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Such experimental techniques were par for the course that year, as the atmosphere surrounding each new project fed students’ creative whims. Grants to the Houses by the Ford Foundation and others funded workshops in theater and visual arts...
...Exoneration: Hairs were found at the scene of the crime, and during the trial, a forensic expert testified that the hairs belonged to Pierce. After the Innocence Project became invovled with the case, the FBI's forensic labs re-examined the hairs in 2001, it found they did not belong to Pierce, but to another convicted felon. "I hope you all won't forget about them, too, because there are more," he said upon his release, about others who had been wrongly convicted, after spending 15 years in prison. "I'm just the one that opened the door...
...first major commission. But one year to the day later Libeskind won the competition to work out the master plan for the World Trade Center site in New York City, a commission that was originally envisioned to include his design for the Freedom Tower, the centerpiece of the project. It was a victory that immediately turned him into an architectural celebrity of the first order in the U.S. His big smile, his black-framed eyeglasses, his Armani suits and cowboy boots were everywhere in the media...
...Trade Center project didn't work out as planned. The developer who held the lease on the Twin Towers had ideas of his own. He brought in another architect, David Childs of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, an outfit famous for providing corporations with prestige headquarters, like the Sears Tower and John Hancock Building in Chicago, that are still within their aesthetic comfort zone. For a while Childs and Libeskind collaborated on the Freedom Tower, but the final design, which is now in the first stages of construction, was so unlike Libeskind's original vision that he removed his name from...
Holl has long simmered on the edge of superstardom. Until now, he was best known for a handful of highly regarded projects: a superb little church in Seattle, a much talked-about museum in Helsinki. But his tough-minded aesthetic positions have sometimes worked against him. Last year the artist Richard Tuttle and his wife aired complaints in the New York Times about a guesthouse Holl had designed for them. Then last fall Holl exited a Denver courthouse project after a series of disagreements. So the Bloch building is not just a triumph; it's a timely one. Those five...