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La instalación de cristal realizada por el arquitecto estadounidense Richard Meier para cubrir el Ara Pacis de Roma, el altar construido como forma de festejar el regreso del emperador Augusto tras sus victoriosas campañas, fue inaugurada hoy ocho años después de que comenzasen las obras de construcción.
La instalación, que parece una 'pecera' enorme y que contendrá el histórico altar, realizado entre el 13 y el 9 antes de Cristo y considerado único en su género por sus valioso bajorrelieves, fue inaugurada hoy por el arquitecto de Nueva York, ideador del museo Getty de Los Angeles, y el alcalde de Roma, Walter Veltroni.
Ara Pacis - Rendering di Stefano Borghini e Raffaele Carlani
La obra ha sido muchas veces criticada no sólo por que la tardanza en su construcción, que ha privado durante ocho años a los turistas y ciudadanos italianos la posibilidad de contemplar el Ara Pacis, sino también por la modernidad de la construcción que resalta respecto al resto de monumentos de la zona, como el Mausoleo de Augusto.
'Es un horror inmenso firmado por un arquitecto incapaz al que han pagado dos millones de euros, no hay palabras para describir lo que han hecho. Quitemos el Ara Pacis de allí y hagamos una pizzería', dijo hoy uno de los críticos de arte más conocidos del país, Vittorio Sgarbi, que fue subsecretario del Ministerio de Cultura durante los primeros años del gobierno de Silvio Berlusconi.
'La pecera' que alojará el Museo del Ara Pacis tiene una dimensión de 1.500 metros cuadrados y el exterior es de vidrio y acero, lo que permitirá la visión desde el exterior de la obra, y está coronado por un techo bajo y plano que se extenderá junto al río Tiber. Sustituirá a la estructura de mármol de estilo racionalista, típico de la época del dictador Benito Musssolini, realizado por Vittorio Morpurgo, que hasta ahora servía para proteger el monumento. Pero sobre todo se ha criticado que la instalación costara 40 millones de euros.
La estructura aún no ha sido terminada y las obras concluirán definitivamente el próximo julio, aunque los turistas y visitantes podrán desde hoy visitar el monumento, pues aún se tienen que completar la sala de conferencias y el auditorio previsto.
'Hoy restituimos a los ciudadanos romanos y a todo el mundo el Ara Pacis, símbolo de una Roma que es antigua y moderna', explico Veltroni, que quiso inaugurarla hoy en coincidencia con la fecha del nacimiento de Roma. El alcalde explicó que el proyecto, ha sido 'muy discutido, como son discutidas las grandes obras' pero que entra dentro de un plan de recalificación comenzado por el anterior alcalde, Francesco Rutelli, para convertir la zona en un 'lugar más vivible'.
El arquitecto Richard Meyer comentó que para él fue muy gratificante el haber construido este 'símbolo de paz' y comentó que este trabajo 'hará aún más grande este ciudad'. Por su parte el ex alcalde de Roma y ahora líder del partido La Margarita, Rutelli, afirmó que le parecía 'precioso' y añadió que 'las polémicas siempre surgen pero que al final hay que mirar los resultados'.
El Ara Pacis es un monumento conmemorativo ordenado por el Senado en acción de gracias por el regreso del emperador Augusto tras sus victoriosas campañas en Hispania y Galia, y la paz que éste había impuesto. El material utilizado es mármol de Carrara, y lo más destacado es la decoración escultórica que recubre el edificio, sobre todo los frisos laterales, que representan a Augusto, su familia, amigos, magistrados y senadores, componiendo un magnífico conjunto de retratos.
Fuente: C. Giles / Terra Actualidad - Europa Press, 21 de abril de 2006
Enlace: http://actualidad.terra.es/internacional/articulo/ara_pacis_roma_842812.htm
Fotos: http://www.romeguide.it/MONUM/ARCHEOL/ara_pacis/ara_pacis.htm
(2) Ara Pacis, a troubled history
Minimalist 'box' first major modern building since Fascism
(see main item on site) (ANSA) - Rome, April 21 - Rome's new home for the Ara Pacis has had a troubled history since award-winning US architect Richard Meier won the commission in 1995.
Its early detractors were swatted away by confident former mayor Francesco Rutelli, on a wave of excitement about the stately old lady finally getting a modern addition to its Baroque heritage. But opposition built after Mayor Walter Veltroni replaced Rutelli in 2001, as Silvio Berlusconi's new government took up the baton of protest.
One of the fiercest opponents of the design was controversial Italian art historian Vittorio Sgarbi, who burned a model of Meier's building in the Rome square next to the Ara Pacis.
As culture undersecretary from 2001 to 2003, the flamboyant polemicist threatened hunger strikes, urged art students to bomb the site, and punned that Meier was set on turning the Ara Pacis into a 'bara Pacis' (coffin of peace) .
He accused Meier of "knowing Rome the way I know Tibet".
But Sgarbi, though the most strident, was not alone in opposing the building.
