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Rockwell, 46, is called, sometimes dismissively, an entertainment architect. He made his name with the fizzy-then-fizzled Planet Hollywood restaurants and has cemented it with the sets for the new Broadway musical Hairspray. But his peculiar talent is taking the notion of entertainment to new places, not just restaurants and sports stadiums but also malls and hotels and even hospitals. The spaces he designs are intended to elicit an emotional response; they're spectacular, unexpected, piquant...
...Jewish tombstones (see accompanying story). And in Poland, plans are afoot to build a new museum that will recreate homes, streets and whole villages representing 800 years of Jewish life. The museum will be constructed on the site of the infamous Warsaw ghetto. Discussions are under way with American architect Frank Gehry, the son of Polish Jews. "We want Poland to be seen as more than the world's largest Jewish graveyard," says project director Jerzy Halbersztadt. These efforts have one thing in common: their focus is not on how Jews died at the hands of Hitler and his sympathizers...
...Lady of the Angels is the work of Jose Rafael Moneo, the great Spanish architect whose roots are simultaneously in the here and now and in the sunlit antiquity of the Mediterranean rim. It was built in part because the Los Angeles archdiocese's previous seat, a much smaller church called St. Vibiana's, was badly damaged in the 1994 earthquake. But it was also built because L.A.'s powerful Roger Cardinal Mahony wanted it. Six years ago Mahony interviewed for the project a series of architects, including Frank Gehry, whose irresistible Walt Disney Concert Hall is going up just...
...church look like now? His answer: a public place that also accommodates private reflection. It's the old answer, of course, but one that must constantly be updated. For most of the past 1,000 years, architecture meant church design above all. Michelangelo, Bernini, Wren--to be an architect was chiefly to build houses for God, a demanding client but one who could make your name if you got things right. Then came the 20th century. Office towers and football stadiums pushed cathedrals into the cultural limbo occupied by library cards--those things we know we should revere...
DIED. BENJAMIN C. THOMPSON, 84, architect who transformed a decrepit waterfront in Boston into the vibrant Faneuil Hall; in Cambridge, Mass. Critics sneered at the mall as a sanitized replica of a European market, but Thompson repeated the formula across the country, including at Washington's Union Station...