And this solution did correspond to the vision which had grown on me, day after day, during one year. Right from the beginning, I have had the conviction that the Twin Towers should rise again in the skies of America, just because New York without them is simply not New York anymore.

In the first place, I believe that no one should ever forget what happened when seeing them, and that the new buildings should primarily be an homage of respect, love and remembrance dedicated to the innocents who were murdered in the attack, and to the heroes who perished while trying to save those who could no longer be saved.
But at the same time I also firmly believe that those towers have to become again a place where the sound of life is humming, where vitality radiates again, where activity peaks.

Because it is the best way to prove savagery defeated, to claim high and loud that the will for destruction lost its cause, and that hope and life eventually won over it.

Therefore the new Twins in my view should symbolize remembrance as well as energy and hope.
This is why in terms of look I have covered the former walls of visible steel girders under sheets of glass, mirror-like, tinted golden from the ground zero level, and ranging subtly from gold to deep blue, up to the top, where they would merge with the heavens.
- Gold is a symbol for energy, for strength, for life that burns in every beating heart. This energy of life bursting out of this devastated soil, like corn in summer, a Renaissance which no winter could ever stop.