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[Carnegie Science Center Expansion, Pittsburgh]

• cantilevered out
  "[Common Pleas Judge] Lucchino said he was hoping for 'a signature building,' an individualistic structure that will bring attention to Pittsburgh the way the opera house in Sydney, Australia, or the new Guggenheim museum in Bilbao, Spain, have done for those cities." (Tom Barnes, ppg_00.10.25)

[The New York Times Headquarters, Manhattan]

• gossamer vision
  "The New York Times plans to stake a gossamer claim to the mid-Manhattan skyline with a faceted, shimmering, semitransparent headquarters by Renzo Piano, an Italian architect who has enjoyed the international spotlight since the construction of the Centre Pompidou in Paris 23 years ago." (David W Dunlap, nyt_00.10.13)

• ceramic bars
  "... Mr Piano had been chosen in part on the strength of the distinctive facade he has proposed; in essence, a skin of clear glass enveloped in screens that seem almost to float in the air around the tower ..." (Michael Golden, the vice chairman and senior vice president of The New York Times Company, in David W Dunlap, nyt_00.10.13)  

• some way
  "In some ways, it is like information. Information is immaterial."

• the color of the moment
  "It's always very dangerous to look for symbolism ... But in some way, I love the idea that the spirit of a newspaper like The New York Times is expressed semantically." (Renzo Piano in David W Dunlap, nyt_00.10.13)

• just a trend
  "For me ... the romance comes from the capacity of the building to sing in some way, to vibrate and to be a mirror of the weather. ... My real hope ... is that the building will be loved." (Renzo Piano in David W Dunlap, nyt_00.10.13)

• just say
  "The only other partnership of architects in the competition, Mr. Gehry and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, withdrew last week before the final judging. 'I would just say our process was incompatible,' Mr. Gehry said yesterday. ... Mr. Golden said he regretted the withdrawal but would not characterize it further." (David W Dunlap, nyt_00.10.13)

   

• office cum research
  "Known to be spectacularly charming, even by Italian standards, Mr. Piano works in teams that sometimes include his second wife, Milly. He has two sons, Carlo, a journalist in Milan, and Matteo, an industrial designer in Genoa; his daughter Lia is studying literature in Rome. Recently, the couple adopted a third son, 17-month-old Giorgio, whom visitors sometimes find proudly perched on his father's drafting table ..." (Julie V Iovine, nyt_00.10.13)

[MoMA Temporary Museum, Long Island City, Queens]

 

• best-known
  "the best-known of the group, specializes in hybrid projects that combine architectural design and electronic communications" (Herbert Muschamp, nyt_00.01.26)
   
  
• formerly worked for
  "formerly worked for Frank Gehry, is now designing an expansion of the Armand Hammer Museum in Los Angeles" (Herbert Muschamp, nyt_00.01.26)
   
  
• former associate of
  "a rising star in the field of interior architecture, is a former associate of Rem Koolhaas" (Herbert Muschamp, nyt_00.01.26)
   
  
• was featured in
  "was featured in the Modern's 1999 show 'The Un-Private House.'" (Herbert Muschamp, nyt_00.01.26)

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[Christchurch Art Gallery, Cantebury]     *** more

• question of priorities
  "We're told that the new gallery looks foreign, strange, bizarre. It was designed by a firm with strong Australian (semi-foreign) connections using a huge wall of glass (suspiciously alien) on which we can presumably apply stick-on kangaroos, gladioli, and Fosters cans to emphasise that it was designed by people originating to the north of Culverden and to the west of Greymouth. Some may even come from Auckland, God help us." (Moore C, p/nz_98.12.11)
   
• vibrant cultural identity
  "Four of the finalists have direct links with Christchurch: the Designgroup consortium, which includes the Christchurch architectural firm of Skews, Hey, and Ussher; the Australian/Christchurch joint venture of Barclay Architects/Peddle Thorp Architects; Christchurch architect Sir Miles Warren; and the Boon Cox Goldsmith Jackson design, involving Christchurch architect Stewart Ross. Auckland's Buchan Group has also been short-listed." (p/nz_98.11.25)

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