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

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How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative?

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I have no choice but to fight them every step of the way. I can't tell you how many other stupid ideas have been proposed over the last two years.

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

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When I was in the Army, the unit I served in, you could never stop. It was a volunteer unit, and there was a fairly high rate of attrition. The people who stayed through are the people who were either great at it or the people who just didn't know how to stop. And I fell into that second category.

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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.

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It sounds really over the top to say you're responsible for the city of New York, but I do feel responsibility to the city of New York, to this country, to people everywhere. So many people were affected by the events of September 11, and I feel this is one of the ways that that event will be understood and defined.

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It was really a magical moment, to see this idea that's in your head.

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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.'

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When I started this project, I was a young architect. I was very apprehensive about any changes to the design. Whether I wanted to or not, I learned that you can accept some changes to its form without compromising its intent. But it's a leap of faith that I didn't want to make initially - to put it mildly.

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Biography

Nationality: Israeli

Type: Architect

Born: Unknown

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