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Most of us think of Le Corbusier as an architect, renown for such prominent and ground-breaking edifices as Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamp, France and the Carpenter Center at Harvard. But now through December we have the valuable opportunity to view a selection of his two-dimensional work, housed in the building which he designed...
...phony transactions with Silverado. After this sale, M.D.C. shares fell from $22 to below $1 for a time. Many M.D.C. officers and board members, including Brownstein, mysteriously managed to sell much of their personal M.D.C. stock at its peak price. The lawsuits also contend that Milken was the architect of a scheme in which M.D.C. sold junk bonds to San Diego's Imperial S&L, which eventually produced huge losses for the California thrift...
...feat is all the more salutary given the building's horribly overbuilt location: just 25 ft. east stands Metropolitan Tower, a grim, 66-story black glass trapezoid finished in 1986 (only the two-story Russian Tea Room separates the two buildings), and less than a block south is architect Helmut Jahn's new 70-story Cityspire. Yet instead of adding to the high-rise pile-on, Carnegie Hall Tower improves the neighborhood and the skyline -- in part by visually eclipsing Metropolitan Tower -- and proves that grandeur need not equal bulk. Pelli's apartment-and-office tower is a full block...
...unusual difficulties Pelli faced -- squeezed site, Carnegie Hall as partner and next-door neighbor -- are what have made the new tower so special and grand. "Constraints," the architect says, "are not necessarily negative. They force you to try avenues you would have ignored." Contextualism has been the urban-design buzz word of the past decade, but no architect has done a better job of fitting a big building into such an important, tightly woven urban fabric. The 535,000-sq.-ft. tower is technically an addition to Carnegie Hall and takes important aesthetic cues from...
Renowned for some of the worthiest large buildings of the past few years, the architect has finished his best work yet: Carnegie Hall Tower. In horribly overbuilt midtown Manhattan, the 60-story masterpiece is a dancer among thugs. Says Pelli: "You can use modern technology but still give that richness of feeling...