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...take stock. One invited speaker, Richard Koppes, a former CalPERS general counsel, delivered a blunt message. "Your friends think you're unfocused and too political," Koppes said. "They say you're beginning to damage the corporate-governance movement." CalPERS president Sean Harrigan, a grocery workers' union boss and an architect of the institutional investor's bare-knuckle strategy, got a more pointed message two weeks ago from the state personnel board he represented at CalPERS: it replaced him with Republican real estate developer Ronald Alvarado...
Crimson coach Tim Murphy, architect of two undefeated campaigns in four years, confirmed yesterday that he will likely patrol the Harvard sidelines again next season, contrary to published reports that list him among the frontrunners to take the reins of Indiana University’s program...
...Thirty-eight years later (note the symmetry), Utzon is back - if not in body, at least in spirit. In 1999, the elderly architect was invited by the Opera House Trust to pen a set of design principles for the ageing building. Three years later, Utzon was employed as principal architect in a $A69 million improvement plan, to be supervised by his son Jan, and Sydney-based Richard Johnson. His first completed interior, a $A4 million chamber-music and function hall, was unveiled in September. "It's inspirational to work with a genius," says architect Johnson. What better time, then...
...While Murphy hasn't met Utzon, 76, who lives as a virtual recluse on the Spanish island of Majorca, he knows the architect inside out. Having catalogued the Utzon archive at the State Library of New South Wales, in 1994 he co-curated an exhibition of Utzon's proposed interiors (as breathtaking as the exterior, the two halls were to echo waves of sound with the world's longest sheets of plywood). Ten years on, the cleverly executed and conceived "Studio of J?rn Utzon" succeeds in getting inside the architect's head. "The Opera House is really the embodiment...
...small studio north of Copenhagen, Utzon drew on film footage of Sydney and, being the son of a naval architect, consulted admiralty charts of the harbor; he was struck by the similarity of Bennelong Point to the nearby Helsing?r-Elsinore peninsula, where Shakespeare set Hamlet. What eventually crystallized in his drawings was a raised plateau and airborne structures not unlike sails. In his original plans, the podium would house the backstage business; upstairs, the public spectacle would unfurl. Utzon is often cast by his critics as a Hamlet-like figure, a daydreamer unable to carry out his plans. This exhibition...