Word: pelli
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...regional theaters in the U.S. And in the past two years, Minneapolis has abruptly emerged as a hotbed of high-profile architecture. The Minneapolis Institute of Arts has just added a stately new annex by Michael Graves. Last month the city opened a fascinating new public library by Cesar Pelli. Both of those came on the heels of Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron's intricate addition to the Walker Art Center. The $125 million building that Nouvel has delivered is actually three theaters: a thrust stage that seats 1,100, a proscenium house for 700 and a 200-seat...
...regional theaters in the U.S. And in the past two years, Minneapolis has abruptly emerged as a hotbed of high-profile architecture. The Minneapolis Institute of Arts has just added a stately new annex by Michael Graves. Last month the city opened a fascinating new public library by Cesar Pelli. Both of those came on the heels of Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron's intricate addition to the Walker Art Center. If Mary Tyler Moore were still throwing her hat in the air, it would be hard for her not to hit a major design statement...
...most controversial decisions Taniguchi made was to retain the famous amalgam of fa?ades along the museum's West 53rd Street side. The product of five separate building campaigns, the streetscape features successive fa?ades by Edward Durrell Stone and Philip Goodwin, Philip Johnson, and Cesar Pelli. Taniguchi argued to keep them intact?as a kind of history of modern architecture. This fueled early mumblings that the renovation was an opportunity lost, a glorified embalming rather than a genuine rebuilding. Dismissing such complaints, Taniguchi says: "Unlike many museums, MOMA faces a street, not an avenue, so even if I did something interesting...
...Downtown by Philippe Starck. Prices at the 326-unit conversion are a bit more accessible ($500,000 to $3.5 million), and the lap pool, basketball court, and yoga and Pilates studio should appeal to Wall Street traders looking to unwind. For uptowners, there's One Beacon Court, architect Cesar Pelli's 55-story tower, where a top-of-the-line penthouse reportedly goes for $26 million. Jacques Grange designed the interiors down to the bathroom hardware. Not a bad place to hang your hat. --BY KATE NOVACK
Their passion is modern art, and they donated $25,000 to the Menil Collection, one of the city's contemporary-art museums. They were accumulating edgy contemporary art--not just for themselves but also for Enron's new 40-story Cesar Pelli skyscraper. Lea took charge of the firm's art purchases, which included sculptures by Claes Oldenburg and Martin Puryear. The Fastows had plans to be big givers; they channeled $4.5 million, reaped from a $25,000 investment in one of his deals, to the Fastow Family Foundation...