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...Mahony may have thought about Gehry's exuberant aesthetic, he found a kindred spirit in Moneo, a 1996 winner of the Pritzker Prize, the crown jewel of architectural awards. But even before its official opening, on Labor Day weekend, there have been grumblings that the cathedral's asymmetrical and angular silhouette departs too sharply from conventional notions of church design, especially that of Catholic churches. There have also been complaints that its $163 million cost is too high, especially at a time when the archdiocese may have to spend heavily to settle court claims of sexual abuse by priests...
...BROWN, 67, former director of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, who oversaw the construction of Washington's Vietnam Veterans Memorial; in Boston. During his 23-year tenure as director of the National Gallery of Art, Brown greatly expanded its collection and the building itself, adding the gallery's angular East Wing. RECOVERING. BHUMIBOL ADULYADEJ, 74, Thailand's King, after a hernia operation; in Bangkok. King Bhumibol, on the throne since 1946, is the world's longest reigning monarch. FIRED. RUSSELL MILLS, 57, publisher of the Ottawa Citizen, for publishing articles critical of Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chr?tien and calling...
...arrivals and departures. As a result, the building possesses a dynamic interface between the passengers and their transport. This subtle bending of rigid shapes lends their models a palpable warmth, as realized in their Maria Colonel apartment block designed in the mid-1970s in Seville. The outer structure is angular and somewhat abrasive, but the courtyard within is organic and comforting, having been constructed in the shape of a kidney or an artist’s palette...
...partly because of concerns that Abraham's design was too challenging for an official building. They had a point. The design is severe and saw-toothed, with nothing Sound of Music about it, unless the music you have in mind is Schoenberg. It harks back instead to the angular daring of Adolf Loos and Otto Wagner, the great figures of Viennese modernism, and even further, to the first principles of building that modernism rediscovered. "I try to connect to the origins of architecture," says Abraham. "Digging a hole, making a mound...
Floor by floor, the Forum is as eventful as a totem pole. To satisfy zoning regulations that require upper stories to be set back to admit sunlight to the street, most architects provide a stair-step silhouette. Abraham produced a diagonal slope with angular overhangs, like teeth on a harpoon. His upper stories simultaneously thrust upward and avalanche down. Below that, the director's office is housed in a glass box that juts from the zinc facade...