The public has to understand, it's not just build some buildings. I don't think there has ever been such a project with such urgency and such speed, given the complexity.

The public has to understand, it's not just build some buildings,

It is a very unusual thing where you have a contemporary campus of buildings, where you have Michael Graves, you have the Ponti building to connect them and create more than just isolated buildings around a public space in ways that frame that every footstep.

I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings.

I think it's the greatest form of art, to create a residential building, ... We often judge cities by great public buildings. But we admire great cities because people live there in a beautiful way. You have to think about how each person will live there; you can't just think about abstract ideas.

I think that there is room obviously for many architects to work on this site. It's not going to be done just by one architect,