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...shaped the entire site to speak to the traces of the event and to its significance," he says. "But we also want to reassert its vitality." So all around and above, Libeskind offers life rearing up in triumph. Above the hole there's the museum in his signature angular style. On three surrounding sides is an ensemble of towers, including a 70 story office structure with a spire that rises to the patriotic altitude of 1,776 ft.--the world's tallest building. In a gesture that harks back to the ancient solar markers of Egypt and Peru...
...famed guitar jam, “Rice Pudding.” The band really shines, however, on “Stars As Clocks” and “Table For Two,” two songs that exhibit more of an all-encompassing band. The angular guitars of “Stars As Clocks” are reminiscent of Sonic Youth, while the moog synth line that haunts “Table For Two” is equally striking...
...initial angular design, drawn by noted architect Hans Hollein, winner of the Pritzker Prize in architecture, met with criticism from members of the Harvard Square Defense Fund (HSDF...
Libeskind, who is best known for his haunting design of the Jewish Museum in Berlin, should have known better. The Jewish Museum is composed of a labyrinth of angular corridors and startling voids—spaces at the heart of the building, visible but inaccessible to museum-goers. The effect is deeply unsettling. It speaks volumes about our inability to dwell in the wake of death without in some way internalizing its final nullity. This is not art struck dumb, but art realizing its limitations, its profound humanness. Sometimes what we cannot...
Sound--"the voice of the site"--is still crucial to his design work. The emotional climax of the Jewish Museum is a trapezoidal room that signifies the catastrophe of the Holocaust. Visitors enter an angular, concrete cell in which the only light comes from a narrow slot high above. When the heavy door is closed behind you, you are simply there in the dark, confronting the desolation of history at one of its bleakest dead ends. You can barely hear the street traffic outside; the world cannot hear...