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Over the past decade or so, Piano has become one of the most sought-after architects in the U.S., especially for museum commissions. In Houston, Atlanta, New York City, San Francisco and Fort Worth, Texas, museum trustees have gone to Piano for buildings that are serene, lucid and elegantly detailed. His designs may not push the envelope, but they seal it with a kiss. His best buildings have a delicacy inseparable from their tensile power. As Piano likes to say, "Beauty is not romantic. Beauty is very strong." Put in those terms, it would be fair to say that...
...Piano's buildings are filled with light - a delicate issue for museums, which have to protect paintings from direct sun but crave the atmosphere that only natural daylight can provide. In the mid-1980s he developed an ingenious louvered roof to filter powdery sunlight into the Menil Collection in Houston. Ever since, every museum that's hired him has been looking for its own version of the Piano roof...
...second and third floors. On the right, temporary exhibition galleries occupy the first floor, with design and architecture above them, and on the third floor, a restaurant and that sculpture terrace. The dimensions of this atrium are pretty compelling. The long aisle just about siphons you into the museum. But the high expanses of bare white wall, a Modernist fetish, are a little bland. You wonder what might have been done in this space by Herzog and de Meuron, the designers of the Olympic Stadium in Beijing, who don't mind jolting their surfaces...
...could bash out a 700-word column in five minutes flat--and Patricia's inheritance made them more than well off, and the action leaps nimbly from the family's teak-and-mahogany yacht to its 10th century Swiss château to Patricia's memorial service at the Metropolitan Museum's Temple of Dendur...
Salute. To commemorate the 65th anniversary of D-Day, the National World War II Museum in New Orleans is sponsoring a Victory in Europe tour to Normandy, led by the museum curators and veterans, who share first-hand stories and serve as guides. On the tour, you'll visit London, Normandy and Paris, and highlights include dinner with Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, the son of Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery. The package is priced per person at $5,550 double-occupancy; the single supplement is $1,150. If you can't get to Normandy, the Nola museum is also running...