

Others failed to make the grade. The "United Architects" group, including British avant-gardists Foreign Office Architects, proposed a more radical cluster of linked towers that failed to inspire. But the man emerging as the most committed emotionally is Daniel Libeskind, who made his name with the extraordinary fractured form of the Jewish Museum in Berlin, and with other projects such as the Imperial War Museum in Manchester, England. He has become architect of remembrance to the world. Affable, eloquent, and sincere, he won applause from relatives of the 9/11 victims at his presentation. His design is more poetic than Foster's, is far more complex - in fact deliberately chaotic - at ground level, and sends a needle of "sky gardens" high into the air as the symbolic market of the tragedy. The inspiration for Libeskind's tower - 16 feet taller than Foster's - is the Statue of Liberty.
