David Magie Childsis an American architect and chairman emeritus of the architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. He is best known for his controversial redesign of the new One World Trade Center in New York City... (wikipedia)
It's a simpler, cleaner and iconic piece. It's a much better representation of a great monument.
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.
He really does believe that it's his destiny, so to speak, to do it and to do it right.