Mr Libeskind originally intended the garden to go the full 70-feet down to the bedrock.
In 2003, an agency created to rebuild the site chose a master plan by architect Daniel Libeskind.
Libeskind's Dresden museum was also criticized but, he says, he never doubted it.
Governor George Pataki described the Mr Libeskind's plan as a "truly emotional protection of the site of Ground Zero itself".
Tortured by demands from developers, police departments, governments and survivors, the building scarcely resembles the original design by Daniel Libeskind.
The emotional charge it delivers, the overpowering evidence of destruction it represents, the heart of the Libeskind concept, is compromised.
Libeskind is also known for "The Spiral", a controversial design for an extension to the Victoria and Albert museum in London.
Married, with three children, Libeskind lives and works in Berlin and divides his time between designing and lecturing around the world.
"It's a building with no function, that has no program, " Libeskind says.
This is something Daniel Libeskind knows all about, after 10 years on the job in Berlin guiding his competition-winning Jewish Museum to completion.
Mr Silverstein had brought in the second team of architects, having complained there was not enough office space in Mr Libeskind's winning design.
The New York structure is the first tower Mr Libeskind has designed, having until now been most renowned for designing the Jewish Museum in Berlin.
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.
The building Libeskind most wishes he'd designed is one completely at odds with its surrounds -- the Eiffel Tower, which looms over Paris' uniformly mid-rise cityscape.
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.
Mr Libeskind, who designed the Jewish Museum in Berlin has described his collaboration with Childs as a "forced marriage", but it was all smiles at the news conference.
In 1978 Libeskind was appointed lecturer at Cranbrook Academy of Art, and over the next decade progressed to teach at Harvard and UCLA in Los Angeles, lecturing on architectural theory.
There was no such protest about Mr Libeskind's glass-shards war museum in Manchester, because it sits amidst cleared industrial dereliction as, indeed, do all the new buildings on the Tyne.
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.
Mr Libeskind, who designed the Jewish Museum in Berlin, would like to keep much of the gaping hole left at the World Trade Center site for space for an eventual memorial.
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.
That handshake at the announcement ceremony between Mr. Libeskind and Larry Silverstein, the developer who holds the twin tower leases and is being dragged kicking and screaming into enlightenment, was a historic New York first.
The New York City Opera, orphaned by Lincoln Center's unsettled plans, and looking for its own theater, has already begun enthusiastic negotiations for Mr. Libeskind's performing arts building and is contacting him about designing to their specifications.
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.
The plan has been followed, more or less, as construction has stumbled forward over the past decade, but, after winning the competition for the master plan, Libeskind never managed to get a commission to design even a single building himself.
This kind of leadership has been supplanted by an ostensibly democratic process in which popular or political dictates have progressively undermined and degraded the principles and guidelines of the Libeskind plan supposedly guiding the rebuilding with every expedient, compromising, constituency-pleasing and ultimately destructive decision.
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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