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...those who’ve seen pictures of Berlin’s Jewish Museum, actually arriving there can be a confusing experience. I had expected the surroundings to match Daniel Libeskind??€™s jagged zinc zig-zag of a building. As unlikely as such a construction might be in other cities, Berlin loves its cutting-edge architecture. And the museum fell along the border between the eastern and western parts of the city, suggesting that it might be part of one of the many deconstructionist paradises that sprang up on land formerly occupied by the Berlin Wall. Instead...
Again, it is not that Libeskind??€™s design is not masterful. He has fulfilled his commitment to optimism. The hope with which his design reaches upwards, sitting like the curled hand of God around the footprint of the two towers, its index finger stretching towards the sky—taller, indeed, than any building in the world, save a few telecommunication towers—is important, even necessary in what is to be our revisioning of Manhattan. It is as much an immigrant’s vision of the endless possibility that marks our most American of American...
...Libeskind??€™s Jewish Museum in Berlin, too, is tied to the stilled remnants of the German Jewish community. He did not hazard the baseness of memorializing the dead at the place of their annihilation. What could a memorial at Auschwitz do but divert us from Auschwitz? There are reasons we do not place gravestones in the charnel pits...
...this way, the ground at the feet of the World Trade Center deserves so much less than Libeskind??€™s fiercely beautiful vision, his floating 1776-foot spire, his hanging gardens. Less ornament, less grace, less art. For people were not buried there, they were slaughtered. At the location of such a tragedy, no memorial for the victims can speak beyond the site’s capacity for speech, no monument to the heroes can be more than distraction...
...must recognize both. In restoring the World Trade Center site to a functional commercial space, the LMDC has guaranteed that New York will rise prominently from its ashes. In the execution of Libeskind??€™s design in its present location, we will be reminded of our strength, but not our loss. It will have artificially filled over the empty space that now haunts us. The hollow pit that speaks for those who were slain, that strikes us silent and huddling before the enormity of what we cannot know and cannot say, will disappear...