The Architect of the Ground Zero 'Mosque' is a Lebanese Christian
So we went back to really some of the most ancient traditional elements, internationally – even though we’re so aware it’s been done before, by other architects, namely by Jean Nouvel – taking the Islamic motif and converting it into some sort of facade. In our case it was a little more than that. It was going back to the very essence to what makes Islamic architecture recognizable, and if you go back to history there’s a single motif, the Mashrabiya, the sun screen really, using abstract representations, very elaborate arabesques, and turn that motif into some sort of a map to create the facade
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