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[Sydney Opera House Renovation, Sydney]

• parting shot
  "Cultural institutions cannot stand still ... to preserve them in aspic is to condemn them ultimately to irrelevance ... The fact that this is a very distinctive building doesn't detract from the fact that it's a performing arts centre. It's not a public sculpture, it's not a monument, it has an active life; Utzon understood that and so does the Opera House Trust." (Tim Jacobs, the retiring chief executive officer of the Opera House, in Cochrane P, smh_98.05.08)

• trenchantly
  "... if they are not made, the Opera House may be nothing more than 'a piece of public sculpture in 20 years' time'." (-- as it was put in a letter to the Herald written by a Sydney architect, Phillip Sametz, in Editorial, smh_98.05.07)

   
  

• vision
  "One answer may be to make the building more functional on the inside while leaving the outside in its present and past state ... Joern Utzon's designs to the inside of the Opera House were never carried out, anyway. Nothing that is done now to the inside of the building, therefore, can compromise the Utzon vision for the interior." (Editorial, smh_98.05.07)

   
  

• dishonour
  "... are we going to bring a 14th-century building up to the 20th century? ... reinforced most of us as the lazy people that we are ... it's like saying I'd like the Mona Lisa to have ..." (Glenn Murcutt, in Susskind A, smh_98.05.05)

   
  

• devotees
  "But according to some of Utzon's most devoted aficionados - architects Alex Popov, Peter Myers and Richard Leplastrier, men who worked for Utzon - this is not good enough. No-one should work on the Opera House if Utzon will not. As Utzon is not interested, nor are they." (Susskind A, smh_98.04.08)

• playing around
  "If a work by Matisse is found unfinished and thwarted, one should simply leave it alone." (Richard Leplastrier, in Susskind A, smh_98.04.08)

• eager-beaver epoch
  "I don't give a stuff about the so-called functional inadequacies. Criticising the building is like criticising a geological epoch.
  They, with eager-beaver architects, are going to try and make it interesting, add a lifestyle gloss when in fact it's a very severe building ..." (Peter Myers, in Susskind A, smh_98.04.08)

• right-hand
  "It's a Band-Aid thing, they should be using any money to work towards the realisation of Utzon's original design ... get rid of the Concert Hall, and return the Opera House to a proper Opera House." (Bill Wheatland, in Susskind A, smh_98.04.08)

   
  

• very gentle
  "The icon is the external image." (The Government Architect, Chris Johnson, in Anne Susskind, smh_98.04.08)

• as is
  "... Utzon's position is that he wants to be left alone ..." (Susskind A, smh_98.04.08)

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[Fondation Beyeler, Basel]

• timely
  "Before I chose Renzo ... I thought I might hold a design competition, but I was in a hurry. I just went ahead and picked him ... As it turned out, selecting Piano didn't save time. The architect's ... was engaged in large international projects ... There were delays and the design went slowly ..." (Beyeler, in Schmertz MF, adg_Oct97)

   
  

• chiseled
  "They say signature buildings will entice visitors and patrons who will contribute money and art to improve collections.
  The reality has often been that patrons give money for new buildings or add to wings to existing buildings because they can chisel their names onto them. The art comes later, if at all.

  Mr Meier's High Museum of Art in Atlanta is an example ... a poor place in which to see art. And ... the trustees still haven't added a great deal of art worth seeing to the collection." (Kimmelman M, nyt_98.02.05)

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