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Four years ago, when they won the Pritzker Prize, architecture's most prestigious award, Herzog and de Meuron were best known for the Tate Modern in London, a refurbished power plant with its turbine hall preserved as a massive art-display space. By that time, from their home base in Basel, they were conquering the world. The past few years have seen the completion in Tokyo of a much discussed Prada store, with its honeycomb steel surfaces set with bulging lenses of glass; a major addition to the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minn.; and a soccer stadium in Munich...
Enter Matt. By 1995 he had taught Jewish mysticism at the university level, written a book comparing Cabala and scientific cosmology, and translated some Zohar excerpts. Nevertheless he was stunned when Margot Pritzker, wife of the chairman of the Hyatt Corp., who was studying the book, offered to bankroll a full translation. "I told her, optimistically, that it might take 18 years," Matt says. "And she said, 'You're not scaring...
...three months ago when their company agreed to merge with Texas Air. Reason: Texas Air Chairman Frank Lorenzo has earned a reputation as a fierce foe of unions. Now it appears that Eastern's workers may be maneuvering to foil the deal. Union representatives have been meeting with Jay Pritzker, a Chicago financier who controls Braniff Airlines and the Hyatt hotel chain. Pritzker is said to be considering a bid for Eastern in return for wage concessions from the workers. Texas Air controls 51% of Eastern stock, but Pritzker could conceivably make Lorenzo a lucrative offer that he could...
Tange, winner of the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1987, lectured at Harvard in 1972 in the Graduate School of Design (GSD) and also received an honorary doctorate from the University...
DIED. KENZO TANGE, 91, Japan's most influential postwar architect, who led the rebuilding of Hiroshima with his peace-park design in 1949; in Tokyo. A winner of the prestigious Pritzker Prize, he helped re-elevate his country to the world stage with his twin comma-shaped sports arenas for Tokyo's 1964 Olympics...