I--HAVE to say that I love flying. There's something very intimate about being on a plane. You never know who you'll be seated next to and what their stories may be. But I can be a somewhat timid flier. I remember being on a very turbulent flight years ago. I was scared out of my mind. The oxygen masks dropped down and I was pretty sure we were all...
Daniel Libeskind might be known to most New Yorkers as the architect who won the World Trade Center design competition. But to design aficionados, Mr. Libeskind, a Warsaw-born son of Holocaust survivors, is a veritable rock star, responsible for a variety of high-profile projects, from the Jewish Museum in Berlin to the extension of the Denver Art...
The planned skyscraper once known as the Freedom Tower was scorned for years by urban planners, downtown residents and real estate executives who regarded it as an oversize and unnecessary exercise in waste and hubris. But the acrimonious debates, cost overruns and lengthy delays in building the tower appear to be over. More than 1,400 workers are...
Daniel Libeskind (født 12. maj 1946 i Łódź) er en polsk født arkitekt, som blev amerikansk statsborger i 1965. Han er uddannet på Bronx High School of Science.
Hans seneste projekter er blandt andre:
Senest har han vundet arkitektkonkurrencen om den nye bebyggelse på Ground Zero i New York City, USA.