Word: libeskind
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...been called a "maverick" by fellow architect Peter Cook, someone who "attempts to dart across all the carefully documented niceties of task, place and space." Design fans will soon have two opportunities to view the striking, often controversial work of Polish-born architect Daniel Libeskind...
...Jewish Museum of Berlin, a shiny metal structure with zigzagging crevices on the façade that resemble a broken Star of David, opens with its permanent collection on Sept. 9. Meanwhile, starting June 17 in London's Hyde Park, Libeskind's shrunken, horizontal version of his proposed Spiral extension to the Victoria and Albert Museum will serve as a temporary café and lecture space adjoining the Serpentine Gallery...
...designing the Jewish Museum, Libeskind's biggest challenge was melding the old and the new, not just physically (the museum is an extension of an elaborate 18th century Baroque structure), but also psychologically. Says Libeskind: "I thought one had to confront the issues of continuity, tradition and the New Berlin - what happened and what can happen in the future...
...watershed, an instant icon that was featured in the latest James Bond movie and has mayors everywhere clamoring for their own "Bilbao." As a consequence, any number of designs that once seemed too radical to imagine, much less assemble, are being readied for construction. One of them is Daniel Libeskind's tumbling addition to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, which looks like a cross between a building and an avalanche. Another is the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati by the Iranian-born, diagonally inclined British architect Zaha Hadid. Several of the most spectacular works in progress...