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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• Daniel Libeskind:

  When you're a kid with artistic yearnings brought up in the Bronx, you don't get fed up too easily.

• Daniel Libeskind:

  Well, I think one doesn't really have to invent this memorial space, because it is already there. A

• Daniel Libeskind:

  Well, I didn't want to have the reminder sort of in the sky, so that people would forever look at i

• Daniel Libeskind:

  We will work with everybody for the good of New York.

• Daniel Libeskind:

  We all came to see that site. We all walked around it. It is already sacred.

• Daniel Libeskind:

  There will be a competition for the memorial. And then it can be developed with trees, with plantin

• Daniel Libeskind:

  There are more people living in Lower Manhattan now than before the terrorist attacks. That's faith

• Daniel Libeskind:

  The Spiral Gallery may happen, too. It is not dependent on government funding.

• Daniel Libeskind:

  The foreign press seems obsessed with the Freedom Tower, as if it was the only thing going on here.

• Daniel Libeskind:

  Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Eu