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Then there's the money question. While the museum and other cultural facilities in Libeskind's design are likely to be built with some combination of public and private funds, no one knows where those will come from. As for the office towers, are there many private developers ready to build them in lower Manhattan, where 14 million sq. ft. of office space sit empty? And as of now, no law requires any private developer to accept Libeskind's designs, though arm twisting and pleasanter incentives from the state and city can be expected...
...befits a knot this tangled, the crucial figures in awarding the Trade Center job to Libeskind were not the official decision makers of the LMDC. In August the LMDC had set in motion a worldwide competition for the site. Early last month six semifinalists were winnowed down, Survivor-style, to two: Libeskind and Rafael Vinoly, a global design star of the same magnitude as Libeskind who worked as part of a project team called THINK. Its design featured immense twin towers of steel latticework. High-rise delicacies, they looked like ghostly evocations of the annihilated Trade Center--too much...
...weeks it appeared that Libeskind had the upper hand, until a last-minute push for Vinoly/THINK by LMDC heavyweight Roland Betts, a New York City developer and former Yale roommate of George W. Bush's. After a four-hour meeting last Tuesday in which both proposals were examined over sandwiches, the LMDC's site committee, which Betts heads, voted 43, with one abstention, in favor of Vinoly. But the next day their recommendation was overruled by Pataki and Bloomberg, who had long favored Libeskind's plan. Betts says that's fine. "Nobody was Vinoly or bust," he insists...
...Libeskind or bust. Though born in Poland, he's a U.S. citizen. He likes to remind people that at 13 he came to the U.S. with his parents, Holocaust survivors, arriving on a ship that glided past the Statue of Liberty. For much of his architectural career, he was a teacher and theorist, not a builder. Then in the late 1980s, while living in Europe, he won a competition to design the Jewish Museum of Berlin. His complex building, a zinc-clad thunderbolt, operates in a way similar to that of Trade Center design. Its very lines acknowledge a calamity...
Berlin also gave Libeskind combat experience in guiding a controversial design to completion. Now he and his wife Nina are moving back to New York City, looking for a new home "right next to the site." Architects like to keep a close eye on things. By the time of his death in 1926, Antonio Gaudi was living full time on the construction site of his masterpiece, the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. For the record, it's still unfinished. --Reported by Simon Crittle/New York