tj gottesdiener was one of the architects who designed a new skyscraper for the site.can't understand what happened. people are just standing around, talking at each other, nodding their heads. screaming. oh, my god! we've got to go! oh, my god! 0n the day of 9—11, i was actually not in new york, i was in hong kong. i'd gone there for a client meeting. it was evening when the news broke. over here! get here, get here! don't go in that building. come here, come here.... screaming. this is incredible. i've never seen anything like this. it was very, very unsettling for us. a lot of concern about the people, what was happening, the office — which is right next to the site, my family. it was, uh... it was a day i regret not being in new york. it was a tragic scene. there was a lot of recovery necessary at this site. we felt challenged. at the heart of manhattan, there's still a huge gap, to be filled by one of nine competing designs, offered by a who's who of global architecture. larry silverstein won the rights to be the landlord of the site. he called us up and said, ple