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Daniel Libeskind

Warsaw’s changing horizon is set for more dramatic developments with the news that the Orco Property Group in conjunction with acclaimed architect Daniel Liebeskind are to construct a 192 metre residential tower in the heart of Warsaw. Flanked by the InterContinental Hotel and the Palace of Culture the Złota 44 project (www.zlota44tower.com) will house 251 luxury apartments, a 25 metre stainless steel swimming pool and top floor wooden sundeck. The daring glass tower effects the looks of a giant Arabian cutlass and in spite of an average price of 7,000 Euro per square metre apartments are already being snapped up fast by Polish celebs. Completion is sketched in for 2009 and packages include the chance to buy apartments with interiors designed by Liebeskind himself.
It’s the first time he’s chosen to design in Poland. Born in Łódź in 1946 much of Libeskind’s family was wiped out during the Holocaust, and he became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1965. On leaving school he originally opted to study music in Israel, becoming a virtuoso accordionist, before pursuing a degree in architecture at New York’s Cooper Union, and gaining a postgraduate degree from Essex University. Employed as the head of the architecture department at the Cranbrook Academy of Art he rocketed to fame when he won the commission to design the Jewish Museum in Berlin in 1989. Although it took ten years to complete the building proved a design masterpiece, and more commissions followed, including the Imperial War Museum in Manchester. To many though he will be most familiar as the man who won the contract to create the masterplan for the World Trade Center following the 9/11 attacks. Libeskind’s design envisaged a 541 metre Freedom Tower, including aerial gardens and windmills, transit station and museum. Wranglings with the other architects and developers involved meant that by 2004 Libeskind had been complexly squeezed out of the project, but he remains one of the worlds most eminent architects.

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