"It's one of the more daring buildings in the City, one of the more assertive," says Roger Bowdler.
Stunning bridges, airports and daring buildings have made him famous around the world, but now Santiago Calatrava is facing fierce criticism for his dealings with the local government in his home region of Valencia.
Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao has shown town planners that a daring new building can be both popular and a boon to tourism.
After more than 100 years in a stately manse, the Telfair Museum of Art's Academy of Arts and Sciences, 121 Barnard Street, (912) 232-1177, www.telfair.org, is expanding into a daring new building by Moshe Safdie, the architect of Habitat '67 in Montreal and the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles.
The MASP was meant to express Brazil's ascent on the international stage – as well as the ascent of wealthy, cosmopolitan São Paulo against its traditional rival, Rio de Janeiro – and Bo Bardi proposed a daring, iconic building worthy of the job.
She was daring, scaling buildings and sneaking into forbidden sites.
The walls are thickly dressed in hand-thrown rendering and then whitewashed, so that they seem less solid than the roof; such daring gives the building a quality of inexplicability, like Stonehenge or the White Horse of Uffington.
To make the case for Brahms as a progressive, Schoenberg pointed to his use of irregular phrase lengths, his unorthodox approach to structure, his daring way of building phrases from fragments and motifs rather than complete melodic lines and, most of all, his extremely chromatic and experimental harmonic language.
