Born in Princeton, New Jersey, on April 1, 1941, Childs found his calling in architecture after a lecture by architectural historian Vincent Scully while studying at Yale.

David Childs, the star architect who helped shape New York City’s skyline and designed 1 World Trade Center, has died at 83. The cause was Lewy body dementia, his wife told The New York Times.

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.

Architect David Childs talks about his design for the new 7 World Trade Center, a 52-story building, during the design's unveiling at the construction site in New York on Nov. 20, 2002.

David M. Childs, an architect who crowned the New York City skyline with the tallest building in the Americas — a shimmering new 1 World Trade Center in place of the twin towers destroyed on 9/ ...

David Childs, the architect behind 1 World Trade Center, the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere that was built on the site of the former Twin Towers destroyed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks ...

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.

David Childs, whose tower rose at Manhattan 9/11 site, dies at 83. Mr. Childs, the lead architect of One World Trade Center, made his first design sketch on a napkin a couple of years after the ...

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. Childs died on ...

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.

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.