Word: architects
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Like Arafat, Peres's own political position is in large part dependent on the survival of some kind of peace process, too. As an architect of Oslo, he too wants to maintain his place in history as a leader who won security for Israel at the negotiating table. And like Arafat, the absence of a peace process leaves him threatened with political extinction. Arafat and Peres shared the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize for their Oslo effort. But even if a new breakthrough were possible, right now, neither man appears to have the freedom of maneuver to choreograph...
...would be safe to say that Rem Koolhaas is the only renowned architect who also once wrote a screenplay for Russ Meyer, the director of Mondo Topless. But the Dutch architect's immersion in mass culture is part of what made him just the man to design the two latest additions to the Guggenheim Museum's global museum line, opening on Oct. 7. That's because both will be located at the Venetian hotel and casino in Las Vegas...
...Pastor, 42, figures that it takes about four years to learn how to make a forcola, and about 25 to learn it well. In addition to their very practical use on boats, the elbow-shaped forcole are classy wooden sculptures and Pastor has both Mick Jagger and architect I.M. Pei among his clients. He says the crisis in gondola making is only part of a larger problem. "There are other kinds of boats that people don't even know how to make anymore," he says, referring to craft like the peata and the batea con la coda di gambero (boat...
...While a bottom-up "unity government" begins to take shape on the Palestinian street, Sharon's own unity government is showing a few signs of strain. Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, architect of the Oslo Accord, criticized last week's seizure of Orient House as a tactical mistake - and it's easy to see why. The move brought fierce international criticism, even from Washington, and turned the focus of the international community away from the suicide bombing. It also painted Sharon into a corner: Because Orient House had no official status in Israeli-Palestinian agreements, it will be politically difficult...
DIED. MARTIN STERN JR., 84, architect who created the funky, quasi-futuristic Ships coffee shops in Los Angeles that exemplified the so-called Googie style popular in the 1950s and '60s; in Los Angeles. Despite heavy protest from preservationists, one of the three coffee shops was razed in 1984. Stern also played a key role in redefining the Las Vegas skyline; amid the low-slung hotels that pioneered the Strip, he built the 26-story Mint Hotel and the towering MGM Grand...