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During the past decade, his work has become coherent and confident again, partly by means of a lightly worn classicism. For the Zueblin construction company's new headquarters outside Stuttgart, he has produced an improbable but marvelous synthesis. A kind of oversize trompe l'oeil portcullis, Zueblin House is monumental and yet entirely permeable, lucid but not glib. The clear, simple axes and pitched-roof profile are classical, and the expansive ectoskeletal shed seems snatched from some 19th century dream of the 20th. The building's priapic pivot alludes to Bohm's own pioneering work: the central spiraling stair could...
Hartwig Looft, an electronics teacher from Stuttgart, West Germany, who said he had been working for the Libyans for the last 24 years, said he heard a "big bang" and saw huge columns of smoke when the bombers struck...
...fantastic! I can't conceive of it!" exclaimed Klaus von Klitzing last week. The inconceivable, however, has long been familiar territory to the Polish-born, 42-year-old director of the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, in Stuttgart, West Germany: the mind-boggling field of quantum mechanics is his special ground. This year, taking note of Von Klitzing's quantized Hall effect, an application of quantum theory's abstruse axioms to the more mundane field of commercial electronics, the Nobel Committee named him physics laureate. Said the boyish-looking father of three: "I've always wanted to answer...
...most highly regarded of Stirling's West German works is the Neue Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart. Avant-garde critics of architecture have lauded the new museum addition...
Stirling's proposal is similar to one linking old and new German museums in Stuttgart's New State Gallery. Inside, the world's other Stirling bridge functions as a gallery through which visitors cross unaware of their trek from one building to the other. criticism tells its toll, the Sackler likely will not be viewed as one of his masterpieces...