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...Francisco and had to refinance debt. Last year he left his company, Morgans Hotel Group. Since then, he and his partner, developer Aby Rosen, have been involved in several deals in New York City, including 40 Bond, a condo in NoHo being designed by white-hot architects Herzog & de Meuron, and the Metropolitan Life building...
...emerged as a hotbed of high-profile architecture. The Minneapolis Institute of Arts has just added a stately new annex by Michael Graves. Last month the city opened a fascinating new public library by Cesar Pelli. Both of those came on the heels of Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron's intricate addition to the Walker Art Center. The $125 million building that Nouvel has delivered is actually three theaters: a thrust stage that seats 1,100, a proscenium house for 700 and a 200-seat "studio" for new plays. The new Guthrie, which also has its own restaurants...
...emerged as a hotbed of high-profile architecture. The Minneapolis Institute of Arts has just added a stately new annex by Michael Graves. Last month the city opened a fascinating new public library by Cesar Pelli. Both of those came on the heels of Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron's intricate addition to the Walker Art Center. If Mary Tyler Moore were still throwing her hat in the air, it would be hard for her not to hit a major design statement...
Speaking of we, how exactly do you collaborate on a creation as original as this? It probably helps that Herzog and de Meuron, both 54, have known each other and liked many of the same things since they were 7. They pursued separate paths in college, then veered back to architecture and established their firm in 1978. When they first gained notice, it was as dedicated architectural Minimalists, expelling every trace of excess from elegant boxes. In no time, though, they were lured to the problem of how to make those boxes hold the eye as well as the mind...
Four years ago, when they won the Pritzker Prize, architecture's most prestigious award, Herzog and de Meuron were best known for the Tate Modern in London, a refurbished power plant with its turbine hall preserved as a massive art-display space. By that time, from their home base in Basel, they were conquering the world. The past few years have seen the completion in Tokyo of a much discussed Prada store, with its honeycomb steel surfaces set with bulging lenses of glass; a major addition to the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minn.; and a soccer stadium in Munich...