Numbers crunching

Article Abstract:

Jasper Johns' Numbers painting was almost lost by New York's Lincoln Center when its chairman and president agreed to sell the painting to a private buyer. However, officials of New York's Metropolitan Museum and the Museum of Modern Art protested against the auctioning of the painting because they know that that painting was specifically made to be displayed at the Lincoln Center, hence, moving it to another place would lose its historical and contextual associations. Due to the negative publicities coming out, Lincoln Center's Board of Directors voted against the selling of the painting.

Management, Works, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Johns, Jasper

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Outside in: a dismal loggia comes to life as a luminous lobby

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Design consultants Himmel/Bonner Architects were asked to redesign the facade and entrance lobby to the premises of Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co and Gollub & Co. Himmel/Bonner obtained permission to enclose the area under the building within the lobby, increasing it by 15,000 square feet. Indirect lighting was used which complemented the overlapping materials of the lobby which included wood and granite.

Contracts

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Let there be light; renovation raises a basement's status

Article Abstract:

Himmel/ Bonner Architects were asked to redesign the basement of the Loop Synagogue, Chicago, with the requirement that the furnishings must blend with the 1950's Aaltoesque finish of the upper rooms. Himmel/Bonner made use of indirect lighting and created a large room from the many small storage rooms. panels of burled Gabon Makore wood were used to hide storage spaces.

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