World Trade Center Master Plan

New York, New York, USA Completed

In 2002, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) launched an international competition to redevelop the 16 acres in Lower Manhattan devastated by the terrorist attacks of September 11. Studio Libeskind’s proposal, Memory Foundations, was selected as the winning master plan. In developing the design, Daniel Libeskind worked closely with stakeholders, survivors, and the public—recognizing that the challenge was not simply architectural but deeply human. The plan sought to balance remembrance with renewal, preserving the memory of the tragedy while restoring vitality to one of New York’s most significant neighborhoods. At the heart of the concept is openness, light, and memory….

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Atrium at Sumner

Brooklyn, New York Under construction

Studio Libeskind designed the Atrium at Sumner in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, on NYCHA’s Sumner Houses Campus. The $132 million building is a partnership with the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), the NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD), the NYC Housing Development Corporation (HDC), Selfhelp Community Services, RiseBoro, and Urban Builders Collaborative/Lettire Construction Corp. The 11-story senior building was constructed on underutilized land on NYCHA’s Sumner Houses campus. The new building features 190 apartments, with 132 available to senior households earning below or equivalent to 50 percent of Area Median Income (AMI), 57 units reserved for seniors who…

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Archive and Artifact: the Cooper Union, New York City

To celebrate the digital archive’s progress, the school decided to showcase some of the physical originals of the school’s alumni alongside the in-progress digital archive (visitors can preview the archive using computers in the exhibition space). October 23 to December 1, 2018

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