I hope for the experience of people standing together, turning their backs to the city and facing this, and hearing the leaves rustle. Well, maybe it won't be as bucolic as at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, but I know you will feel removed from the city.

I really appreciate artists of the 20th century, and I can see a lot of their influence on my work, but to suggest that my design only fits within an 'ism' kind of bothers me.

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.

I love New York, but I'd felt like an outsider here.

I pushed the process forward by saying, 'We should do this, this, and this right now. Please find the budget for me to find a structural engineer, a mechanical engineer, a civil engineer, so we can do the preliminary work.

I had a dual role: designer and advocate.