The Spiral Gallery may happen, too. It is not dependent on government funding.

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

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

Buffer between commercial, memorial and retail space.

It's about how to bring together the seemingly contradictory aspects of the memorial, which is about a tragedy and how it changed the world, but also about creating a vital and beautiful city of the 21st century.

Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious

We often judge cities by great public buildings. But we admire great cities because people live there in a beautiful way. You have to think about how each person will live there; you can't just think about abstract ideas.