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During construction, incredulous that an adequate building could be pasted on the unlovely backside of the Fogg, we watched Gwathmey's sleek, even glib, three-story pastiche of high-tech and nostalgia emerge. We were grateful for its glancing homage to LeCorbusier and relieved, perhaps, that it was less bloodless than the original drawings...
...Florida fiefdom. Eisner's vision is a mixture of the predictable ("the biggest mall in Florida"), the high-minded ("I've been obsessed with creating a new chautauqua") and the intriguingly original ("We want to build workplaces, pilot factories"). He has already rejected schemes by Stern and Gwathmey Siegel. A design competition going on among Helmut Jahn, Charles Moore, Aldo Rossi and the firms Arquitectonica, Morphosis and Kohn Pedersen Fox has so far produced accepted designs by Jahn, Moore and Rossi. Trying to realize this biggest dream has been "a nightmare," Eisner says. He doesn't know exactly what...
...known Boston firm. Goody Clancy and Associates Inc.--which has designed other Harvard projects in the past, such as the Center for European Studies and the Law School's Austin Hall--planned the DeWolfe St. project. Werner Otto Hall is the product of the award-winning New York firm Gwathmey Siegel and Associates, which designed the recent addition to the Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan...
...Gwathmey has said the new building was initially commissioned for $6 million, but Fogg Art Museum Director of Public Relations Peter Walsh said the success of the fundraising drive led the University to increase the scope of the project. Walsh added that the original plans called for a two-story building, but the new wing will now have two-and-a-half stories...
Harvard hired Gwathmey's firm to design plans for the Busch-Reisinger--which has a collection of Central and Northern European art--last year. The New-York based firm has worked previously at other universities and designed a proposed wing for the Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan