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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...improved metropolis that would extend out over Tokyo Bay. Today, at 74, he is still pushing it. But now Tange, the winner of this year's Pritzker Architecture Prize, is at the center of another bitter controversy, over his design for new Tokyo metropolitan government offices. With a main section 797 ft. tall and an estimated construction cost of $780 million, this project would be the biggest, most expensive Japanese building ever -- too big and too expensive, his critics say. Even more disconcerting to many of Tange's peers is the building's design: with its split tower, ersatz campaniles...
...Fujisawa Municipal Gymnasium (1982) exemplifies the impeccable craft of his best work since then. Like much Japanese architecture of the past 25 years, it has a sci-fi quality: one section of the building resembles some enormous otherworldly blimp, the other calls to mind a high-tech samurai helmet. But unlike the slicker gimmicky UFO architecture (Kurokawa's earlier work, for instance), Maki's gym is restrained and sober, a mature fantasy. The flawless, parabolic stainless-steel skin is 1.6 acres in size but just about one-sixtieth of an inch thick...
David Barrett, former prime minister of British Columbia recalled his childhood in a working class section of Vancouver, spiced by the politics of his "extreme left" mother and his "more rational left" father...
...Instead, he entered law school in 1972, though he did not graduate until nine years later. In the meantime, Ramaphosa was busy helping to lead the Black Consciousness movement, whose charismatic young founder, Steve Biko, died in 1977 of injuries sustained while in police custody. Ramaphosa headed the university section of the South African Students Organization, a radical umbrella group that gave rise to several militant student factions that remain active today...
...planned papal speeches have been drafted by U.S. writers and revised by the American prelate in the Vatican with the most regular access to the Pope. He is Archbishop Justin Rigali, a Los Angeles native who heads both the Holy See's diplomatic school and the English-language section of the Secretariat of State. Vatican insiders expect that John Paul will reaffirm some of his basic policies but without scolding. Says Vatican Press Spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls: "He will convince not with authority but affection...