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...East Building [May 8] is far too restrained. It's an achievement in land use, light play and mass as visceral as the pyramids. Thank God this country has a Cheops like Paul Mellon to allow us the esthetic bravado of the likes of I.M. Pei...
...structure has been rising next to the neoclassical bulk of the National Gallery in Washington: cool, prismatic, with the containment and elegant definition of a quartz crystal, a hand-rubbed object if ever there was one. It is the gallery's new East Building, designed by I.M. Pei. When it is finally opened to the public on June 1, it will take its place among the great museum buildings of the past hundred years. It is not an innovative or deliberately spectacular structure, as the still debated Centre Beaubourg in Paris turned out to be. Down to the last...
There are no fewer than 41 modern buildings, all designed by nationally and internationally famed architects. On Sundays, the citizens of Columbus worship in churches designed by Eero and Eliel Saarinen. They borrow books at a library built from the innovative plans of I.M. Pei and embellished with a bronze arch sculpted by Henry Moore. They shop in a glass-enclosed piazza designed by Cesar Pelli, and send their children to schools conceived by Architects Harry Weese, Eliot Noyes and John Warnecke. Along with the distinctive new structures, the spirit and pride of Columbus have risen as well. All over...
Even when the city's private developers build, they follow the same thinking. Recent additions to the largely residential Back Bay section include two fine works by Architects I.M. Pei & Partners. One is the much maligned John Hancock tower, most famous for its history of falling windowpanes (which have now been completely replaced by stronger glass at a cost of $7 million). The other is the Christian Science Center, which consists of starkly sculptural buildings grouped around Mary Baker Eddy's domed Beaux-Arts Mother Church. Both projects are especially noteworthy for their careful blending...
Rosovsky has made a couple of suggestions about the land. His first idea was to let Pei build his pyramid after all, entirely out of glass, and then move the Afro-American Department in. But that would cost too much. Now Henry says we ought to find some way to use the land to erase his deficit. I suggested an amusement park--I thought we could use the streetcar tracks for some of the rides, and get teaching fellows and grad students to sell tickets, manage the concession stands, etc.--but Henry said we'd just get into more trouble...