David Magie Childs (born April 1, 1941) is an American architect and chairman of the architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.[1] He is the architect of the new One World Trade Center in New York City.[2] (wikipedia)
It's a simpler, cleaner and iconic piece. It's a much better representation of a great monument.
He really does believe that it's his destiny, so to speak, to do it and to do it right.
It was a strange building because it had to go ahead right away. It didn't wait for any approvals or master plans.
For me, James has become much more than an artist doing a piece. He's the kind of guy who when you hire him to do an artistic piece like that wall system, you do it together, but then he's hanging around the office, so you ask his opinion on everything.
