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...early 2000, after several years of being groomed to take over Gates’ position as Microsoft’s public spokesperson, Ballmer assumed the position of CEO when Gates stepped aside to become chief software architect...
...building plan by architect Henry N. Cobb proposes two four-story buildings of rounded glass and terra cotta facing each other across Cambridge Street. The latest point of contention is an underground tunnel beneath the street that would link the buildings...
...towers were symbols of "the midcentury arrogance of architects," says architect David Childs of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. "What they did to lower Manhattan was an act of vandalism just as complete as Sept. 11." Childs, a well-regarded figure in the architectural world, has been commissioned by Larry Silverstein, the developer, to draw up proposals for the Trade Center site. The Port Authority and L.M.D.C., of course, are shopping for their own design team. How their eventual plans will be reconciled with Silverstein's remains to be seen. But for now the project has Childs thinking big. Granting that very...
...from which Memorial Day originated. This conscious desire to be closer to the dead started showing up in more concrete structures with the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, which invites us to run our fingertips over the names of our countrymen, in effect to touch the dead. The architect, Maya Lin, said that the wall gives off reflections so that we may see ourselves in the names...
Recently, Harvard has been seeking to build a new art museum—designed by famed architect Renzo Piano and dedicated to modern work—but the plan has been way-laid by concerns of Riverside residents who live near the proposed site...