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June 23rd, 2008, 11:27 AM
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http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/06/22/arts/20080622_POGR_SLIDESHOW_6.html
A rendering of Republic Square in Almaty, Kazakhstan, by Eric Owen Moss.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/22/arts/design/22pogr.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Some architects argue that architecture is more important to them than politics. “I’m a guy who has on my wall a picture of the guy in front of the tank,” said Eric Owen Moss, a Los Angeles architect, referring to the famous photograph from the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. “But I’ve never turned down a project in Russia and China.”
Mr. Moss has designed the Guangdong Museum and Opera House in China as well as a ceremonial plaza, Republic Square, in Almaty, Kazakhstan, which has been ruled by the same autocratic leader, Nursultan Nazarbayev, since the 1980s. Read on (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/22/arts/design/22pogr.html?_r=1&oref=slogin)
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/06/22/arts/20080622_POGR_SLIDESHOW_6.html
A rendering of Republic Square in Almaty, Kazakhstan, by Eric Owen Moss.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/22/arts/design/22pogr.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Some architects argue that architecture is more important to them than politics. “I’m a guy who has on my wall a picture of the guy in front of the tank,” said Eric Owen Moss, a Los Angeles architect, referring to the famous photograph from the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. “But I’ve never turned down a project in Russia and China.”
Mr. Moss has designed the Guangdong Museum and Opera House in China as well as a ceremonial plaza, Republic Square, in Almaty, Kazakhstan, which has been ruled by the same autocratic leader, Nursultan Nazarbayev, since the 1980s. Read on (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/22/arts/design/22pogr.html?_r=1&oref=slogin)