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Andre Balazs, the hotelier behind the impeccably chic Standard hotels of downtown Los Angeles, Hollywood and Miami, has brought his gifted brand of innkeeping to Lower Manhattan's Meatpacking District. Rising up over the Hudson River, the Standard New York is a visually striking property, designed by Todd Schliemann of New York City's Polshek Partnership Architects and built right above the Highline - a former elevated rail track in the process of being converted into an aerial park. The Highline's first section is open to the public and runs between Gansevoort Street and 20th Street. As Manhattan's newest...
...firm is best known for subdued historical renovations, but he and partner Todd Schliemann conceived the Rose Center as a brisk geometric eruption, like I.M. Pei's Louvre pyramid, that shakes up the buildings around them. The old Hayden Planetarium, demolished to make way for the Rose, had blended all too well with the museum's flavorless north end. Polshek's forms, by contrast, operate on our deepest fantasies about the order of the universe. His sphere is covered with steel panels that inscribe it with meridians and latitude lines, so it stands in easily for the earth...
...reading your article on the exhibition in Moscow of the gold treasures unearthed by Heinrich Schliemann [ARCHAEOLOGY, April 22], I was surprised that part of the article seemed to be a propaganda tool for Turkey to claim ownership. There was no ancient Turkey, and the ancestors of the modern-day Turks did not inhabit the Turkish coast, also known as Asia Minor, in ancient times. So do these artifacts truly belong to the Turkish nation? German and Turkish claims on the Trojan antiquities certainly ring hollow, particularly when you consider that the frieze of the Parthenon and other sculptures taken...
Turkey is still smoldering over scams Schliemann committed in the 1870s. Engin Ozgen, the government's general director of monuments and museums, has sent nine communiques to officials in Bonn and Moscow, claiming ownership of the treasure and asking to be included in negotiations over their fate. "We have had no answer," he says. The Turks would like to gather the Troy artifacts from Russia, Germany and the other countries where they've been dispersed and display them in a museum near the actual site...
...appeal and makes scientific sense as well. Modern archaeologists like to study objects in context to try to unravel how, why and by whom they were used. Clearly, having Priam's Treasure on hand would help them do that--finally making the discoveries of the brilliant and devious Heinrich Schliemann fully as important as he thought they were...