Global Zero at Ground Zero

David Rockwell builds at Ground Zero

And of course, at Ground Zero what else?

If they did, it probably was right there at Ground Zero.

In the midst of the wreckage at Ground Zero, I had a realization.

There was a school, PS 234, that had been evacuated down at Ground Zero.

And Ground Zero, despite all its difficulties, it's moving forward.

There's a new place in New York where the crowds are thickest Ground Zero.

I took this down to Ground Zero, and knocked my way through crowds for an hour.

And in the northern part of the main island, this is ground zero for world longevity.

In this emotionally charged conversation with journalist Kurt Andersen, designer David Rockwell discusses the process of building a viewing platform at Ground Zero shortly after 9 11.

So have you come to peace with the process that happened at Ground Zero and the loss of the original, incredible design that you came up with?

JA If you think about it, Ground Zero is unlike most any other tourist site in America.

September 11 generated some interest in moving it over to Ground Zero, and I'm totally against that.

I just feel uncomfortable talking about or building anything on Ground Zero I think for a long time.

Fresh water freezes at zero.

And I believe that what will be built at Ground Zero will be meaningful, will be inspiring, will tell other generations of the sacrifices, of the meaning of this event.

Water freezes at zero degrees Celsius.

Water will freeze at zero Celsius, right?

The elements are indexed by integers starting at zero.

And a day or two before it opened was Giuliani's farewell address, where he proposed the idea of all of Ground Zero being a memorial.

We need to look carefully at our zero tolerance policies.

So in a sense this is an absolute zero carbon, zero fossil fuel electric mile at two cents a mile by 2020.

(1) Fome Zero (Zero Hunger Program)

The temperature at the surface is some 350 degrees below zero Fahrenheit.

The ground surface at 150 typical.

There's commercial at the ground floor.

Because when we looked at the four platforms around the site, one of which is an upgrade of the families' platform, we knew that these had to be moveable to respond to changing conditions, and the changing definition of what Ground Zero is.

Now, if any of you have ever heard of AIM, the American Indian Movement, or of Russell Means, or Leonard Peltier, or of the stand off at Oglala, then you know that Pine Ridge is ground zero for Native issues in the U.S.

The two numbers are zero as in zero footprint or zero oil and scale it infinity.

At the beginning of the show, for example, Zero deejays dream and reality.

So we're going to represent a belief with a number between zero and one zero meaning I don't believe it at all, one means I'm absolutely certain.

It's about zero sum and non zero sum games.

Zero.

The foremost is that if we're blank slates, then, by definition, we are equal, because zero equals zero equals zero.

Zero is Zero, a little hero of the 21st Century, and Zero can touch so many more people than I possibly could.

Pang Zero

Seven zero.

It comes out of the ground at 130 octane.

Either way, your fortunes add up to zero. That's a zero sum game.

Don't keep your eyes on the ground look at me.

Zero. Very good.

Period. None. Zero.

Germany s Zero Hour

They put 180 percent tax on gasoline cars and zero tax on zero emission cars.