Even when you’re spending $225 million for an “extension” of a museum, there are trade-offs. Will the Cleveland Museum get its money’s worth? “For me, the answer at this point is a resounding yes. Rafael Vinoly’s design, which would cost $225 million to build, is undergirded by a precise, diamond- hard logic that mar ries dramatic physical changes with a new vi sion about the muse um’s potential. The key is whether Vinoly can follow through with details big and small that will make all the difference in the final product. This is no minor question.”
Tag: 02.09.03
San Francisco Opera’s New Tune – A Good One
No one likes cutting back, but San Francsico Opera is making the right move in scaling back its budget for the next few seasons. “The courageous decision by General Director Pamela Rosenberg and the board to finally get real about the company’s perennial financial difficulties represents that classic first step in the breaking of any bad habit – admitting you have a problem.”
A Poll On The Finalists Says…
So which of the two competing finalists to design a replacement for the World Trade Center do people like? Hmmmmn…one poll says neither (by a wide margin).