Buffer between commercial, memorial and retail space.

Don't look at the superficial success, at the short-term success. Look at the deep spiritual questions that architecture has to answer. Who do you build for? Where? What should you build?

I don't get to sleep when I'm in New York. Really. I'm living on adrenaline.

Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.

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.

Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.

Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future.