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

And then, build a bustling wonderful city of the 21st century, with a restoration of a spectacular skyline, which Manhattan, of course, needs. So, that is really the design as a whole.

There are more people living in Lower Manhattan now than before the terrorist attacks. That’s faith for you. There’s such a strong spirit here.

I believe that the idea of the totality, the finality of the master-plan, is misguided. One should advocate a gradual transformation of public space, a metamorphic process, without relying on a hypothetical time in the...

And you have to remember that I came to America as an immigrant. You know, on a ship, through the Statue of Liberty. And I saw that skyline, not just as a representation of steel...

That tower’s an extremely important building, … It’s not just a high-rise in any town done by any architect, but it’s a very specific tower … which mirrors the aspirations of the sky of New...

And, yes, I love the process of building.

I think it’s the greatest form of art, to create a residential building, … We often judge cities by great public buildings. But we admire great cities because people live there in a beautiful way....

But the US is a democracy, and when a government is voted out, these humanist notions of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness continue.

Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.

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

I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings,

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...

buffer between commercial, memorial and retail space.

Larry wanted us to reposition the tower. We wouldn’t, and won’t. He’s been holding back our fees. We want to get paid. And that’s it. It’ll get solved and we’ll carry on with planning Ground...

I like Larry but, look, it’s an evolution. We have to all work together; we have to all find a consensus,

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.

In the aftermath of these tragedies, there is optimism,

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

I think that there is room obviously for many architects to work on this site. It’s not going to be done just by one architect,

The foreign press seems obsessed with the Freedom Tower, as if it was the only thing going on here. In fact, we’re trying to keep a huge juggling act in balance, with the tower as...

And of course I like Berlin a lot. It’s such an interesting city.