Architexturez. wrote:
Toulouse-Lautrec tops year in art, architecture
| closing 2005, in Chicago they like the moderns,
| The Observer still likes to talk about superstars
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The heights of folly and fashion
Deyan Sudjic
The Observer
This was the year that the world's developers went mad about skyscrapers,
| and
Zaha Hadid finally got the chance to build in Britain, (yawn!)
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http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,1669785,00.html
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The awards
Architectural sculpture of the year: Thomas Heatherwick's B of the Bang,
Manchester
Exit of the year: Philip Johnson, 1906-2005, for almost a century the
most enduring presence in American architecture
Most questionable exhibition of the year: The decision of New York's
Metropolitan Museum of Art to let Santiago Calatrava exhibit his
so-called architectural sculpture in a gallery in sight of Brancusi
falls into the category of giving a man enough rope
Resurrection of the year: Erich Mendelsohn's De La Warr Pavilion in
Bexhill-on-Sea, a rare piece of prewar modernism in Britain reopened as
an arts centre after a long, drawn-out restoration
Turkey: Broadway Malyan's 600ft apartment tower at Vauxhall Bridge, London