The death last month of David Childs, an extraordinary Skidmore Owings and Merrill architect, who declined to join the ranks of vanity driven “starchitects,” despite his work on the post-9/11 ...

David Childs, the lead architect of the One World Trade Center skyscraper that rose from the site where the Twin Towers collapsed in New York City during the 9/11 attacks, has died. He was 83.