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...planning stages are a glass and wire office building on Mt. Auburn Street designed by Viennese architect Hans Hollein and, and a contemporary art gallery on Memorial Drive designed by Renzo Piano, who was responsible for Paris' Georges Pompidou Centre. Both men are recipients of the prestigious Pritzker Prize for architecture...
Since the creation of the Pompidou, Piano has been known for understatement and for creating buildings modern buildings that blend with their surroundings...
...world's foremost architects and the man responsible for the planned revamping of the Harvard University Art Museums, spoke to a packed Piper Auditorium last Thursday. Famous for his work in such major spaces as Houston's Menil Collection, Osaka's Kansai Airport and Paris's Centre Georges Pompidou, Piano's speech attracted so large a crowd that not only was the auditorium packed, but even the secondary broadcast room was standing-room only. People had to be turned away in droves. Perhaps the situation called for an architect...
...rising on wooden struts, bisected by restaurant and exhibition space and crowned by a floral halo of metallic petals. At 650 ft.--a height that will require passage of a special law in parliament--it would command stunning vistas comparable to those of the Eiffel and Montparnasse. Meanwhile, the Pompidou Center, with one of the biggest collections of 20th century paintings, is scheduled to reopen its doors at midnight Jan. 1, 2000, after being partly closed since September 1997 for a complete renovation. The theme of the featured exhibit: time...
...served as president of the University ofParis I from 1976 to 1981. She was chancellor ofthe Universities of Paris in 1982. Ahrweiler waspresident of the Georges Pompidou National Centerof Art and Culture from...