The challenge from Day 1 has always been: how do you accommodate both the sacred and the everyday on this site. The memorial needs to function as a solemn and sacred kind of place, while...

I’d like to tell you we’re building a city on a hill, and we may get there, but it’s certainly in fits and starts,

It’s the most emotionally charged building project in the world.

This clearly has to do both, and it’s really hard to do both.

The tension here has always been between this site as a memorial to the people who died there on the one hand, and as a living, functioning part of the city on the other,