If some architects feel a twinge of envy at the mention of Renzo Piano, who can blame them? In the United States alone, the Italian architect is working on or has just finished major museum projects in New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago and San Francisco. And two decades after its completion, the art world still speaks reverently of the serene, muted light in his Menil Collection building in Houston. NYT
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Queen Latifa and Nicolai Ouroussoff!
Love the contrast in the NYT video between pop culture (add for the movie "Phat") and
Sunday Times culture. Its as good as the contrast between Piano's light, airy lobby and McKimMeadWhite's italianate, dark, interiors.
wasn't able to watch the video... IT dept at my job filters "streaming media."
corporate smorporate.
To enter the building through its new Madison Avenue entrance, you slip first under the steel cube that houses the reading room, the full weight of the building bearing down upon you, before experiencing the psychic release of the soaring glass atrium. This is the soul of Mr. Piano's design, and its most spectacular and complex space.
nice, but no Muschamp.
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