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...October, a week apart, two new federal courthouses will open at opposite ends of the country. One sits in full view of the Atlantic Ocean in Islip, N.Y.; the other rises from the desert in Phoenix, Ariz. Both were designed by Richard Meier. There is perhaps no more appropriate building for Meier to design than a courthouse, a place where rules are enforced and and order is established. His adherence to Euclidean geometry and classical modernism begins to seem almost quixotic in an era absorbed in Gehryesque deformed surfaces and blobby forms. While both federal buildings have all the Meier...
...National Gallery in Berlin, or an elaborately "timeless" spatial event, like Louis Kahn's Kimbell Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. It is not an operatic signature building, like Frank Gehry's titanium-sheathed meganautilus in Bilbao, Spain. Still less is it a feat of conspicuously externalized luxury, like Richard Meier's Getty Center, poised in marble aloofness above Los Angeles...
...into Bilbao, provided backup curves in a Mariah Carey video and was featured in the most recent James Bond film. What this means is that Gehry has managed to be both intellectually respectable and popular, not just populist, a balancing act that makes his tilted towers look easy. Richard Meier is the great American architect whose stately modernist buildings, most of them in a white so ideal it could be used for the table settings at Plato's Symposium, are the very opposite of Gehry's Baroque tumblings. Yet even Meier is happy about the way Bilbao has made architecture...
...president by failing to broadcast his speech to the Russian legislature on TV. "It was extremely important to the surviving pro-Western elements in Russia's political elite that Clinton get a chance to make the case for liberalization to the Russian public," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "That didn't happen because his speech was never seen by the Russian people. There was an obvious chill in the air between Clinton and Putin at their final media conference - Clinton looked frustrated, exhausted and exasperated, and there was no warmth from Putin. The days of the cheery Boris...
...order to proceed with building the system according to the timetable he set himself, President Clinton would have to make the fateful decision on whether to scrap the ABM treaty at the height of the presidential race. "The Russians, on the other hand, have no reason to rush," says Meier. "They know Clinton only has a few months left and Bush has a good chance of winning. That means that even if they got a palatable deal out of Clinton, it would be unlikely to survive in Congress." Which is why Mr. Clinton will probably be looking...