Word: terrazzo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Along the avenue, portals framed in warm black terrazzo give access to the internal galleries. Here, Aulenti has done marvels with adjustment of scale to image. Each space suits its contents, whether one is looking at Daumier's 36 clay caricature heads of the Celebrites du Juste- Milieu, no bigger than grenades and as lethal, whose passionate violations of the human face would so deeply affect Giacometti a century later, or at the large, suave, marmoreal forms of Ingres and early neoclassical Jean-Leon Gerome...
...shops. The rock garden and waterfall are stylized Japanese. The architecture is playful postmodern with the now standard affectations and allusions to Palladian renaissance. But Isozaki's stylishness is not random. Only a Japanese architect and his craftsmen could use materials as diverse as titanium-glazed tile, glass terrazzo, onyx, inlaid marble of different colors, and gold and silver doorknobs to create an effect of subtlety and restraint...
...churns overhead, searchlight sweeping over the melee below. For a mile east and a mile west, six lanes of traffic move in caravan, a rolling cacophony of full-blast stereos rising above a cross-lane exchange of insults, come-ons and general greetings. Along the sidewalk-the famous chocolate terrazzo sidewalk embedded with bronze-edged stars framing the names of superstars-gang members defiantly stake out their turf. There are police on horseback, on motorcycles, on foot, in plainclothes. Knots of bewildered tourists, looking for Tinseltown, realize they have wandered into a weekend war zone...
Some of the fortunate found relief from the tropical sun under the spreading leaves of mango trees in the embassy gardens. But others were overcome by sunstroke and dehydration. Dozens of children lay sprawled on the cool terrazzo floor of the two-story mansion, while one mother nursed her newborn baby, aptly named Peru. "There are people in the branches of the trees, on top of the mangled iron gate and even on the roof of the embassy," wailed one beleaguered Peruvian official. "There's not enough room for one more person...