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Tough facade: Philip Nobel on the Austrian Cultural Forum. (News).(Brief Article)
Artforum International, April, 2002 by Nobel, Philip
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> MANY BUILDINGS, overtime, are given colloquial labels that distill their symbolic freight, mediating between an architect's intentions and the mystification of a public confronting new forms. But it is rare for a building to debut with any caption other than the designer's own. By the time it opens to the public later this month, the Austrian Cultural Forum in Manhattan--a twenty-four-story tower tucked into a town-house lot on East Fifty-second Street--will have been compared variously to an Easter Island megalith, a Gillette Mach 3 cartridge, and a bit of Secession ornament writ ...
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