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...OOSTEN PAVILION As the clouds pass over Amsterdam, colors shimmer and shift subtly on the surface of architect Steven Holl's magnificent yet playful cube. This riverside structure, built for a Dutch corporation, looks less as if it was made from glass and perforated metal than from the surrounding water and light...
...prone anyway to a kind of Hegelian metaphysics, a sense that they are not just designing department stores and offices but rendering the spirit of the age in steel and stone. In recent years, some of the more theoretically inclined among them, such as Peter Eisenman and Steven Holl, have been connecting their designs to things like French literary analysis, the kind that presumes to dismantle the falsehoods of language, or the "chaos theory" of physics, with its universe built on bubbling disorder. To put it mildly, these are notions that conventional buildings, with their aura of stability and authority...
...market, meaning that stocks there could easily rise even if the U.S. market goes into a long decline. The big problem is that no one knows for sure if the current turmoil is reaching an end. Despite that, Eric Fry, president of the money-management firm Holl International in San Francisco, is jumping in with both feet...
...OTHER FRIDAY, JIM HOLL, 24, went with his wife Carrie, 25, to see the girls-to-women bonding drama Now and Then at a Los Angeles theater. "I did not come wholly of my own volition," Holl confessed, "but I'll watch and listen. We take turns choosing movies. Last time we saw Showgirls, which was really bad, and that was my pick. Besides, do you realize the points I get for this? I can watch three Monday Night Football games guilt free." Ah, the things some men do for the women they love...
...Maki is that rare designer whose buildings are decorous but also fetchingly strange, a little dreamlike. His rather subtle work has never got as much press as has the work of his more voguish Japanese peers Arata Isozaki and Tadao Ando (whose buildings are, respectively, Tokyo-by-way-of- Holl ywood lollapaloozas and ascetic Zen bunkers), but now that inequity seems moot: this week Maki was to be named the winner of the 1993 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the field's de facto Nobel...