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An angled wire mesh and glass facade is the defining feature-and point of contention-of the structure, designed by Austrian architect Hans Hollein, dean of the Vienna Academy of Arts and a recipient of the prestigious Pritzker Prize for architecture. His designs are known for fitting into the aesthetic...
"We hired Hans Hollein because we wanted a Hans Hollein building," he said. "We're reluctant to hold the architect's hand while he is putting pencil to paper."
Today Vermeer is acknowledged as one of the leading artists of the past 500 years. His influence extended to the Impressionists, Marcel Proust - and criminals. Many of his 35 works have been stolen (one, 'The Concert', is still missing), and in the 1930s and '40s a forger named Hans van...
"I want to be sure they are served to Mr. Milosevic," said Hans Holthuis, registrar of the Netherlands-based war crimes tribunal, before meeting Thursday with Serbian justice minister Vladan Batic in Belgrade. He later told the independent Beta news agency that "we had good talks," although Batic reportedly didn...
That's welcome news to the country's tourist industry. A study carried out at the University of Zurich shows that if temperatures rise by about 2?C over the next 50 years, as some experts predict, ski resorts below 1,500 m may not have enough snow to attract...