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Zaha Hadid brings subtlety to Cincinnati. Not something it's used to.
16 June 2003
Zaha Hadid's designs used to be considered unbuildable, by people who knew
nothing about architecture. Then she built a few things in odd corners of
Europe - a fire station, a tram depot, a ski jump - and the same people said,
OK, so she can do little stuff. But a big cultural venue - that's different.
After which, it was only a matter of time before Zaha completed a big cultural
venue, an $30m art gallery in this case, which she won in competition against
the best in the world. The oddest thing about it is not what it looks like
but where it is. Cincinnati? Please. full article
Norman Foster, Frank Lloyd Wright and the endless appeal of the supertower.
2 June 2003
If you’re going to do a show on skyscrapers, there are two ways to go about
it. You can present each tower as a totemic object, a crystalline sculpture.
Or you can say, nuts to that, let’s pile ‘em in and see how they all get
along with each other. Lord Foster, curator of the "Sky High" exhibition
at this year’s Royal Academy Summer Show, has chosen the second approach.
He has summoned architectural models from the four corners of the world
and jumbles them together, cheek by jowl, to make two fantasy cities - East
and West. full article
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