Frontline Season 22 Episode 17 Sacred Ground

"Sacred Ground" chronicles the tortuous design process for the World Trade Center site, a contentious collaboration between architect Daniel Libeskind, the winner of a competition to design the site's master plan, and site developer Larry Silverstein and his favored architect, David Childs, all of whom are interviewed. New York governor George Pataki favored Libeskind's "iconic" 1776-ft. tall "Freedom Tower" plan, but Silverstein stood on his "absolute right" to choose an architect, and the battle---as much about money and power as aesthetics---was joined. Sums up architecture critic Paul Goldberger: "Do you ask Matisse and Dali to collaborate on painting a picture together?"