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...because federal regulators nixed certain accounting practices. As is typical with special-interest measures, there were no hearings or estimates of the cost before the clause mysteriously showed up in the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act of 1998. Among the potential beneficiaries: billionaires Ron Perelman and the Pritzker and Bass families. The losers: all other taxpayers, who will have to pick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How The Little Guy Gets Crunched | 2/7/2000 | See Source »

...Hollein received the Pritzker Prize, the highest honor attainable in the field of architecture...

Author: By Edric Lescouflair, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Renowned Architect to Design for Harvard | 11/3/1999 | See Source »

After designing acclaimed structures in Vienna, New York, Frankfurt and Lima, the Pritzker Prize winner will soon take his talent to yet another challenging environment--Cambridge...

Author: By Edric Lescouflair, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Renowned Architect to Design for Harvard | 11/3/1999 | See Source »

...monolithic monster is easy to traverse. Even more hairy is designing a high-rise--in the heart of Manhattan, no less--that is to be the U.S. headquarters for LVMH, the fashion, champagne and other image-heavy-goods conglomerate. Ugly just won't do. But Christian de Portzamparc, the Pritzker-prizewinning French architect, has created a tower with elan. His 23-story building has a kinky, faceted, overlapping-glass facade, like a whimsical piece of origami, which nevertheless abides by all the city's fiddly zoning laws. The mixture of transparent and opalescent glass and the etched patterns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fall Preview: The Art Of Autumn | 9/6/1999 | See Source »

Foster, like his former partner Richard Rogers (who has a peerage, but no Pritzker as yet), is a pivotal figure in British architecture. But his buildings have risen all over the world, from Germany to China, and at present his practice employs some 500 people. His influence on the profession is enormous. His 1985 tower for the Hongkong & Shanghai Bank headquarters in Hong Kong, for instance, reversed the general dogma that a high-rise office block had to have a solid central core: it is not a "block" but a frame, a vertical web whose generous, open ground level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Architecture: Norman Foster: Lifting The Spirit | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

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