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This must be old news to most everyone but me. I even posted about the WTC design being chosen, but I failed to take note of the fact that the architect, Daniel Libeskind, is an Israeli-American. Something poetic in that, I guess. I've gotta start paying attention more. I guess blogging means not being shy about sharing your embarrassment before the world.

Israeli-American architect Daniel Libeskind has been chosen to design the new New York complex which will stand on the site of the World Trade Center.


Following months of debate and an architectural competition, New York officials appointed Libeskind to design the world's tallest building at the WTC site while retaining a memorial to the more than 3,000 victims of September 11, 2001.


While Libeskind holds joint Israeli-U.S. citizenship and currently lives in Berlin, he doesn't discount the chapter of his life spent in Israel nor his Jewish roots. "I am still an Israeli," he told The Jerusalem Post in an interview last year.


He recently noted in a German newspaper that parallels to his sombre-yet-soaring plan for rebuilding Ground Zero in Manhattan can be found in Jerusalem's Temple Mount.[...]