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DIED Though his renovation of the Guggenheim Museum in New York City drew mixed reviews, Modernist architect Charles Gwathmey, 71, counted among his fans Hollywood A listers like Jerry Seinfeld and Steven Spielberg, for whom he designed lavish homes...
Certainly, Schrager's too-cool-for-school hotels have been copied relentlessly. Starwood Hotels & Resorts hired architects such as Ricardo Bofill and Charles Gwathmey to design its flourishing W Hotels, a chain many felt was a direct rip-off of Schrager. Marriott's Ritz-Carlton has partnered with the Italian jewelry company Bulgari to create a string of boutique hotels...
...missed out on Meier's foray will have another shot at the comforts of home--walls of undulating glass, private bowling alleys, state-of-the-art everything. In addition to another Meier tower, three high-end condo projects are in the works. For his first apartment building, architect Charles Gwathmey is transforming a former parking lot in Greenwich Village into a 21-story tower, Astor Place (above). The building's multifaceted exterior is chiseled like a precious stone--befitting the multimillion-dollar lofts inside. Further south, just across the street from the New York Stock Exchange, the landmark Equitable Trust...
DIED. ROSALIE GWATHMEY, 92, photographer of Southern black life and mother of the architect Charles Gwathmey; in Amagansett, N.Y. In the 1940s, Gwathmey chronicled the communities around her hometown of Charlotte, N.C. In 1951 she and a group of her New York colleagues, including Dorothea Lange and Berenice Abbott, were deemed subversive, and in 1955, frustrated by the inhospitable atmosphere, she threw out her negatives and walked away from her craft. For the rest of her life, Gwathmey and the photographic community rarely celebrated her work, until a 1994 show revived interest in her photographs of everyday Southern life...
Condensation forming on both the interior and exterior walls in the Werner Otto Hall of the Busch-Reisinger Museum prompted the University to file a suit on December 12, 1996 against architects Gwathmey, Seigall and Associates and Walsh Brothers, Inc. Construction for renovations completed over six years...