LIBESKIND DANIEL

BY
Rajesh kumar.
 INTRODUCTION

Libeskind, Daniel (1946- ), (pronounced LEE bes

kihnd) Polish-born architect, architectural theorist, and
educator. In 2003 his design won the competition to
redevelop the site of the former World Trade Center
(WTC) in New York City.

Libeskind was born in Poland, to Jewish survivors of

the Holocaust. As a youngster he moved with his family
to Israel in 1957 and to the United States in 1959. He
became a U.S. citizen in 1965. Although trained as a
classical pianist in Israel and New York City, he switched
to architecture and received a bachelor of architecture
degree from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of
Science and Art in 1970. He continued his studies at the
University of Essex in England, receiving a master of
arts degree in the history and theory of architecture in
1972.
CREATIVE MEDIA CENTRE

The Creative Media Centre for the City

University of Hong Kong provides facilities which will
enable the University to become the first in Asia to
offer the highest level of education and training in the
Creative Media fields. In addition to the School of
Creative Media, the Centre will also house the Centre
for Media Technology and the Department of
Computer Engineering and Information Technology
The distinctive crystalline design will serve as an
architectural icon for the departments housed within, and
will contain an extraordinary range of spaces rich in form,
light, and material that, together, will create an inspiring
environment for research and creativity. Internal spaces
have been designed specifically to encourage
collaboration through an openness and connectivity of
activity area. It will also provide an exciting place for
visitors, who will be welcomed to enjoy the facilities as
part of an extended public outreach program of courses
and events. Secluded landscaped gardens to the north of
the building will be available for students and public alike.

Accomodations inlcude a multi-purpose theatre,

sound stages, laboratories, classrooms, exhibition spaces,
and a café andrestaurant
LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY GRADUATE CENTRE

The Graduate Student Centre for the London

Metropolitan University is a small building dedicated to the
growing graduate population and is placed as a major gateway
to the University on Holloway Road.

The University argues that top quality design can greatly

improve the educational experience for the students as they
feel valued and enjoy learning in high-quality surroundings

ORION - the spatial emblem of the

Northern sky – is the guiding light for
developing a unique icon for the
London Metropolitan University
on Holloway Road. The Orion
project provides a landmark attracting
visitors to the cultural program within
by its articulated forms.
The Orion project has an enlivening impact on the wider
urban context and particularly on the image and
accessibility of the University. The three intersecting
elements that form the building strategically emphasis
certain relationships:. A small plaza at the entrance
provides an accent and an engaging gateway.

The ORION building is composed of three intersecting

volumes with a distinctive presence on the street and
unique interior spaces. The building is clad entirely with
embossed coloured stainless steel panels creating a shining
and ever-changing surface. Windows are conceived as large
geometrical cuts providing accentuated natural light for the
café, galleries and seminars. The interior spaces are simple,
bold volumes which provide multi-purpose flexibility for
programmatic events.
The design accommodates the public functions of
the building, while securing the more private
University functions. The entire building or parts
of the building can be separated to be used for
public events. At the same time, the new building
is integrated into the circulation patterns of the
University and if need be can be totally closed off
to the public.

ORION is a contribution to the intense urban life

on Holloway Road and to the graduate students
of the London Metropolitan University. The
interior and exterior provide a unity of
composition and a magnet to the facility
 ZLOTA RESIDENTIAL TOWERWARSAW,
POLAND
As someone who knows the Polish culture
intimately and who lived under the strategy
of Poland, between the destruction by the
Nazis and oppression under the Soviets, this
building represents a new direction for
Poland, east and west.
It is a response to the destruction of Warsaw and post war
Russian reconstruction. The building offers a new light with its
façade, its form, shape, a new profile form which a new
skyline of Warsaw can be read. This is not another corporate
building that keeps Warsaw as a tabularasa. It is a building
that embraces the aspirations of Warsaw and is mindful of its
economic circumstances. The eastern face of the building is
sculpted by the path of the sun to provide required day light
to surrounding buildings. It is a unique building shaped by
Warsaw’s history and its light. This building will address a
major shift in major cities around the world, where residential
buildings will emerge as the most striking designs
MEMORY FOUNDATIONS WORLD TRADE CENTER
MASTER PLAN
The exciting architecture of the new Lower Manhattan Rail
station with a concourse linking the Path trains, the subways
connected, hotels, a performing arts center, office towers,
underground malls, street level shops, restaurants, cafes; create
a dense and exhilarating affirmation of New York.

The sky will be home again to a towering spire of

1776 feet high, an antenna Tower with gardens.
Why gardens? Because gardens are a constant
affirmation of life. A 1776 foot skyscraper rises
above its predecessors, reasserting the
pre-eminence of freedom and beauty, restoring
the spiritual peak to the city, creating a building
that speaks of our vitality in the face of danger
and our optimism in the aftermath of tragedy.
 ABOUT THE ARCHITECT

A man of wide-ranging interests, Libeskind quickly

attained prominence in the sphere of architectural theory
and debate. His theoretical concerns brought him
teaching appointments in several countries, including
England, Germany, and the United States. From 1978 to
1985 he headed the department of architecture at
Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. In
1985 he founded an architecture school in Milan, Italy. In
the early 2000s Libeskind held teaching positions at the
College of Design in Karlsruhe, Germany, and the
University of Pennsylvania. In 1989 Libeskind won his first
building commission, for a new Jewish Museum in Berlin,
Germany.
 Libeskind believes that buildings should communicate
something about their time, location, and history, as
demonstrated by his evocative Jewish Museum in Berlin, which
was completed in 1999. Its symbolic design reflects the fate of
the Jewish people under Nazism. The zigzagging shape of the
zinc-clad building recalls a fragmented Star of David, the six-
pointed symbol of Judaism that Jews were forced to wear under
the Nazis. The main routes in the museum lead three places: to
the Stairs of Continuity, which link to exhibits on German Jewish
history; to the Garden of Exile, in which concrete columns
represent Jews who emigrated; and to the Holocaust Tower, a
narrow, dark, unheated, and empty space that is closed off. A
walk through the museum is meant to disorient and frighten
the visitor with broken spaces, dead-ends, tilted floors, and a
void at the heart of the museum meant to remind visitors of the
absence of Germany’s once-flourishing Jewish community
 The museum’s unconventional design proved controversial
but it turned Libeskind into a much-sought-after architect.
The building commissions he received include the Imperial
War Museum (1997-2002) in Manchester, England; an
expansion to the Denver Art Museum in Colorado (2000-
2005); and an addition to the Victoria and Albert Museum in
London England (1996-2006).

Libeskind’s winning design for the World Trade Center

memorial, like his Jewish Museum, uses symbolism for
emotional impact.
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Royal Ontario Museum