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Venice is the greatest of museum cities, and it guards its monuments jealously. In fact, the city has largely resisted new architecture ever since the façade that closed the Piazza San Marco was built during Napoleonic days. Frank Lloyd Wright in 1953 tried to build a modest hanging-gardens-type palazzo on the Grand Canal, but civic fathers rejected the design as presumptuous. Now another brash suitor, France's Le Corbusier, has come to woo a place in the city that seems determined to sink into the sea unchanged...
...that the sick need a view. Corbu's partisans reply that the bedridden prefer a supine view of blue sky, birds and stars. All that the hospital must do to grow is go to sea, expanding, said the architect, "like an open hand." There is no façade or front door: ambulance boats can dock conveniently under the hospital at gondola ports. As much an adaptation of the Swiss lake villages, which Swiss-born Corbu knows well, as a ducal palace or a gondola garage, the design should please Venetians. Yet, however harmonious this adventuring architecture, there...
Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Hancock Center will taper to less than half-size at the top, stand on splayed steel legs, and jut out from Chicago's skyline like an enormous, glass-enclosed oil derrick. But far more revolutionary than its façade will be its double-duty interior plan. From the 43rd floor down, it is an ordinary office building, complete with seven floors of ramp-access parking. But from the 44th floor up, it turns into an apartment house with its own indoor swimming pool, enclosed shopping promenade and a topfloor restaurant...
Bravura Rembrandt. To cope with the current culture explosion, other museums sprout wings like seraphim. The Met is busily rebuilding itself behind its own monumental neoclassic façade...
...passively by while the students-mostly Chinese and North Vietnamese from Patrice Lumumba University-littered the embassy sidewalk with their placards (one portrayed a bomb-wielding Lyndon Johnson with a Hitler mustache), defaced the Seal of the United States beside the door, and hurled ink bottles at the fa?ade with slingshots, breaking windows as high as the eighth floor of the ten-story building...