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When the MBTA announced nearly two years ago that it was finally ready to move its subway cars to a new facility. I.M. Pei unveiled his design for the memorial complex. He planned a semi-circular building that would be capped off by an eight-story glass pavillion in the center. Pei said the "pearl in the oyster," which would have a huge American flag hanging from its ceiling and hold a bust of Kennedy, would be a fitting memorial to the president...
Architect I.M. Pei last June unveiled his design for a scaled-down library and museum facing the Charles River
...Pei, architect of Boston's John Hancock Building, submits a new design for the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library, without windows. The Environmental Protection Agency takes it under advisement, but Stephen S.J. Hall files a protest. "We already ordered nine-track windows," Hall quips. "Now I'll have to lay off all the window-washers." In a hastily called press conference Bok tells Hall to "shut...
...uncharacteristic and rather clammy eroticism. In this claustrophobic reverie, Gimpei Momoi, a 34-year-old schoolteacher, a dim cousin of Nabokov's Humbert Humbert, disconsolately follows women, or schoolgirls, through the streets. Filled with a "masochistic self-disgust" that has its origins in his own deformed feet, Gim pei (which might almost be some accidental translingual pun - "Momoi the Gimp") is another of literature's repellent voyeurs - a wincing, hypersensitive defective on the sad trail of in effable beauty...
...Although Pei has not drawn up a design for the building, he and Harvard officials have agreed upon an outline which calls for the construction of a six-story brick building in the northeast corner of the site. The structure will have a narrow rectangular shape, measuring 380 by 50 feet and will contain 160,000 sq. feet of floor space...