SHOWCASE BY ROBERT POLIDORI about the new chancellery in Berlin… The chancellery architects, Axel Schultes and Charlotte Frank, won a competition for the commission in 1995… The new chancellery in Berlin may not be as dreary as the last one, a quarter-mile-long box of stone by Speer, but it is hardly more modest or more dignified.
By Paul Goldberger The New Yorker, August 13 , 2001P. 66 SHOWCASE BY ROBERT POLIDORI about the new chancellery in Berlin… The chancellery architects, Axel Schultes and Charlotte Frank, won a competition for the commission in 1995… The new chancellery in Berlin may not be as dreary as the last one, a quarter-mile-long box of stone by Speer, but it is hardly more modest or more dignified.
While this is obviously a problem in need of a solution it is hardly a valid reason to deny countless others, who do want a dignified end of life, this option.
This is hardly surprising.
And dignified minority figures were hardly the norm in popular film and TV culture.
It was hardly the inspirational scene in Atlanta in 1996, when a trembling but dignified and triumphant Ali touched the world by lighting the Olympic Torch, one of the Games' most meaningful moments.
Ushered out of the door by the most ruthless manager in the business, Keane's exit could hardly have been less dignified for a man who has graced the Old Trafford pitch for the last 12 years.
