Word: chapel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jordan it always mattered--playing good defense, he was taught at Chapel Hill, was what won close games, and what he always hungered for was championships, not individual honors. Early on in his professional career, he mentioned casually to reporters that he hoped one day to be named defensive player of the year as well as MVP. A young writer named Jan Hubbard, then with the Dallas Morning News, wrote at the time that it could not be done, that it took too much additional energy to be that kind of defensive star and that no one would have enough...
...though not as massive as St. Peter's, this church seats a huge congregation, boasts a thunderous organ and requires an elevator to reach its chapel...
Sleep, vegetative unconsciousness, surrender of the will--Burne-Jones' art was largely about passivity, and his knights look a tad sluggish even when they are skewering dragons. He idolized Michelangelo--the year 1871 found Burne-Jones flat on his back on a traveling rug in the Sistine Chapel, minutely scrutinizing the ceiling with opera glasses--and comatose versions of the Slaves and Captives abound in his work. The dream-suffused character of the art of Burne-Jones won him a following on the other side of the Channel by connecting him to painters in the stream of French and Belgian...
...brick and fieldstone and splashes of bright color. He discovered the potential of reinforced concrete and made it his own, leaving the material crudely unfinished, inside and out, the marks of wooden formwork plainly visible. Concrete allowed Le Corbusier to explore unusual shapes. The billowing roof of the chapel at Ronchamp, France, resembles a nun's wimple; the studios of the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts at Harvard push out of the building like huge cellos. For the state capital of Chandigarh in India, he created a temple precinct of heroic structures that appear prehistoric...
...works of architectural merit and structural solidity have been destroyed in the name of war or progress (witness New York City's Pennsylvania Station). Some buildings, it seems, put down foundations in the psyche of their location; they may grow old but will never become dated. Le Corbusier's chapel at Ronchamp is a certain survivor. Here are five others likely to outlive us all. --By Belinda Luscombe...