Word: clore
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...undoubted recent success is James Stirling's multicolored Clore Gallery, a wing of the Tate Gallery, which opened earlier this year as the repository of the Tate's nonpareil J.M.W. Turner collection. Stirling created a well- proportioned and handsome set of viewing rooms with a crisply formal yet amusing exterior, highlighted by a cutaway pediment entrance. As for the National Gallery, after several abortive efforts, including the "carbuncle" debacle, it has settled for restraint: a safe, classically modern stone-faced design by American Architect Robert Venturi for its much needed $63 million extension...
Buildings like the Clore Gallery and Venturi's addition, which contrast but do not clash with their neighbors, are hopeful auguries for the London skyline. This may be the computer age, but, as Prince Charles says, why do people have to be surrounded by "buildings that look like such machines?" The answer, as Londoners may be starting to realize, is that they...