Buffer between commercial, memorial and retail space.

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

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

Our lives are complex; our emotions are complex; our intellectual desires are complex. I believe that architecture … needs to mirror that complexity in every single space that we have, in every intimacy that we possess.

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

There will be a competition for the memorial. And then it can be developed with trees, with planting. It can become a very beautiful place protected from the streets, because it is below. And it can be something very moving and very private.

What is a habit? It’s just a shackle for ourselves.