I had a dual role: designer and advocate.
From Michael Arad
I think my desire to imagine a future for this site came out of trying to come to terms with the emotions that day aroused.
I'm a little more measured. That sense of urgency I thought accompanied things - it can take a little longer. You have to take the long view.
For two years nobody talked about anything other than the name arrangement. There was no fund-raising and no progress being made on construction and design.
No rendering can really simulate the way the light bounces off the bronze panel. From some angles, it's almost a mirror, and from others it's a matte surface.
How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative?
I hope for the experience of people standing together, turning their backs to the city and facing this, and hearing the leaves rustle. Well, maybe it won't be as bucolic as at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, but I know you will feel removed from the city.
I love New York, but I'd felt like an outsider here.
You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you.
If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York.
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