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Moreover, pressures are mounting to quicken the pace of nation-building??but they are not consistent with ensuring a reliable and lasting result. The Security Council, our allies and the Iraqis themselves are producing a cacophony of demands to turn over authority in both the military and civilian arenas to the U.N. and to the Iraqis in various competing configurations. It is ironic that while the U.S. is correctly resisting this particular ‘hurry-up’ trend—rightly arguing that the legitimacy and capacity of the Iraqis needs more time to be developed?...
...major commission was Spain’s pavilion at the 1937 International Exposition in Paris. “As the product of a nation at war with itself it is a miracle,” the Carpenter Center display quotes one publication as saying at the time of the building??s inauguration. As a piece of architecture, it was a mild success. At the end of the Exposition, Sert’s design would largely go forgotten, its fame overshadowed by the mural it housed—Picasso’s famous “Guernica...
While not every resident of One Western Avenue enjoys its spectacular river views, each and every resident, and every innocent passerby for that matter, is subjected to the building??s exterior. Flat and Spartan, the building??s face is decorated only by different sized windows in a seemingly random pattern and bricks of varying color and texture. Residents tended to outdo the critics in their creative assessments of the building, some commenting that it resembles “a hospital,” “a prison,” “a psychiatric...
Architect Rafael Moneo said the pedestrian walkway would create a “gate-like building?? that would invite people into the courtyard...
...Center so special as an intellectual hub will be a combination of features—from the latest technological and multimedia capabilities to new offices and conference areas to the restoration of great historical spaces such as the Reading Room—that will preserve and strengthen this important building??s world-class collections and superb library and research services. When the facility is ready for occupancy in late 2005, it will fulfill the goal of fostering collaboration, interaction, and integration among faculty, staff, students, alumni and outside scholars...