Why is it taking so long for the World Trade Center site to be rebuilt?
The master plan competition was in 2003, so this isn’t very long for such a vast project that’s so highly political and emotional and with so many stakeholders, from the Port Authority to two governors to the mayor to the MTA. I do believe in the process and I believe what people will see emerging is very close to the vision, with the memorial, the slurry wall and the wedge of light. Yet with all the stakeholders, you get all the opinions. Well, since Sept. 11, New Yorkers have focused on their city and become aware of architecture-that they have to take in what they see out their windows and think about sustainability and beauty. All the buildings I have designed—take the Jewish Museum Berlin—have been big and always engaged in a very public process. You have to evolve. Art comes out of a context. Your architecture is very good at making sure people experience something in a space. How do you translate that desire to do that into architectural designs? This is a perceptive question an
