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46 CENTER ARCHITECT THE AIA MAGAZINE JULY <strong>2014</strong> WWW.ARCHITECTMAGAZINE.COM LETTER FROM GROUND ZERO DELIRIOUS WORLD TRADE DESPITE THE OPENING OF THE SEPT. 11 MUSEUM, GROUND ZERO REMAINS A SITE CONFLICTED IN ITS AMBITIONS AND EXECUTION. Text by Karrie Jacobs Photo by Fran Parente A DECADE AGO, about a year after Daniel Libeskind, AIA, was appointed master planner of the World Trade Center site, I asked him a question: “In 10 years’ time, will this place look like New York City?” His charming and evasive reply: “When the famous portrait of Gertrude Stein was painted by Picasso, she said to him, ‘It’s a beautiful portrait, but it doesn’t look like me.’ And he said, ‘But it will.’ ” Picasso’s iconic portrait, of course, cast Stein as a cubist Mona Lisa. And Libeskind, something of a cubist himself, seemed to have the idea that he was remaking not just the 16 acres nominally under his command, but New York City itself, dragging the wounded, architecturally recalcitrant metropolis into the 21st century. Today, I’m still trying to answer the same question. Every time I’ve visited the National September 11 Memorial, since it opened in 2011, I ask myself: What is this place and who is it for? The site continues to grow and change as many of the components lurch toward completion, but what I find here isn’t exactly New York. It lacks the energy typical of the city’s best public places. That’s to be expected in a site dominated by a memorial, but it isn’t well suited to contemplation either. There are too many visitors, tourists mostly. There are endless rules: no demonstrations, no rallies, no third-party vending. No sports. No loitering, littering, or smoking. No throwing anything into the pools. No animals. But all those injunctions don’t add up to tranquility. If there is peace to be had on this memorial plaza, I have yet to experience it. Nor is the site exactly Libeskind’s. His influence quickly waned as his grandest symbolic gestures encountered the turbulence with which New York City customarily confronts newcomers. His Wedge of Light, for instance, a plaza that Libeskind claimed would be bathed in sunlight during the morning hours each Sept. 11, was revealed as a fiction by Eli Attia, the architect of the neighboring Millenium Hilton. This shouldn’t have been a View of 1 World Trade Center from the 57th-floor terrace of Fumihiko Maki’s 4 World Trade Center
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