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First, Baltimore literally disemboweled itself, clawing out 33 downtown acres to make way for Charles Center, a high-rise office development fronting on the city's main north-south thoroughfare. Next, moving harborward, came I.M. Pei's 28-story World Trade Center. It was accompanied by a long-needed Convention Center and the Maryland Science Center, where visitors are encouraged to touch exhibits, push buttons, pull levers and turn wheels. Also on the waterfront, a music tent called the Outdoor Concert...
...Pei's glass and steel machine ascended slowly to the second level, and on its polished chrome steps, it carried the Colonel...
...cooing at the new building. The models stood perfectly still in the foyers. The building was extraordinarily hospitable, even to a crowd such as this. It made no judgements. Even if you can't believe in God, you could do worse than to put your faith in I.M. Pei. He builds friendly, inspiring places for stockholders and streetcleaners alike...
...Chinese bronzes had changed their young lives so as not to appear boorish. The Driver told someone at the buffet that only cars and art made life worth living, and on the whole he thought that art was probably easier to take care of. As the sun set over Pei's masterpiece, they walked out to the car in the company of a young couple from Brookline all maligned Pissarro, though none of them had ever held a brush. When they got to the car there was a notice on it that said the convertible was being converted...
...created the simple steel and cane Cesca chair, which, like the Wassily, remains a ubiquitous furnishing today. Breuer came to the U.S. in 1937 to teach at Harvard's Graduate School of Design, where his students included Edward Larrabee Barnes, Ulrich Franzen, Paul Rudolph and I.M. Pei. A leading fig ure in the International style of architecture, Breuer designed such distinguished buildings as the IBM Research Center in La Gaude, France, the St. John's Abbey in Collegeville, Minn., and the Whitney Museum in New York City. "Buildings should not be moody, but reflect a general, durable quality...