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- "ROH curtain rises on a glass act"
-- "The real architectural statement for the next century has come galloping along like an outsider at the Grand National and eclipsed both the Dome and the Wheel." (Philippa Stockley, les_99.11.30)
- "Fitting Nod to the Future"
-- "There may well be a bit of controversy as this modern master of sleek glass-and-steel towers turns his attention to this sprawling collection of Spanish-style stucco.
Let it come. We salute university President Handel Evans, an architect himself, for daring to recruit his old schoolmate ..." (lat_99.11.28)
- "General deconstruction of de Young Museum"
-- "Under the leadership of Fine Arts Museums director Harry S. Parker III and chief curator Steven A. Nash, and with the often painful input of San Francisco's vocal citizenry, the de Young is being reconceived from the ground up." (David Bonetti, sfe_99.11.29)
- "Building on What It Means to Be Truly Human"
-- "It was a century of big dreams and high hopes for architecture." (Nicolai Ouroussoff, lat_99.11.28)
- "Artistry and Social Compassion in Counterpoint"
-- "Shigeru Ban, an architect who lives in Tokyo, has not allowed himself the safe distance enjoyed by our remote controllers. .... " (Herbert Muschamp, nyt_99.11.28)
- "The Eloquence Of Emptiness"
-- "The empty museum's unusual popularity results in part from the long, highly public struggle to get the institution established and built. Mostly, however, it testifies to the strangeness and power of the architecture." (Benjamin Forgey, wp_99.11.27)
- "Downsview Selects Five Finalists in International Park Design
Competition"
-- "This is the first major international design competition to be held in Toronto since 1958." (Gordon Farquharson, Chairman of the Board of CLC Downsview Inc, in cnw/prn_99.11.26)
- "One of the 'immortal ones' helps enrich the Louvre "
-- "Another hot topic within what Mr Rosenberg calls 'the international mafia of museum directors' is the new dominance of architecture. ... Frank Gehry's museum in Bilbao may look like a Chernobyl melt-down, but people rush to see it." (_99.11.24)
- "The media centre at Lord's cricket ground has won the UK's most prestigious architecture prize."
-- "The making of good buildings - the creation of architecture - is a formidable task. It requires imagination, persistence, diplomacy and, often, sheer bloody-mindedness ... It is not an activity for the nervous or faint-hearted." (Rhona Brankin, Scottish deputy arts minister, bbc_99.11.22)
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