Museum design center of controversy; Uffizi in Florence: Architect rejects compromise for the canopy and the project is in limbo

Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque) | August 5, 2002| | Copyright

FLORENCE, Italy (AP) - For the wicked-tongued Italian art critic, it's a seven-story-high bed frame that would horrify art-lovers as they take their leave of the Uffizi and the gallery's priceless treasures.

For the renowned Japanese architect who is designing a new exit for one of the world's finest museums, it's an airy skylight conceived to be in harmony with the pleasing dimensions of this Renaissance city.

Is the talk of this art-blessed town these muggy midsummer days really an aesthetic disaster-in-the making, as fired-up opponents like film and opera director Franco Zeffirelli would ...

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