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...visionary scheme that could be Tung's greatest contribution to a city often derided as a cultural desert: an arts center to be built on 40 weedy hectares of reclaimed harborfront land. First introduced in Tung's 1999 policy address, and later refined with a master plan by British architect Norman Foster, the West Kowloon Cultural District is slated to include at least four museums, four performance venues, art schools, galleries and studios, all housed under a swooping, transparent canopy. The district is to be built without any outlay from the public purse. It's the kind of project...
...Tung administration dismisses all this as unproductive grousing. "The city has become highly politicized," says Au King-chi, the Deputy Secretary of Planning and Lands who is shepherding the project. "People are using this as a stick with which to beat the government," complains a senior in-house architect with one of the three candidates. One frustrated property tycoon, Ronnie Chan, even warned that the city "has become the most communist place in China." Les Robertson, the structural engineer for New York's World Trade Center and Hong Kong's Bank of China Tower, has signed on with Henderson. Reminiscing...
Last June, Harvard announced it had hired the planning and design firm Cooper, Robertson to create a master plan for the Allston campus, working with a team that will include architect Frank O. Gehry and incorporating the goals outlined in the community task force report. The campus will be centered around science, professional schools and undergraduate housing...
Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, the chief architect of Pope John Paul II's traditionalist moral policy, has long been a bugaboo for liberal Catholics. But they had stopped worrying that the German might one day ascend to St. Peter's throne. His hard-line views and blunt approach had earned him the epithet of panzerkardinal and too many enemies. Well, their worrying may now resume. Sources in Rome tell TIME that Ratzinger has re-emerged as the top papal candidate within the Vatican hierarchy, joining other front runners such as Dionigi Tettamanzi of Milan and Claudio Hummes of S??o Paolo...
...worked eight months on this, two shifts per day, 3,000 workers ... and it is all gone in five minutes." EKASAK THONGTHASAWES, architect and builder of the Sofitel Magic Lagoon in Khao Lak, Thailand...