Word: pediments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...symbolic attributes--a club for knowledge, a ball signifying the earth, a chakra or disc symbolizing power and a conch betokening water and the origins of existence--are the embodiment of serene control. Yet there is immense physical energy contained in some Khmer pieces, like the 10th century pediment from Banteay Srei, a marvel of crisp carving and design in which the epic hero Bhima is seen leaping into the air to strike down his enemy...
Disneyites occupy a zany new Neoclassical corporate headquarters that Graves designed in Burbank, Calif. (the Seven Dwarfs, each cast 19 ft. tall in concrete, support the pediment). In December the first guests checked into Stern's two ersatz-turn-of-the-century hotels at Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, outside Orlando. May marked the opening of the most interesting of the Disney architecture, an administration building in Lake Buena Vista by Arata Isozaki. And at Euro Disney outside Paris, where a $4.1 billion theme park and resort will open next spring, buildings designed by Graves, Stern, Frank Gehry...