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...they will appear at completion. On the left is a dashing, torqued configuration by Zaha Hadid, the London-based architect who was this year's winner of the Pritzker Prize, architecture's most prestigious award. On the right is Japanese architect Arata Isozaki's furrowed wafer of glass and steel, buttressed by diagonal struts that seem almost too slender for their supporting role. And between them is Libeskind's contribution, a supreme bit of architectural legerdemain. It's a curving tower doing what should be, for a building, the impossible. Doing it very suavely too. It's taking...
...adjacent to the New Orleans Museum of Art; and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, in the city's warehouse district. From downtown, spend $1.25 for a 25-minute trip north on the new Canal Street cable car to the bucolic Sculpture Garden. More than 50 bronze and stainless steel pieces--including Venus Victorious, by French impressionist Pierre Renoir--adorn the garden's lagoons and pine groves...
Klein implied that John Kerry lost the election because a lot of Southern Christians felt ignored by the Democrats. But Klein overlooks the fact that President Bush has shown himself to be a strong leader with a spine of solid steel. Kerry's claims that he would "hunt down and kill the terrorists, wherever they are" were not believable, coming from someone with a 20-year demonstrated lack of leadership in the Senate...
...newsroom is a factory. The desks and walls are industrial gray, the bulletin boards on its walls lined with frayed red construction paper. The long neon bulbs that hang overhead are suspended by a lattice of steel supports that angle down from what appears to be corrugated tin. Like a Pompidou Center minus the art, a network of unabashedly exposed rectangular ducts, pipes of varying thickness, massive red steel columns, and I-beams lined with coffee-mug-size rivets frame the edges of the room...
Like anyone desiring entry to the Crimson newsroom, natural light must pass a few tests before arriving: it filters through the steel steps that lean over an alley behind the building, then angles into the room through a glass wall of thick square panels. There are no other windows...