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...Splendors, local architect Louis Pounders recreated a sultan's palace, complete with the asymmetric arrangement of rooms one would find in a structure completed over several generations. "There is a sense of mystery about ((Turkish)) architecture," says Pounders. "I tried to breathe that into the design." Banded arches spring from Islamic columns, windows are scrimmed with haremesque screens, walls are painted to resemble the colorful Iznik tiles renowned throughout the former empire...
...stupid architect who designed thebuilding," said student James Armstrong. "Peopledon't even talk that loud, but you can heareverything...
...architect has already designed the new division, which would fill the reading space on Lamont's first floor. If it is approved, the project will probably cost between $400,000 and $500,000, De Gennaro said...
...billion worth of highways and other public works. No longer did Spaniards have to emigrate north for jobs: their income rose to 79% of the E.C. median. Culturally, Spain became fashionable: the campy fantasies of filmmaker Pedro Almodovar; the sunswept abstractions of painter Miguel Barcelo; the postmodern extravaganzas of architect Ricardo Bofill; the prankish sexiness of fashion designer Sybilla. Madrid promoted itself as the eye of a creative tornado known as la movida, whirling all night long. Novelist Camilo Jose Cela won the 1989 Nobel Prize for Literature. "In the 1960s, we felt like second-class Europeans," says Juan Sanchez...
...this reduced age, people are discombobulated by the prospect of fussing with a masterwork such as the Guggenheim. It is, after all, the greatest American architect's best-known building. And yet the Guggenheim's very singularity has always made it a wretched place to show pictures: the narrow ramp that hugs the inside wall has been the museum's main exhibition space...