In 2003, an agency created to rebuild the site chose a master plan by architect Daniel Libeskind.

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Tortured by demands from developers, police departments, governments and survivors, the building scarcely resembles the original design by Daniel Libeskind.

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This is something Daniel Libeskind knows all about, after 10 years on the job in Berlin guiding his competition-winning Jewish Museum to completion.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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