Absolutely, that's my commitment, and that's the commitment of New York, |
buffer between commercial, memorial and retail space. |
Cities are the greatest creations of humanity. |
each year on September 11 between the hours of 8:46 a.m., when the first airplane hit, and 10:28 a.m., when the second tower collapsed, the sun will shine without shadow. |
I like Larry but, look, it's an evolution. We have to all work together; we have to all find a consensus, |
I never forgot that skyline and what it means to an immigrant, an American. It's not just a symbol. It's not just something up in the air. It's about the values that we all share, |
I think it's the greatest form of art, to create a residential building, ... 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. |
I think that there is room obviously for many architects to work on this site. It's not going to be done just by one architect, |
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, |
In the aftermath of these tragedies, there is optimism, |
It could not have been done without the generosity of our patrons. |
It is a very unusual thing where you have a contemporary campus of buildings, where you have Michael Graves, you have the Ponti building to connect them and create more than just isolated buildings around a public space in ways that frame that every footstep. |
It's a project that touched me as an immigrant and as a New Yorker, |
It's about freedom, it's about America, and it's about New York, and how does the city move forward in the face of these tragic events, |
That tower's an extremely important building, ... It's not just a high-rise in any town done by any architect, but it's a very specific tower ... which mirrors the aspirations of the sky of New York. |