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I had a dual role: designer and advocate. ↗

— Michael Arad

#designer #dual #had #i #role

I have no choice but to fight them every step of the way. I can't tell you how many other stupid ideas have been proposed over the last two years. ↗

— Michael Arad

#choice #every #every step #fight #how

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. ↗

— Michael Arad

#brooklyn #city #experience #facing #feel

Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain. ↗

— Diane Arbus

#apt #change #children #craving #full

I pushed the process forward by saying, 'We should do this, this, and this right now. Please find the budget for me to find a structural engineer, a mechanical engineer, a civil engineer, so we can do the preliminary work.' ↗

— Michael Arad

#civil #engineer #find #forward #i

It sounds really over the top to say you're responsible for the city of New York, but I do feel responsibility to the city of New York, to this country, to people everywhere. So many people were affected by the events of September 11, and I feel this is one of the ways that that event will be understood and defined. ↗

— Michael Arad

#city #country #defined #event #events

It was really a magical moment, to see this idea that's in your head. ↗

— Michael Arad

#idea #magical #moment #really #see

New York was a place I wanted to live and work all along. If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York. ↗

— Michael Arad

#going #had #i #israel #live

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. ↗

— Michael Arad

#angles #bronze #light #mirror #off

When I started this project, I was a young architect. I was very apprehensive about any changes to the design. Whether I wanted to or not, I learned that you can accept some changes to its form without compromising its intent. But it's a leap of faith that I didn't want to make initially - to put it mildly. ↗

— Michael Arad

#accept #any #apprehensive #architect #changes