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...with such fervid opposition that it has had to be at least temporarily abandoned. The reason had little to do with the music and a lot to do with the composer and the anti-Semitic intellectual company he kept, both while he was alive and after his death: Father Jahn, Count Gobineau, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Alfred Rosenberg and Adolf Hitler...
...mixture of the predictable ("the biggest mall in Florida"), the high-minded ("I've been obsessed with creating a new chautauqua") and the intriguingly original ("We want to build workplaces, pilot factories"). He has already rejected schemes by Stern and Gwathmey Siegel. A design competition going on among Helmut Jahn, Charles Moore, Aldo Rossi and the firms Arquitectonica, Morphosis and Kohn Pedersen Fox has so far produced accepted designs by Jahn, Moore and Rossi. Trying to realize this biggest dream has been "a nightmare," Eisner says. He doesn't know exactly what he wants, but he wants...
...more salutary given the building's horribly overbuilt location: just 25 ft. east stands Metropolitan Tower, a grim, 66-story black glass trapezoid finished in 1986 (only the two-story Russian Tea Room separates the two buildings), and less than a block south is architect Helmut Jahn's new 70-story Cityspire. Yet instead of adding to the high-rise pile-on, Carnegie Hall Tower improves the neighborhood and the skyline -- in part by visually eclipsing Metropolitan Tower -- and proves that grandeur need not equal bulk. Pelli's apartment-and-office tower is a full block deep and 60 stories...
Standout example: the village of Oak Brook does not like the glitzy 31-story office tower designed by Architect Helmut Jahn any more than Joann Murphy does. But neighboring Oakbrook Terrace gladly let a developer put it up -- right on the border between the two communities. Then Oak Brook refused to widen a road running to one side of the building, even though the developer offered to pay for the work. Its argument: Oakbrook Terrace would get all the tax advantages of the new building, so let Oakbrook Terrace widen one of its own roads and choke on the ensuing...
...lights, action. Aubry's rigid canopy of pleated gold fiber glass, topped by a big wooden fish, is baffling but unequivocally vulgar--like kitsch from another planet, or a collaboration between Claes Oldenburg and Cher. Powell's arch, with its oversize keystones, is a frolicking postmodernist fancy, circa 1980. Jahn has used the tensile imagery of naval architecture (masts, rigging, an upturned hull) to produce a fine object, jaunty but tough--a structure considerably more appealing, in fact, than his skyscrapers...