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Architectural Trauma: Downsized Berkeley Art Museum Plans May Not Include Toyo Ito Another acclaimed design joins the Museum of the Unbuilt. No decision yet on whether same architect will design diminished project....
Mies van der Rohe: Celebrated at MoMA, Destroyed in Chicago Is it a "clunky brick box" or like "a minor work by Mozart"? It's making way for a new train station....
Knox-ious Notoriety (and the MoMA Monster mash): "Knox Notch" in the New Yorker Remains of Martin's mural show up in full-page photo of Nouvel tower. Paul Goldberger says MoMA Monster is eviscerated....
Miami Art Museum's Planned New Building: Renzo Piano via Herzog & de Meuron? Are the Swiss channeling the Italian? Rendering of Miami's planned new facility gave me flashbacks to Chicago's new Modern Wing....
MoMA Monster Downsized: City Council Committee Approves 200-Foot Height Reduction If full Council approves deal, developer could squash the same 658,000 square feet into shorter building. Nouvel on the case....
MoMA Monster Refuses to Shrink: NY City Council Committee Hearing MoMA/Hines' heavy hitters resist 200-foot reduction mandated by City Planning Commission. Nouvel might withdraw, if it's 1,050 feet....
Wanted: Great New Recital Hall for San Francisco On San Francisco's woeful lack of quality spaces in which to present chamber music concerts...
MoMA Monster Update: City Planning Downsizes Nouvel's Tower (but it's still too tall) Still exceeds twice the height of tallest nearby building on 54th. That skyscraper fronts on an avenue, not mid-block....
News Flash: City Planning Report Decapitates Nouvel's MoMA Monster Expectations are that NY City Planning Commission tomorrow will vote to lop 200 feet off architect's Empire State-sized ambitions....
Nouvel's World: 1,250-Foot-High Glass Tower "Not a Huge Building" Architect tries to make Empire State-height building seem "modest." Where was Whitney's Adam Weinberg when they really needed him?...
Defending the MoMA Monster at City Planning: No Crowds, No Shadows Lowry says expansion won't increase attendance. Attorney denies tower's "shadow impact." It's "not a Soviet-slab building." That's a relief!...
Where In The World Is Frank Gehry? His Travels South Are Enough to Set Tongues Wagging, Just Like the Old Days With Krens...
MoMA-Monster Smackdown: Tilting at Skyscrapers at the City Planning Hearing UPDATED Is it 82 stories or 85? It keeps growing. At 1,250 feet, it equals (without antenna) the Empire State Building....
Must-See In Buffalo: The Darwin Martin House Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpiece, though not totally restored, is ready for prime time....
Kozinn-Tommasini Smackdown: NY Times Critics Clash over Tully Hall Makeover Kozinn uses the same words I used four months ago---"dry" acoustics, "corporate" ambiance. But the café's a crowd magnet!...
Somewhere along the way A traveling drama critic looks at Frank Lloyd Wright houses in Glencoe....
Interior Decorator "Is technique a cause or an effect?", asks Arnold Schoenberg...
Rising and Falling at the Ann Hamilton Tower The most extraordinary venue for site specific performance I've ever encountered...
The world according to Bucky Is modernism totalitarian? Was Buckminster Fuller?...
Where can artists learn? Where do artists learn best? In the midst of great "beauty" with no distractions or...
Ephemeral architecture Important and impactful buildings don't always have to be permanent....
Memorial Meanings When memorials defy the meanings ascribed to them...
Concert Hall Gaffes: An Irreverent Alice Tully Hall Photo Essay (Part Two) Sensory deprivation, unyielding seat cushions, tricky footwork guided by flashlights. Where's the water fountain? Comments from architect Diller, conductor Robertson....
Concert Hall Gaffes: An Irreverent Alice Tully Hall Photo Essay (Part One) Like the architects' Boston ICA, Alice Tully sports stickers affixed to a glass wall that someone had haplessly walked into....
Alice Tully's Extreme Makeover (Part Two): How Bad Was the Old Hall? If you're spending $159 million on an overhaul, the party line becomes: The facility was woefully inadequate, even politically incorrect....