"Just a cornerstone with everyone's name on it who died, and that's it".
As Boston's first new art museum in decades, the I.C.A. is already a cultural cornerstone, with rotating exhibitions and a permanent collection with works by Nan Goldin, Cornelia Parker and Julian Opie.
The cornerstone, with a box of newspapers and other memorabilia, was laid earlier in the year, as war raged in Europe.
This is the second time in two years that the Ravens have locked up a franchise cornerstone with a deadline deal.
To coordinate the laying of the Freedom Tower cornerstone with the Republican National Convention in New York next summer is an unrealistic goal that will compromise the success of all our efforts.
Michael Gericke, a partner in the Pentagram studio, which designed the cornerstone with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, the architects of the Freedom Tower, said Gotham "didn't look like something that was created yesterday and would be gone tomorrow".
Peter Bentel of Bentel & Bentel, which designed the New York restaurants Gramercy Tavern and Craft, came home from Cornerstone with twin slabs sliced from the center of an old oak log.
Alison Carey, who comes from Storrs, founded Cornerstone with Mr. Rauch and wrote the adaptation of Brecht, several drafts' worth, each evolving from workshops "in neighborhood sites," Mr. Rauch said.
"I'll bet two or three times a month, I'll go stand at home plate and look around and go, 'Who would have thought, 14 years ago, that we'd have Safeco Field?' " Griffey was the cornerstone — with Randy Johnson, Edgar Martinez and Jay Buhner — of what might be the most revered team in baseball that did not win a pennant.
