Daniel Libeskind, an architect known for memorializing historical trauma, will turn the site of 11 deaths back into a home for worship as well as a place to learn about confronting hatred. — The New York Times
In the wake of the October 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue shooting that left eleven worshipers dead and six more injured, the Tree of Life – Or L'Simcha Congregation was faced with a long internal discussion about the future of its building. This week, the synagogue's leadership announced the selection of New York architect Daniel Libeskind, a son of Polish Holocaust survivors himself, to lead the renovation effort of the campus.
As the New York Times reports, the initiative will also create classrooms, a communal space, a Hall of Memories dedicated to the 2018 attack as well as spaces for exhibitions and public programs of the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh.
"We must return," the paper quotes Rabbi Hazzan Jeffrey Myers of Tree of Life. "If we don’t, we give the message that evil won."
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Great. Another opportunity for Daniel to monetize tragedy for personal gain, and to create some ugly pointy shards rationalized with some pretentious drivel. If you asked the schmuck to design a pillow, it would be made of trapezoidal bits of metal and glass with enough razor-sharp corners to decapitate the user.
Rough weekend?
Pliny right on queue with the Libeskind hate.
tduds ... And yet you won’t even try to refute or rebut the essence of my comment ... (because you know it to be true) .
I'm not a Libeskind fan & so I won't bother to defend him. I'm not saying your criticisms are necessarily wrong, but I find it amusing that your entire history on this website consists of negative comments directed at one single architect. Ex-employee? Jilted lover? What gives?
tduds ..... None of the above ^^^ .... The once-respectable architectural industry has been undermined by ‘starchitects’ more interested in pushing their own celebrity than advancing the profession or improving the built environment. These self-interested imbeciles use shallow, pretentious and insupportable rhetoric to intimidate and exploit the impressionable and the gullible, who are fearful of being seen as philistines. Their ‘architecture’ (I use the word lightly, in this instance), is no more than a formal novelty act posing as refined sculpture. Respect for human scale or the neighboring context is never considered. - If the current state of the profession is weak, it is because turds like Daniel a Libeskind made it so. Libeskind is a braying jackass first, a lying huckster second, a circus side-show act third, and NEVER an architect. Libeskind’s contribution to the built environment is similar to that of a dog urinating up against a lamppost. You know he’s been there. He’s left his mark. But you wish he hadn’t.
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"If the current state of the profession is weak, it is because turds like Daniel a Libeskind made it so."
You give the guy way too much credit...and seem to have a urine obsession.
Actually ... the fact that you focused in on two words in a lengthy post says more about you than it says about me.
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