Architect Daniel Libeskind Will Redesign the Tree of Life Synagogue and Build a Memorial to Victims of the 2018 Deadly Mass Shooting
The Tree of Life sanctuary windows will be preserved. Photo by S.M. Riemer. More than two years after a gunman shot and killed 11 worshipers during Shabbat service at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue, architect Daniel Libeskind will redesign the building, both as a way to commemorate the victims and to restore it as a place of worship. “When my parents, survivors of the Holocaust, and I came as immigrants to America, we felt an air of freedom as Jews in this country,” Libeskind said in a statement. “That is why this project is not simply about ‘Never Again.’ It is a project th...