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...necessarily negative. They force you to try avenues you would have ignored." Contextualism has been the urban-design buzz word of the past decade, but no architect has done a better job of fitting a big building into such an important, tightly woven urban fabric. The 535,000-sq.-ft. tower is technically an addition to Carnegie Hall and takes important aesthetic cues from...
Pelli, however, did not make the standard postmodern mistake of replicating an old form at inappropriately huge size. The interior spaces are modest (no more than about 14,000 sq. ft. per floor), and an intricately detailed exterior suggests a bygone age, not any particular building or style. Four metal grids, each bolted at an upswept angle to the 60th floor, provide a classically inspired, yet unequivocally modern top. "We picked up threads of the past," says Pelli, "with a contemporary technology and contemporary sensibility...
...excess. At the height of the bull market, 60,000 new jobs were being created annually, luring droves of hyperambitious baby boomers to the canyons of Wall Street and midtown Manhattan. Nicknamed "the Erector set," a stable of real estate developers transformed the cityscape, throwing up 50 million sq. ft. of glistening office monoliths within Manhattan alone. New fortunes upended the city's social lineage, shoving Rockefeller and Astor aside for Trump, Steinberg and Kravis. The new barons redefined wealth beyond Jay Gatsby's wildest dreams, ensconcing themselves in palatial aeries groaning with old masters and nouveau exorbitance...
...subtle intrusions. Far from being islands of primeval beauty, parks from Hawaii to North Carolina are being overrun with nonnative plants and animals, virtually all of them introduced, inadvertently or on purpose, by man. These "exotic threats" have become, officials say, the most serious danger facing the 323,750 sq. km (125,000 sq. mi.) national park system...
Simonne Caillot, a writer and former schoolteacher in the Normandy town of St.-Lo, has refused to eat for more than three weeks, and she shows no signs of ending her hunger strike. Caillot, 45, is protesting to ensure that the strip of trees on a 9,000-sq.-yd. plot of land she once owned will not be felled by its new owner...