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...nursery rhyme about London Bridge falling down didn't put the architects off elaborate schemes, and no ink was wasted on nostalgia. It was calculated that the 820-ft. bridge would need to carry 147,000 sq. ft. of shops and housing to be financially self-supporting, and the architects knew that obscuring the famous view from Waterloo to St. Paul's Cathedral would be fatal. Iraqi-born English architect Zaha Hadid's plan, which shared first prize with French designer Antoine Grumbach's, is all cantilevered glass and steel with the bulkiest parts of the structure at either...
...very diplomatic. As a Palestinian, I think she would have loved to say a lot more, but within the confines of politics she can't," said local architect Omar F. Albadri...
...course, a cynic might dismiss the whole lot as blueprints for futuristic or retro college dormitory facilities across the nation: the pieces almost all resemble architectural scale models, with the grand, misguided feel of an architect's imagination gone amok Furthermore, the room used to exhibit the pieces seems inexplicably gloomy at times and is somewhat inconve niently catalogued...
...says Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, John Kornblum. "You can approach them idealistically, as an exercise in pure democracy. Or you can view them as a building block in a flawed but so far very successful peace process." Some observers are less optimistic. Says Richard Holbrooke, the architect of the Dayton accords: "Suppose a reasonably free and fair election chooses people who are pledged to separatism, when the Dayton accords call for a single country? These people--or at least their leaders--just don't want to live together...
...interview the next day, Morris adamantly declined to talk about the Star piece, and his motive was clearly to try to salvage his reputation as a political architect. Still, his perception of the role he played seemed revealing, and you can judge for yourself on page 32. His wife Eileen McGann, a noted lawyer, was much more willing to talk about the personal aspects of the brutal week. Both interviews, along with the story our political team put together on this odd saga and the analysis by Robert Wright of the values debate, offer, I hope, telling glimpses into...