Word: isozaki
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Designed by acclaimed Japanese architect Arata Isozaki, COSI is housed in a stark shell-like exterior that sits like a giant canoe across from downtown Columbus. Inside its purposely skewed interior walls (variously aligned to three different versions of north: true, magnetic and the local street grid's) are seven thematic areas called Learning Worlds. Within each, visitors are free to immerse themselves in scientific concepts that range from basic physics to advanced medicine. "One of the problems with all science centers is the 'Ping-Pong-ball effect,'" says Joseph Wisne, COSI's vice president for design and production. "Visitors...
...first place, and followers of middle roads are usually middling talents. Fumihiko Maki is that rare designer whose buildings are decorous but also fetchingly strange, a little dreamlike. His rather subtle work has never got as much press as has the work of his more voguish Japanese peers Arata Isozaki and Tadao Ando (whose buildings are, respectively, Tokyo-by-way-of- Holl ywood lollapaloozas and ascetic Zen bunkers), but now that inequity seems moot: this week Maki was to be named the winner of the 1993 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the field's de facto Nobel...
...city, from its infrastructure -- sewers, ring roads -- to the restoration of its huge deposit of historic buildings, most of which had decayed badly during the Franco years, through to new works such as the refurbished waterfront, the Olympic Village and the magnificent covered stadium on Montjuic by Arata Isozaki...
...Winter Games, in any case, have always been the Cinderella Games, the odd Games out; a poor sister, it sometimes seems, to the sun-splashed dazzle of the Summer Games. Barcelona this year has Gaudi, Miro, Isozaki; Albertville has mostly an industrial town that sounds as if it were named after the Crown Prince of Monaco (a member of the Monegasque bobsled team). The Winter Games are chill, Nordic, taciturn -- redolent of Ingmar Bergman and dark Decembers. Instead of sprints and dives, they offer double Axels (not what you find on the bottom of your Peugeot) and luges (which...
...thirds, even though critics charge that a new, 10- story annex designed by Gwathmey & Siegel detracts from the Wright building's architecture. At the same time, the Guggenheim will unveil a fully funded $5.5 million exhibition and office space in New York's SoHo district, designed by Arata Isozaki. To help pay for the flagship expansion -- and additional storage facilities -- the Guggenheim floated $54.9 million in tax- exempt bonds in 1989. Other museums issue bonds to finance projects, but typically use their endowments as collateral. The Guggenheim has an endowment of only $30 million and its loans are secured with...