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When it was announced that David Childs would be designing the Freedom Tower part of the WTC, with Daniel Libeskind remaining as visionary for the project as a whole, many wondered if this interesting but magnet for ego-colliding collaboration would work. Three months later, some tensions over the design have emerged. As Childs' and Liebeskind's visions differ, Times reporter David Dunlap writes, "Without an agreed-upon aesthetic approach, there can be no detailed drawings. Without drawings, there can be no construction."
All parties (including the Lower Manhattan Development Concil) involved are to trying to be optimistic, for the sake of their reputations as well as for the public. Libeskind says, "Look, I come from a Hasidic background. I know forced marriages and they always worked for a long time." Somewhere, Rafael Vinoly is having a good chuckle about this.
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This is exactly what is wrong with architecture right now. It's such a shame that there is a conflict brewing between these two. Mr. Libeskind is nothing but a one trick proponent of his brand of deconstructivist design. I had some hope that getting a project like this would spark a transformation in his work and a brand new approach. But alas when your vision is only limited to your personal asthetic you can only dig so deep. This project should be stylisticly free of anyone's hand. It should represent an outward view and the the inward pondering of 'starchitects' Libeskind's asthetic is tired and it hasn't evolved it two decades. I'd love to use the excuse to one of my clients that I couldn't start drawings because I couldn't come up with an agreed asthetic, that's what I'm being paid for. Obviously Childs and Libeskind really have a grasp on professionalism.
The link you have to the LMDC is wrong. It should be www.renewnyc.com, not www.lmdc.org.