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Karen Stein, Pritzker Juror and Editorial Director of the Phaidon Press, a publisher of books on the visual arts, describes Mayne as “the biggest risk-taker in architecture...
...graduate and former visiting critic at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), who has received international acclaim for his unique work, was named the 2005 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Award yesterday...
According to the Pritzker Award press release, Mayne is the head of Morphosis, an architectural firm which designs large-scale projects such as the Student Recreation Center at the University of Cincinnati, a federal courthouse in Oregon, a new art and engineering building for Cooper Union in Manhattan, and the headquarters building for California’s Department of Transportation in Los Angeles...
Libeskind pauses before one large image near the center that says it all. It shows the three towers as they will appear at completion. On the left is a dashing, torqued configuration by Zaha Hadid, the London-based architect who was this year's winner of the Pritzker Prize, architecture's most prestigious award. On the right is Japanese architect Arata Isozaki's furrowed wafer of glass and steel, buttressed by diagonal struts that seem almost too slender for their supporting role. And between them is Libeskind's contribution, a supreme bit of architectural legerdemain. It's a curving tower...
...million addition to the city's famous museum row. The reflective stainless-steel sculpture (which its British creator, Anish Kapoor, calls Cloud Gate) distorts North Michigan Avenue like a fun-house mirror. Weather permitting, you can check out architect Frank Gehry's dynamic bandshell at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion. (If you need to check email, the north and south ends of the park carry wifi Internet signals...