Word: copley
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...original dispute concerning the Hancock Tower was the size of the building itself. As soon as Pei announced the project in 1967, community and architectural leaders swooped down upon the plan and condemned it as 1.6 million square feet of blight on the serene and intimate Copley Square...
...architects, Pei and his general partner Henry Cobb, his chief designer for the Hancock project. The architect group urged that the Boston Board of Appeals deny Hancock's petition for zoning variance until the insurance firm could come up with a "modified" plan better suited for the character of Copley Square. The BSA feared that the building would interrupt the serene pattern of the neighboring Trinity Church and the Florentine Boston Public Library...
...contrary to what the BSA had previously suggested, it was Pei and Partners which, driven by a competitive urge, wanted the building so huge as to risk zoning violations and Copley Square residents' protests...
...that when the soaring Prudential building was erected several blocks away from the Hancock site in 1967, the architectural "form" of the area was already destroyed. "Besides it wasn't a great space, like, say, the Place Vendome," Pei said. "Let's forget about the past as far as Copley Square is concerned and try to make a 20th-century space. We know it can be done. Look at Rockefeller Center...
...explain how an artist, by manipulating one of these three elements, could create the illusion of space or light, could create a mode in his work that is linear, sculptural, pictorial or visual. The exhibit uses familiar works from the Fogg's collection-works by Picasso, Matisse, Renoir, Copley and Tiepolo-as examples of these modes. The idea is grand, but a grand result never materializes. The exhibit is not organized with the idea that someone who knows nothing about color might want to explore it. That jargon is obscure and not explained is one example of this; another...