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Friday, July 21, 2006
L'Chaim! Daniel Libeskind in San Francisco
Daniel Libeskind is one of the most cutting-edge architects in the world. In 2003 he was awarded the commission to design the master plan for the reconstruction of the World Trade Center in New York.
Libeskind, the son of Holocaust survivors, rose to the top of his profession in 1989 when he was awarded a commission to design the Jewish Museum of Berlin. He also designed the Danish Jewish Museum in Copenhagen, the Wohl Center at Bar llam University in Tel-Aviv, the New Center for Arts and Culture in Boston, the Hummingbird Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto, and now he is designing the Contemporary Jewish Museum of San Francisco.
Libeskind's design for the new San Francisco museum calls for reuse of the historic Jessie Street Power Substation and a stunning new design addition. The long-abandoned Power Substation next to Saint Patrick's Church on Mission Street, across from the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, will be transformed into a spectacular and memorable 60,000-square-foot cultural destination. Libeskind's design will feature a majestic blue stainless steel structure that rises into the air and will be based on the Hebrew character for l'’chaim, (to life) .
On his website Libeskind writes, "The magic of architecture cannot be appropriated by any singular operation because it is always already floating progressing, rising, flying, breathing. Whatever the problems - political, tectonic, linguistic which architecture exposes, one thing I know is that only the intensity and passion of its call make it fun to engage in its practice."
Buildings rise in San Francisco continuously, but few hold the promise of new creation as much as the work of Daniel Libeskind.
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