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...resistant tuberculosis by a man flying on commercial flights to and from Europe earlier this month. So far, a handful of those travelers have contacted the CDC to undergo the first of two tests for the disease, and the patient himself was moved today to National Jewish Hospital in Denver, where he will receive treatment. (The hospital has successfully treated two other patients with similar strains in recent years...
...across the building's various façades and open views to several floors at once. Though the impulse to enter is irresistible, it may take a moment to find the door. In other words, like his Jewish Museum in Berlin and his recent addition to the Denver Art Museum, this is another Libeskind building sure to have people asking, "What's that about?" To which Libeskind says, "Fine." He designed the thing precisely to evoke that response. "This is not something that you know," he says. "It's a reinvention. It's not just business as usual...
Libeskind's addition to the Denver Art Museum, which opened last fall, won some rave reviews but also ran into criticism that its angular gallery spaces, with their diagonal walls - spaces not so different from his new ones at the ROM - were inhospitable to the art or even the public. To meet U.S. safety codes, the museum had to apply 7.5-cm-tall wooden markers ("courtesy curbs") on the floor in some galleries to prevent visitors from advancing into inward-sloping walls and bumping their heads. Christoph Heinrich, who will become the Denver museum's new curator of modern...
...great public buildings of the early 21st century - Frank Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, the Seattle Public Library by Rem Koolhaas, Libeskind's own addition to the Denver Art Museum - all speak in some variation of this irregular vocabulary. Twentieth century Modernism produced many great buildings, but by the 1970s it was a formula for mediocrity. Ever since, architects - and the rest of us - have been looking for a way out. And Libeskind has been showing one way. He may have produced some argumentative buildings, but they happen to be making the arguments that need...
Once you get inside, classical references are out, plunging diagonals are in. And though the gallery spaces are intricately conceived, they don't compete with the art, a complaint that's been raised against Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and Daniel Libeskind's addition to the Denver Art Museum. "I wanted a building that artists would appreciate," says Holl. So at eye level the galleries maintain their composure. It's overhead where he gets busier, playing with tilted ceilings and oversize curving alcoves that operate like cloud formations--meaning there's always something interesting going on up there...