundamentally are decent. And, yes, you will have people that sometimes will misbehave.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020