Toronto Star

Daniel Libeskind calls it Flames of Memory. Actually it's a sweeping, soaring and stirring $5-million memorial to Jewish war veterans scheduled to be built in Earl Bales Park near Bathurst St. and Sheppard Ave. W. Though the project is minuscule compared to the redevelopment of the World Trade Center in New York and his two Toronto makeovers — the Royal Ontario Museum and the Hummingbird Centre for the Arts — there are reasons why one of the world's most revered architects agreed to do it. "It's very meaningful for me personally," Libeskind explained yesterday, speaking on a cellphone while travelling in Europe, "because of its profoundly Jewish subject, because there is nothing more important than honouring these people who must not be forgotten, and because it is in Toronto, which my wife, Nina, considers one of the greatest cities in the world."