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"Renzo Piano Wins Architecture's Top Prize"
-- "Piano will be presented with the prize at a dinner and ceremony at the White House on June 17." (Muschamp H, nyt_98.04.20)
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"Should Architects Buy Respect With a TV Ad Campaign?"
-- "Perhaps believing that architecture is the Rodney Dangerfield of professions -- architects 'don't get no respect' -- the American Institute of Architects is proposing to launch a multimillion-dollar, national television advertising campaign. ...
'How long will we architects continue to bury our heads in the sand and pretend that clients will hire us simply because we believe it is the right thing for them to do?' ..." (Lewis RK, wp_98.04.18)
"Memo on City Hall: Fix it, don't forsake it"
-- "Is Mayor Thomas Menino succumbing to occupational megalomania? ... This week, His Honor suggested it might be nice to build a new Boston City Hall." (Campbell R, bg_98.04.10)
- "You can't right City Hall"
  -- "... City Hall Plaza, by contrast, is dominated by what Edward Durell Stone once described as a building that looks 'like the crate that Faneuil Hall came in.'
  How do you redecorate when there is an elephant in the middle of the living room?" (McNamara E, bg_98.04.15)
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"New Projects in America -- As Millenium Approaches Here Are Five of the Best"
-- "With a host of ambitious new architectural projects beginning to transform the American landscape, The Wall Street Journal asked a panel of experts to pick the five ..." (Blount E, wsj_98.04.15)
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"Berlin Jews Seek More Time for Memorial"
-- "Andreas Nachama, the leader of the city's Jewish community, said all the designs on the list were too abstract." (r_98.04.15)
- "Consensus is elusive on German Holocaust memorial"
  -- "How to embody ... something so spectacularly unthinkable ...? How to avoid intellectualism, bombast, preciousness or even kitsch?" (Walsh, WM, dn_98.03.14)
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