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Christy MacLear, executive director of Philip Johnson's Glass House for the National Trust, recognizes the unprecedented nature of the project, but finds it neither sad nor daunting. Ms. MacLear has had to face two major challenges: how to keep something that was always on the lively edge of the new from becoming a lifeless simulacrum, and the even more difficult problem that goes straight to the heart of the matter -- how to deal with a period and a style for which no models exist and standards are only evolving at a time when the modernist architecture of the 20th century is being rapidly and thoughtlessly demolished. Obviously, the Glass House could not follow the formula of a tastefully reinvented past. You can't reinvent Philip Johnson.
Marcel Breuer one of the fathers of modern architecture, built only one skyscraper, the 29-story Cleveland Trust Tower, which today stands abandoned on a forlorn block downtown.
But a plan to demolish the tower, and replace it with a midrise government office building, has caused an outcry among architectural preservationists, who call the building an overlooked landmark.
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Certainly we’re all a bit apprehensive here at the [Chelsea] hotel, wondering what will happen now to our unique artistic community. The actual ownership structure of the hotel is a closely guarded secret. It is known that Stanley’s father, David, in partnership with two men named Krauss and Gross, bought the hotel in 1940. (Stanley took over upon his father’s death in 1957.) These days, the part of the hotel that Stanley’s father owned is still in the Bard family, but the interests of the other partners’ families are represented by a board of directors. The board seems to have given Stanley a wide latitude in managing the hotel over the years--that is, apparently, until just recently. What happened is that the hotel simply became too valuable.
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