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It is nearly impossible to design convention centers that function efficiently yet satisfy the soul. They are workaday Gargantuas that tend to be overblown shows of engineering (the Moscone Center in San Francisco) or imposing fortresses (McCormick Place in Chicago). But New York City's Jacob K. Javits Convention Center...
Overlooking the Javits Center are the offices of Designers Massimo and Lella Vignelli. Too grand to be monastic and too spare to be imperial, the Vignelli headquarters could have been oppressive in their severity. They are redeemed by intriguing, humble materials -- particle board, panes of sandblasted translucent glass -- that add...
That reception did not prevent Javits from plunging ahead. During a typical session, he would serve on as many as five committees and nine subcommittees. Because of his minority-party status, his name was never attached to major legislation. However, he played a key role through the years on bills...
Javits' wife Marian decided early on that Washington was a Government "company town" and refused to live there, pursuing instead her interest in the arts in New York City. This arrangement led to an unconventional marriage, which Javits described as "two lives interacting and intersecting but not congruent." The discovery...
But the illness also displayed Javits at his most courageous as he adopted the plight of the terminally ill for his final cause. His mind sharp to the end, he turned up at meetings in his wheelchair, his head supported by a brace because his neck muscles had atrophied. "Life...