Daniel Libeskind. (Arman Dzidzovic)

World Trade Center master planner Daniel Libeskind’s office library contains nearly a dozen bookcases filled with books about philosophy, religious studies, history, travel, literature, art, architecture, design and other fields and genres. And when Commercial Observer visited Studio Daniel Libeskind three blocks south of the trade center site, he described the necessity in his work of the same four components Herman Melville wishes for in Moby Dick: time, strength, cash and patience.

He had invoked the same line a few days days earlier during a trade center construction update event at 4 World Trade Center timed for the week of the 13th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. The four necessities have helped rebuild the site where 2,753 New Yorkers lost their lives and fulfill the vision that guided the nation-sized group of stakeholders to the site’s current status, he told a room full of local and international media outlets and several of the interested parties themselves.

With construction proceeding at the site as 1 World Trade Center opens, 3 World Trade Center rises upward and the transportation hub lurches toward completion, the architect, planner and designer that the lower Manhattan Development Corporation selected as the master planner for the site in February 2003 expressed respect and gratitude to the many other actors who had shaped the 16-acre site. The Polish-American immigrant who arrived to New York City in a boat is also building all over the world as he relishes what would seem to be the most difficult aspect of his work.....Continue Reading

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