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.

And then, build a bustling wonderful city of the 21st century, with a restoration of a spectacular skyline, which Manhattan, of course, needs. So, that is really the design as a whole.

Be innovative. Don't listen to the tried and tested wisdom. Take a risk!

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

And, yes, I love the process of building.

I believe that the idea of the totality, the finality of the master-plan, is misguided. One should advocate a gradual transformation of public space, a metamorphic process, without relying on a hypothetical time in the future when everything will be perfect. The mistake of planners and architects is to believe that fifty years from now Alexanderplatz will be perfected. -p.197

Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.