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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nInside, a series of \u201cVoids\u201d, tall, unheated concrete chambers, cut through the building from basement to roof. Visitors can peer into them from bridges overhead but cannot enter. They represent the absence left by the six million people killed in the Holocaust: the conversations, children, and contributions that no longer exist. The emptiness is the exhibit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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- Completed:<\/strong> 2001<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Construction cost:<\/strong> $87 million<\/strong> (approx. \u20ac60 million)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
2. World Trade Center Master Plan (New York City, USA)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
On 11 September 2001, nearly 3,000 people were killed when terrorist attacks brought down New York\u2019s Twin Towers. The 16-acre site became the most scrutinised piece of land on earth. After an intense international competition, Libeskind\u2019s \u201cMemory Foundations\u201d plan was selected to guide the rebuilding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nWhere others proposed filling the ground with new towers immediately, Libeskind kept the towers\u2019 footprints permanently open, the space that became today\u2019s memorial pools. He also fought successfully to preserve a stretch of original underground slurry wall that had survived the collapse, framing it as a symbol of resilience. It remains visible to visitors at the 9\/11 Memorial Museum today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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- Completed:<\/strong> 2003 (master plan selected); site construction 2006\u20132016<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Construction cost:<\/strong> Total site redevelopment cost over $20 billion<\/strong>. One World Trade Center alone cost $3.9 billion<\/strong>, making it the most expensive skyscraper ever built in the United States at the time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
3. Imperial War Museum North (Greater Manchester, UK)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
During World War II, the Trafford Park area of Greater Manchester, home to factories producing Lancaster bombers and Rolls-Royce aircraft engines, was targeted in the Manchester Blitz. Over two nights in December 1940, 684 people were killed. The Imperial War Museum\u2019s northern branch was built on that same bombed waterfront.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nThe building is composed of three interlocking aluminium-clad shards representing war on earth, in the air, and on water, fragments of a globe shattered by conflict. Inside, floors curve subtly underfoot and walls lean at unsettling angles. There are no comfortable right angles. The disorientation is deliberate: Libeskind wanted the building itself to produce the instability of wartime before a single exhibit is read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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- Completed:<\/strong> 2002<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Construction cost:<\/strong> \u00a328.5 million (approx. $40 million<\/strong>). Originally budgeted at \u00a340 million, the project was completed under budget after funding shortfalls led to design economies including substituting metal for concrete in the shards.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
4. Military History Museum of the Bundeswehr (Dresden, Germany)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
In February 1945, British and American bombers conducted devastating raids over Dresden, creating a firestorm that killed tens of thousands of civilians. Decades later, Libeskind was asked to transform the city\u2019s neoclassical military arsenal, originally completed in 1876, from a glorification of military power into an honest reckoning with war\u2019s costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nHis response was to drive a massive five-storey steel-and-glass wedge straight through the centre of the old building. The contrast between nineteenth-century stone and sharp modern glass is deliberately violent: authoritarian order cracked open. The tip of the wedge points in the direction from which Allied bombers approached on those February nights, a permanent, silent gesture anchoring the building to the city\u2019s defining wound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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- Completed:<\/strong> 2011<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Construction cost:<\/strong> \u20ac48 million (approx. $65 million<\/strong>), funded entirely by the German federal government.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
5. National Holocaust Monument (Ottawa, Canada)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Canada\u2019s national Holocaust memorial features six raw concrete volumes that, viewed from above, form a fractured Star of David, the ancient symbol of Jewish identity, broken apart. Visitors move through narrow, oppressive concrete corridors that gradually open upward to the sky: confinement giving way to hope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nThe interior walls carry large monochromatic photographs by artist Edward Burtynsky, laser-etched directly into the concrete, haunting wide-angle images of European death camp landscapes. History is not displayed on a panel to be walked past. It is built into the walls themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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- Completed:<\/strong> 2017<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Construction cost:<\/strong> C$7.2 million<\/strong> (approx. $5.6 million USD<\/strong>), split between the Canadian government and private donors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
6. Reflections at Keppel Bay (Singapore)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Not every Libeskind project is a memorial. This luxury waterfront development\u2014six curved glass towers between 24 and 41 storeys, demonstrates that the studio\u2019s philosophy translates equally into the architecture of everyday life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nIn a city defined by residential uniformity, the development was designed so that no two apartments across the entire complex share the same floor plan or view. Shifting angles, alternating orientations, and changing crown geometry give every home its own character. It is Libeskind\u2019s argument, made in glass and steel, that people deserve to live in spaces shaped for them, not mass-produced around them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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- Completed:<\/strong> 2011<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Construction cost:<\/strong> Construction cost not publicly disclosed. The development sold 1,129 luxury apartments across a 750-metre waterfront site, with unit prices at the time of sale ranging from SGD $1.5 million<\/strong> to over SGD $10 million<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
7. Z\u0142ota 44 (Warsaw, Poland)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Warsaw was systematically destroyed by Nazi Germany during World War II, over 85% of the city razed. That it stands today, rebuilt and thriving, is one of history\u2019s great acts of collective will. It was into this city that Libeskind returned to build his first major project in his birth country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nThe 52-storey, 192-metre luxury residential tower\u2019s sweeping glass facade curves upward in the shape of an eagle\u2019s wing, Poland\u2019s national emblem, representing freedom and sovereignty. Across the street, the heavy communist-era Palace of Culture looms. Z\u0142ota 44 rises in direct contrast: light, fluid, and forward-looking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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- Completed:<\/strong> 2016<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Construction cost:<\/strong> Estimated \u20ac163 million (approx. $175 million<\/strong>) construction cost. The project faced severe financial difficulties; the original developer sold it midway through construction for just \u20ac50 million after significant losses.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
