[ch.man]

Libeskind, who is based in Berlin

The thought of a german architect winning the design contest is quite interesting... especially theses days!

[jpthomas]

Rest easy. He's not German. I saw a short blurb on him on TV recently. He's a Polish immigrant to the US who survived the holocaust and came this country as a young boy. I'm not sure why he works out of Berlin (perhaps because of the construction opportunities there after the fall of the Wall).