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Here's the best evidence I know of that the past 10 years have witnessed a revolution in architecture. Diller and Scofidio are getting work. For decades the husband-and-wife designer team of Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio was known mostly--make that entirely--as architectural theorists, deadpan funny conceptual artists and intellectual bomb throwers. In all those roles, they made a name for themselves by questioning the most basic premises of architecture. It would be hard to imagine, for instance, a more thorough rethinking of what makes a building than a project they completed for the Swiss Expo...
Although the Blur Building was both a crowd pleaser and an ingenious intellectual conundrum--just how many elements can you subtract from a building and still have it feel like a place?--working with fog did nothing to contradict Diller and Scofidio's image as thinkers in no hurry to operate with more solid materials. So it's a sign of significant clients' openness to new ideas that the pair have somehow joined the ranks of sought-after, real-world architects, the kind who work with poured concrete and get major commissions. In the past few years their firm, Diller...
MARIANO RUBINACCI is as synonymous with his hometown of Naples as are Marinella ties and Margherita pizza. The only difference is that Rubinacci makes bespoke suits, not pies. His claim to fame, as clients like Jacob Rothschild, Luca Cordero di Montezemolo and Barry Diller will tell you, is the loose-fitting, high-armhole Neapolitan jacket. He also makes bespoke shoes, shirts and vicuņa coats...
...Most Lavish Home-Shopping Spree The QVC network's $10.5 billion bid to buy Paramount Communications. Paramount had hoped to merge with TV conglomerate Viacom. But QVC's Barry Diller, who can build grudges into empires, vowed to take over his old studio by wooing or warring. The courts, and finally Paramount's board, agreed to give him the chance...
...PHYLLIS DILLER...