The political, legal, and financial challenges faced by architect Daniel Libeskind are immense.
"How will the architect Daniel Libeskind's vision for a memorial park 30 feet below street level and a soaring 1,776-foot tower ever be built, with nearly everything from the financing to basic engineering decisions either in dispute or at least in limbo?...The more skeptical theorize that New York's political powers, led by Gov. George E. Pataki, selected the Libeskind plan not only for aesthetic or emotional reasons, but also because it obliges government to spend and do very little. The runner-up plan required constructing two costly latticework towers, but the less expensive winning design seems to commit government only to prepare the memorial park for the memorial itself. The rest will be fundamentally up to the private sector and the market."
Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan
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