I think my desire to imagine a future for this site came out of trying to come to terms with the emotions that day aroused.

As architects we are often involved in the concrete-steel-and-glass aspect of it, but cities are social structures, and to be involved in imagining the future of cities and the type of relationships and the types of places that we're making is something that intrigues me very much.

I believe that people are fundamentally are decent. And, yes, you will have people that sometimes will misbehave.

You can just never desist. You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you.

PERFORMING TRIBUTE 9/11 shows the heroism of people who have chosen to respond to devastation and hatred with quiet determination and a belief that they can and will make the world a better place.

I'm a little more measured. That sense of urgency I thought accompanied things - it can take a little longer. You have to take the long view.

New York was a place I wanted to live and work all along. If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York.