8. Haeundae Udong Hyundai I\u2019Park (Busan, South Korea)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Busan is South Korea\u2019s second largest city and its largest port, a place whose identity is inseparable from the ocean. This waterfront development comprises three residential towers, the tallest reaching 72 storeys, alongside a hotel, offices, and retail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nEach tower was mathematically modelled to present a completely different silhouette depending on the angle of approach, the buildings seem to shift and breathe as you move around them. The curves draw on Korean natural tradition: ocean waves, wind-filled sails. The result is a large-scale modern complex that belongs unmistakably to the coastline it occupies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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- Completed:<\/strong> 2011<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Construction cost:<\/strong> Construction cost not publicly disclosed. The full 4.5-million-square-foot mixed-use development is one of the largest residential complexes in South Korea.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
9. PwC Tower \/ CityLife Master Plan (Milan, Italy)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Part of a major regeneration of Milan\u2019s historic fairgrounds, this 175-metre office tower, known locally as Il Curvo<\/em> (The Curved One), tilts and arcs in a single clean geometric sweep from base to summit. In a skyline of vertical towers, its curve is immediately legible from across the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nThe design is a contemporary reinterpretation of the arcing forms found throughout Italian architectural history, translated into glass and steel. A building that speaks to where it stands rather than ignoring it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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- Completed:<\/strong> 2020<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Construction cost:<\/strong> Construction cost not publicly disclosed. The broader CityLife masterplan, encompassing three towers by Libeskind, Zaha Hadid, and Arata Isozaki, plus residential and retail, represents a total investment of over \u20ac2 billion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
10. Infinity Towers (Shanghai, China)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Currently under construction for the Lingang Group, these twin 100-metre commercial towers twist as they rise, their forms designed to evoke two dancing cranes, ancient Chinese symbols of longevity and wisdom, leaning toward each other mid-step.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nThe towers are connected at the 15th floor by a skybridge whose centre features a circular opening in the floor, looking directly down onto public water plazas below. It is a small gesture but a characteristic one: in a building designed to function, Libeskind finds the moment where structure, nature, and wonder briefly meet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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- Completed:<\/strong> Under construction (expected completion not publicly confirmed)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Construction cost:<\/strong> Construction cost not publicly disclosed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Other Notable Projects<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Studio Libeskind has also designed the <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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- Zhang Zhidong Museum (Wuhan, China) <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Tikva Jewish Museum (Lisbon, Portugal) <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Modern Art Center Vilnius (Lithuania) <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Danish Jewish Museum (Denmark) <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- The Garden of Earthly Worries <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- The Wheel of Conscience Crystals at CityCenter (United States) <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Bord G\u00e1is Energy Theatre (Ireland)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre (Hong Kong) <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Ogden Centre at Durham University (United Kingdom) <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Memoria e Luce 9\/11 Memorial (Padua, Italy) <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Albert Einstein Discovery Center (Ulm, Germany)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Together, these projects demonstrate Studio Libeskind\u2019s defining conviction: that architecture is not a container for history, it is a way of making history felt. It is an approach that speaks directly to what Kigali will build at Gisozi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Zhang Zhidong Museum.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/06\/albert_einstein_discovery_center-3b725-1.webp\")
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- Construction cost:<\/strong> Construction cost not publicly disclosed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- Construction cost:<\/strong> Construction cost not publicly disclosed. The broader CityLife masterplan, encompassing three towers by Libeskind, Zaha Hadid, and Arata Isozaki, plus residential and retail, represents a total investment of over \u20ac2 billion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- Construction cost:<\/strong> Construction cost not publicly disclosed. The full 4.5-million-square-foot mixed-use development is one of the largest residential complexes in South Korea.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- Construction cost:<\/strong> Estimated \u20ac163 million (approx. $175 million<\/strong>) construction cost. The project faced severe financial difficulties; the original developer sold it midway through construction for just \u20ac50 million after significant losses.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- Construction cost:<\/strong> Construction cost not publicly disclosed. The development sold 1,129 luxury apartments across a 750-metre waterfront site, with unit prices at the time of sale ranging from SGD $1.5 million<\/strong> to over SGD $10 million<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- Construction cost:<\/strong> C$7.2 million<\/strong> (approx. $5.6 million USD<\/strong>), split between the Canadian government and private donors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- Construction cost:<\/strong> \u20ac48 million (approx. $65 million<\/strong>), funded entirely by the German federal government.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- Construction cost:<\/strong> \u00a328.5 million (approx. $40 million<\/strong>). Originally budgeted at \u00a340 million, the project was completed under budget after funding shortfalls led to design economies including substituting metal for concrete in the shards.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- Construction cost:<\/strong> Total site redevelopment cost over $20 billion<\/strong>. One World Trade Center alone cost $3.9 billion<\/strong>, making it the most expensive skyscraper ever built in the United States at the time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- Construction cost:<\/strong> $87 million<\/strong> (approx. \u20ac60 million)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n