... to be a criminal to be poor at planning. You could be a bureaucrat. According to Time magazine, the American Center in Paris was forced to close just 19 months after opening its dazzling new $41 million building designed by West Coast architect Frank Gehry. Why? Construction costs ate up the center’s entire endowment, leaving nothing for running the literature, language and dance classes that had made the center the pre-eminent showplace for American artistry in Europe. (4) It’s a story told time and ...
... too bloated from junk food?) Next month our daughter will join a hundred or so other Girl Scouts in earning a new merit badge. The Girl Scouts will spend an afternoon at millionaire/philanthropist/music fan Paul Allen's ode to rock'n'roll, the architect Frank Gehry's unique (from the air it looks like a three story smashed Jimi-Hendrix guitar) "Experience Music Project" (or EMP) in downtown Seattle. The Girl Scouts will be learning how to sing, dance and perform so that they can create and star in their own ...
