Daniel Libeskind’s design for the World Trade Center site, which he calls ‘Memory Foundations’, “epitomises American society’s current morbid preoccupation with death and conflict. Several architecture commentators have pointed out that the subjective nature of Libeskind’s work is something new among architects, who rarely express their own feelings and tend to be more comfortable talking about the functional and technical aspects of buildings. The difference between Libeskind and a cool, rational architect such as Norman Foster is something like the difference between Princess Diana and a regal head of state.”