Word: architects
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...grungy pair of jeans, Reznor blends in so easily with the bohemian types streaming past him on a Greenwich Village sidewalk that it's easy to forget he is the auteur behind one of the landmark albums of the decade, 1994's The Downward Spiral, as well as an architect of the dark offshoot of heavy metal and punk called industrial rock. His themes of alienation and distress have influenced artists from Marilyn Manson to Oliver Stone. This week Reznor is making a return with a challenging new album, The Fragile (Nothing/Interscope), a work that rock fans are awaiting...
DIED. HERBERT STEIN, 83, economist and former Nixon adviser; in Washington. Stein, a chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, was a key architect of Nixon's policies, including battling inflation through wage controls. But he eschewed ideological loyalty in favor of common sense and was critical of policies of Reagan and Bush...
...with photography. The camera craves beauty; buildings crave an eye. And photographer Ezra Stoller's eye is among the best. The charm of his new series of books is that each volume carefully documents a building--e.g., Eero Saarinen's TWA terminal at N.Y.C.'s Kennedy Airport--as the architect wanted it, before remodeling or damage. Beauty and history...
...easy to traverse. Even more hairy is designing a high-rise--in the heart of Manhattan, no less--that is to be the U.S. headquarters for LVMH, the fashion, champagne and other image-heavy-goods conglomerate. Ugly just won't do. But Christian de Portzamparc, the Pritzker-prizewinning French architect, has created a tower with elan. His 23-story building has a kinky, faceted, overlapping-glass facade, like a whimsical piece of origami, which nevertheless abides by all the city's fiddly zoning laws. The mixture of transparent and opalescent glass and the etched patterns on the windows enhance...
Call it commodity chic. Marketers of watches and desk chairs, lawn sets and household tools are courting the world's top artists in a bid to make design a critical selling point. Like Graves, architect Philippe Starck is busy putting his mark of conceptual brilliance on a lineup of bathroom fixtures, from sinks to urinals, for the German company Duravit. And designer Marc Newson, 35, has done kitchen accessories for Italy's upscale Alessi, a bicycle for Denmark's Biomega, and the bar at Andre Balazs' new Standard Hotel in Los Angeles--in addition to a car for Ford...