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When Daniel Libeskind was invited last summer to submit ideas for rebuilding the area around the World Trade Center, he flew from his home in Berlin to visit the site. He descended into "the bathtub," the vast concrete basin in which the foundations of both towers once rested. As the street-level sounds of the city fell away, the primeval depths of Manhattan filled his view. "At that bedrock level you can see the indelible traces of the towers," says Libeskind. "These were walls that had withstood the trauma of the attack. I thought to myself, There is something very...
What did it say? Something about how to reconcile life and death. Libeskind's design for the site, unveiled along with eight other proposals at a press conference in New York City in December, preserves the entire 70-ft.-deep basin as a kind of primordial imprint of the towers. Part burnt offering, part wailing wall, the basin testifies to calamity, but it stands--muscular proof that New York lives and life prevails. Libeskind's plan would surround that pit with a force field of angular towers at street level. The workaday world could carry on its business without trampling...
...towers would be a spire that climbs 1,776 ft. (The Fourth of July altitude is no accident; and, yes, the building would be the world's tallest.) As it rises, it would echo the lines of the Statue of Liberty just across the water, a sight that Libeskind, the Polish-born son of Holocaust survivors, first glimpsed as a teenager when he arrived in the U.S. by boat with his parents. In the scheme's subtlest gesture, that tower's upper elevation is given over not to offices but to "sky gardens," whole floors of plant life high above...
...long ago stopped beating. Later this month the Commonwealth Games will begin with an opening ceremony in the $157 million City of Manchester Stadium, with its sweeping curved roof held up by a ring of masts, designed by Arup Associates. All this activity culminates in neighboring Trafford, with Daniel Libeskind's new Imperial War Museum North. This bold structure, which looks like three pieces of a shattered globe, is the first completed building in Britain designed by Libeskind, whose recent works include Berlin's widely acclaimed Jewish Museum. Says Leese, a local politician who became leader of the council only...
...that end, visitors arrive through the old building and then enter Libeskind's extension via a tunnel. This leads to the exhibit, entitled "2,000 Years of German-Jewish History," which includes thousands of objects depicting Jewish family and cultural life through the ages in Berlin. One area of the museum, however, remains completely empty to symbolize all that has been lost and destroyed: the Void, a concrete corridor that runs through the entire structure. "It is meant to show that even at the height of culture in Berlin, Jews and others were not accepted as full citizens," Libeskind explains...