In 2003, an agency created to rebuild the site chose a master plan by architect Daniel Libeskind.
Tortured by demands from developers, police departments, governments and survivors, the building scarcely resembles the original design by Daniel Libeskind.
This is something Daniel Libeskind knows all about, after 10 years on the job in Berlin guiding his competition-winning Jewish Museum to completion.
That is certainly the case in the design of the centre created by Daniel Libeskind, a world leader in architecture and a friend of Northern Ireland.
It is turning out to be one part Daniel Libeskind to several parts Larry Silverstein, the real-estate developer who held the lease on the World Trade Center.
Whenever anything radically new is proposed, such as Daniel Libeskind's cubist spiral extension to the Victoria and Albert Museum, there are howls of protest that it does not fit in.
The master plan that was eventually selected, by Daniel Libeskind, split the difference, arranging a number of office towers around a memorial space occupying the footprint of the Twin Towers.
There will be an international school (already half-built), a hospital, museums, a convention center, a golf course overseen by Jack Nicklaus, a giant mall designed by Daniel Libeskind and a 65-story office tower.
The skyscraper previously named the Freedom Tower was first conceived in 2002 as a central element of architect Daniel Libeskind's master plan for rebuilding Ground Zero in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Cooper counts famous artists and architects including Daniel Libeskind, designer of the Ground Zero reconstruction master plan among its graduates but hasn't mounted the kind of aggressive alumni fundraising campaigns other institutions have used to make ends meet.
Prince Albert II, the reigning monarch, has flirted with the idea of another land-reclamation project, inviting bids and briefly giving his support in 2010 to a design by Daniel Libeskind, the architect who drew up the master plan for the reconstruction of New York's World Trade Center.
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