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...areas - urban anthropology, artist profiles, art with texts and art within art - the show features everything from conventional paintings and drawings to illuminated neon texts and installation pieces, and is an unusual offering for the Bass, which typically shows major European paintings, sculpture and tapestries in its sleek, Arata Isozaki-designed pavilion. (See the Top 10 Art Exhibitions...
...your weirdest creations. Anyway, I doff my hat to architects like Daniel Libeskind who enrich our design vocabulary. Sammy Somekh Ramat Gan, Israel Ever since the advent of angels and cathedrals, height has fascinated us. Today's sculpted towers capitalize on an ancient inclination. Daniel Libeskind, Zaha Hadid and Arata Isozaki have created fantasy buildings. But where are the new, exciting projects to please the millions of people worldwide who don't like heights? I'm delighted to be living near our town's elegant modernist De La Warr Pavilion, the architectural toast of 1935. This low-rise was designed...
...return to human scale wasn't always on the minds of architectural visionaries?sometimes just the opposite. The second segment of the Mori exhibition is given over partly to proposals by such architects as Japan's Kenzo Tange and Arata Isozaki for spectacular megastructures that are cities in themselves, endless systems of fabrication in which the built world is everything and nature is just that green fluff that Wordsworth used to go on about. These are dystopian imaginings, the last word in alienation, though it isn't always clear whether the architects who conceived them were much troubled by that...
...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 doing what should be, for a building, the impossible. Doing it very suavely...
...kneeling in prayer. But he would probably have smiled to learn that when International Gaudí Year is launched officially this month by Queen Sofía, the "chief builders" on hand in Barcelona's City Hall will include America's Frank Gehry, Britain's Norman Foster, Japan's Arata Isozaki and Spain's Oriol Bohigas...