Word: architects
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year, OPRAH WINFREY, the greatest force in television, has practically saved the alphabet. It's simple. Oprah selects a title for the book-discussion club she launched on her show last fall. Then everyone in America buys it. This gives her the market clout of a Pentagon procurement officer. Architect FRANK GEHRY saw a long struggle culminate in a huge achievement. His $100 million Guggenheim Museum is scheduled to open later this year in Bilbao, Spain...
TONI BRAXTON may not have been born with a lanky model's frame, but she's never been shy about showing off all of her 5 ft. 2 in. "Midriffs," the Grammy-winning singer once explained helpfully, "make me look taller." She found in designer Marc Bouwer the perfect architect of her no-foundation-garments- necessary look. Bouwer describes his style as "athletic glamour" and uses lots of Lycra and other stretch fabrics in his evening wear. At this week's fashion shows in New York, the relatively unknown Bouwer has scored a coup by persuading the singer, whom...
...However, architect Camille Victor had a different experience...
...serious inquiries about the old theaters, one came from a mud-wrestling entrepreneur, another from Michael Eisner. Disney's chairman became interested in owning a theater in New York because the company's theatrical version of Beauty and the Beast was imminent on Broadway. As it happens, the architect Robert A.M. Stern, who had devised post-Johnson-Burgee guidelines for 42nd Street, is a member of Disney's board. Stern told Eisner about the New Amsterdam. On a grim winter day, Stern and Cora Cahan took Eisner, his wife and son on a tour of the theater, shuttered since...
Today water no longer pours through the New Amsterdam's ceiling dome, once again surrounded by a thick garland of red berries and hydrangea wreaths, blue-glazed peacocks and 10-ft.-long angels. The work involved many subtle calibrations. The architect, Hugh Hardy, aimed for a final product that would return the theater to its original state yet allow it to look as if it had been gently lived in for 30 years or so. "There is," he observes, "an inherent conflict in preservation between conservation, which means you keep everything that's original and try not to have...