Word: hollein
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...Charles Eames is still famous mainly for his chairs, and the best-known works of today's European café-society designers--Philippe Starck, Enzo Mari--are chairs. Aalto, Breuer and Mies made their marks in the '20s partly by making chairs, and such contemporary architects as Gehry, Meier, Graves, Hollein, Venturi and Ambasz have all felt obliged to design chairs as well as buildings...
...swathe across her eyes. Maria de Corral, who is curating the show when it moves to Madrid in June, called it "a kind of antiportrait." What unifies the show is the sheer size of the pictures. "The dimension is an integral part of this art," says Schirn director Max Hollein, who curated the Frankfurt show. "The scale gives the pictures a tremendous physicality. It turns them into almost sculpted objects...
...original plan, developed in spring 2001 by architect Hans Hollein, was rejected by the CHC, which objected to the proposed structure’s size, shape and what the CHC’s director said was its stylistic incongruence with nearby buildings...
...project had initially come under attack from Cambridge residents both for its architecture and for replacing retail space. The original design, by famous architect Hans Hollein, was rejected by the Cambridge Historical Commission in April 2001. The new design, by Boston firm Leers Weinzapfel Associates, “fits the space much better,” Verba said...
...Muses, a former Habsburg ballroom, has breathtaking newly restored sculptures of Apollo and the Nine Muses. Some of Europe's most acclaimed architects and designers took part in the Albertina reconstruction. To use the palace's original main entrance atop the bastion, 11 m above street level, Austrian Hans Hollein's design incorporated an elevator and escalator to carry an expected 500,000 visitors annually to the top, and a huge titanium wing-shaped roof projecting from behind the famous equestrian statue of Archduke Albrecht out over the street below. Although not yet in place, the wing will provide...