To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history, but to articulate it.

There are more people living in Lower Manhattan now than before the terrorist attacks. That's faith for you. There's such a strong spirit here.

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

Well, I think one doesn't really have to invent this memorial space, because it is already there. And it is speaking with a voice and, you know, 4 million of us came to see the site.

Call Berlin. Drop everything we're doing. I have a complete vision of what should be.

And it is very moving because one has to see the site not as just another site of development but it is a very special site. It is a site that souls and hearts of all Americans.

Buffer between commercial, memorial and retail space.