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...soft-spoken New York architect who catapulted to international fame as the much hailed designer of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, above, in Washington; of complications of Parkinson's disease; in New York City. Freed, an émigré from Nazi Germany who became the longtime business partner of I.M. Pei, designed, among other things, Manhattan's sprawling Jacob K. Javits Convention Center and Washington's Ronald Reagan Building. Of the Holocaust Museum's hexagonal, skylighted Hall of Remembrance, he said, "Light is the only thing I know that heals. People at the camps said the sky was the only...
...What we had today, we could have had four years earlier.”But the long discussion process ultimately produced a center that is “a blending between the University and the community,” said the project’s principal architect, Pei Cobb Freed & Partners’ Henry N. Cobb ’47.While Harvard initially pegged the cost for CGIS at $30 million, the price tag swelled to $140 million as construction plans became more ambitious, according to Government Department Chair Nancy L. Rosenblum, who said she could not confirm the figure.David...
...Mall in Washington, which has heretofore been reserved for stone commemorations of American goodness (George Washington, Abraham Lincoln) and American tragedy (Vietnam). And it's hard to imagine a more successful job of it than that managed by architect Freed, a partner of I.M. Pei's. With its exhibits designed by Ralph Appelbaum, Freed's museum is neither a pious, too-easy-to-take abstraction nor a meretriciously Disneyesque Auschwitz-land; rather it is a craftsmanlike, thoughtful and powerfully disturbing hybrid of both, a ghastly but never wholly literal evocation of the camps as well as a sublime contemplation...
...walls of the John Hancock Tower. Harvard students won’t need to schlep into Boston anymore (not that we ever do) in order to see the work of architect Henry N. Cobb ’47, who in 1955 co-founded a now-famous firm with I.M. Pei. An award-winning former chairman of the Department of Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), Cobb has finally built something in his own backyard—literally. Taking up the grassy space behind and next to the GSD, the University’s new Center for Government...
...dinner Saturday evening. The swanky soiree for only 79 guests, certainly the hottest ticket in town, was a mixture of glitz and ritz, power and talent. The guests included Actors Clint Eastwood, Tom Selleck and John Travolta, Dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov (who was seated at Diana's right), Architect I.M. Pei, Explorer Jacques Cousteau, Artists Helen Frankenthaler and David Hockney, and Nancy's cat pack, Jerry Zipkin and Betsy Bloomingdale. The menu, in keeping with royal preferences, was light: lobster mousseline with Maryland crab followed by glazed chicken capsicum and a dessert of peach sorbet. The President and the Prince each...