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Danny Libeskind: Still in Control at Ground Zero 
Thursday, February 16, 2006

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Today, in a typically error-prone dispatch from Architectural Record (kids, it's Yama Karim, not "Yani"), we learn that hope springs eternal chez Libeskind. Also that pathological optimism is good for business:

In addition to [a slew of grievous] skyscrapers [going up all over the fucking place], Libeskind will have several handfuls of projects completed by 2008, including a German military museum in Dresden....Other works include The New Center for Arts and Culture in Boston, and The Denver Art Museum and accompanying condominium development in Denver, a retail complex and hotel in Las Vegas. And how does he feel about the situation at Ground Zero, the project that helped make him, but also came close to breaking him? “I’m the only one who’s not disillusioned,” he says. The process is inherently difficult, and I knew that. But the core of the project is still there."

Someone needs to war-profiteer less and read more.

· Despite Freedom Tower Setback, Libeskind Building Skyscrapers [Arch. Record]


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Reader Comments (22 extant)

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It's only a flesh wound.

By Adam Sobolak at February 16, 2006 7:01 PM

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Hmmm ... yeah. With regard to the new Kennedy greenway where the The New Center for Arts and Culture will be, I'll believe it when I see it. They are already running into problems with this project in the form of shallow dirt. Yes, they cannot plant trees in some parts because they didn't make the dirt on top of the central artery deep enough to sustain tree roots. I hope they can figure out how to build buildings on top of it. The Big Boondoggle - thanks a lot Tip O'Neill. You really brought home the bacon - greasy, fatty, treasury-draining bacon.

By cmiller at February 17, 2006 10:52 AM

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until now, I didn't think it could be worse, but then I imagined what it must be like to be the hapless foamcore monkey who had to make 911 permutations of the Freedom Tower.

By greg.org at February 18, 2006 2:24 PM

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What horrible looking crap. Trump was right. I hope they don't build anything like that here. Has Pataki lost his mind to pick this guy?

By a New Yorker at February 18, 2006 5:29 PM

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Trump wouldn't good architecture if it crawled up his leg and bit him on the ass.

By cmiller at February 19, 2006 11:58 AM

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Response to #4:
When the entire WTC is done, the only things left of Libeskind will be his 1,776 foot mark. The site plan is ultimately a near replica of the BBB's Memorial Plaza plan, except with pointy buildings as placeholders.

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