Word: rossi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...More than 200 architects from 15 countries entered IBA's invitational design competitions, and the winners constitute a sort of international Who's Who. West Berlin has or will soon have new IBA buildings by O.M. Ungers (West Germany), Hans Hollein (Austria), Rob Krier (Luxembourg), Mario Botta (Switzerland), Aldo Rossi (Italy), Oriol Bohigas (Spain), Rem Koolhaas (the Netherlands), James Stirling (Britain), Arata Isozaki (Japan) and, from the U.S., Charles Moore, Robert A.M. Stern, Stanley Tigerman, Peter Eisenman and John Hejduk. A museum show tied to IBA, "750 Years of Architecture and Urban Design," is currently on view in West Berlin...
...modest size: five stories, five apartments to a floor. The most extravagant is by Hans Hollein, a ((pink and blue and yellow and red)) box with broad, flaring eaves and lights embedded in column capitals -- the largest Memphis-style object ever constructed. The best of the lot is Aldo Rossi's low-key construction of red brick and yellow block. The colored bands recall Schinkel, the octagonal clerestory recalls Rossi's own floating Venetian theater, and the exposed I- beam "lintels" over the windows remind us that architecture is about construction as well as decoration...
...council discussed, but did not take action, on, a complaint from Alfred E. Vellucci that small shopkeepers have been shocked to a receive bills for $225 in fees for city garbage collection since June of 1986. Richard Rossi, assistant city manager and director of the public work department (DPW), said city law first imposed the charge of $25 per month in 1955, although collection has been sporadically enforced...
...order to replenish the snow budget, the city will transfer money from another fund, Rossi said. He and City Manager Robert W. Healy will decide within the next few weeks exactly where the money will come from, Rossi said...
During the past few winters, which have been milder than those one, there has been a $20,000 surplus in the snow budget, said Rossi, adding that the left-over money goes to a general fund and is appropriated during the next fiscal year...