A groundswell of protest rose among Italian 'name' architects, who recently cited it as an example of alleged moves to 'Los Angelise' Rome.
Others muttered the relatively simple original design has morphed into a grandiose complex eight times bigger than what it is replacing.
Media critics were split, with some hailing it as a welcome piece of understated modernism in a florid Baroque city, and others as wholly out of step with its surroundings.
The latest threat to the much-tweaked complex came just before Friday's inauguration, when rightwing mayoral candidate Gianni Alemanno pledged to rip it down and replace it with something like the simple, glass Fascist-era showcase it supplanted.
Ordinary Romans had no trouble saying what they thought about the project right from the start.
Even when it was in its infancy, and the Meier 'box' could only be glimpsed through corrugated iron sheets and scaffolding, they smeared the site with graffiti calling it a phonebox, gas station and "cesso" - the most vulgar Italian word for toilet.
Fuente: © Copyright ANSA. 21 de abril de 2006
Enlace: http://ansa.it/main/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2006-04-21_1215036.html
(3) Ara Pacis home unveiled
Controversial Meier work houses Augustus peace symbol
(ANSA) - Rome, April 21 - A new home for the Roman Empire's most famous peace symbol was unveiled on Friday after a turbulent seven years of building, polemics and alterations .
"We are giving the Ara Pacis back to the citizens of Rome, at once an ancient and modern monument," said Rome Mayor Walter Veltroni, who has championed US architect Richard Meier's ultramodern showcase since his election as mayor five years ago .
Speaking on Rome's traditional 'birthday' - the 2,759th anniversary of its mythical foundation - the centre-left mayor promised work to "integrate" the building into its surroundings .
Meier said he was "delighted" to have finally completed the project - Rome's first piece of modern architecture since Fascist days - for "such a great, grand city" .
"I hope that the people who come here will get a sense of peace and serenity," he added .
Media crews from all over the world snapped away as Veltroni cut the ribbon, while in the background a group of rightwing National Alliance (AN) party protesters waved Italian and black flags. The building has still to be completed with an indoor auditorium and a fountain, expected to be finished in a matter of months .
But it is already facing its latest threat, from the AN candidate to run Rome .
Gianni Alemanno wants to dismantle the building, put it in the Roman outskirts and replace it with something more like the simple, glass Fascist-era showcase it supplanted .
Veltroni's camp has blasted Alemanno's "extremist" and "absurd" proposal .
But the cultural heritage body Italia Nostra came out with a fresh denunciation of the "inappropriate" work .
Meier's design, the first piece of modern architecture in Rome's historic centre since Fascist days, has had to be changed several times since Meier won the contract in 1995 - six years before Veltroni's election .
Earlier this year, in the latest change, Meier said he was happy to put a piece of old Rome into the ultramodern site - a move some saw as a sop to critics .
Meier was also "delighted" with Veltroni's announcement of an international competition for projects to integrate the Ara Pacis with the surrounding square .
The final version of the building has a museum, auditorium, restaurant, bar, 300-seater theatre and underpass leading to the Tiber .
To give old-style 'distinction' to the site, Meier has also added a grand travertine entrance stairway and a Roman-style monolith pointing towards Augustus's ancient Roman 'meridian', the point in the old Camp of Mars - now near the premier's office - where legions had to lay down arms if they were to be allowed into the city .
A recipient of architecture's prime laurel, the Pritzker Prize, in 1985, Meier has been mentioned in the same breath as Britain's Norman Foster and Italy's Renzo Piano, the high priests of modernism .
His credits include the Getty Center in Los Angeles, Barcelona's Museum of Contemporary Art and Frankfurt's Museum of the Arts .
The altar was commissioned in 13 BCE to celebrate peace throughout the Roman Empire .
It was completed in 9 BCE, 23 years before Augustus's death at the age of 76 in 14 CE (AD) .
The architectural hub of Ancient Rome, circled by a bas relief of a procession of peace showing Aeneas, the Earth, Italy and Rome, it marked the first emperor's victorious return from Spain and Gaul and celebrated the peace he had restored to the empire .
According to a tradition launched by Roman writers, Rome was founded by Romulus, a descendant of the Trojan hero Aeneas, in 753 BCE .
Fuente: © Copyright ANSA. 21 de abril de 2006
Enlace: http://ansa.it/main/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2006-04-21_1215013.html
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<div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" align=left><FONT face=Verdana><STRONG>La instalación de cristal realizada por el arquitecto estadounidense Richard Meier para cubrir el Ara Pacis de Roma, el altar construido como forma de festejar el regreso del emperador Augusto tras sus victoriosas campañas, fue inaugurada hoy ocho años después de que comenzasen las obras de construcción.</STRONG></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><STRONG><FONT face=Verdana></FONT></STRONG> </div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" align=center><IMG src="http://www.unicaen.fr/rome/virtuel/images/araPacis/vue01.jpg"></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><STRONG><FONT face=Verdana></FONT></STRONG> </div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" align=center><IMG alt=45161 hspace=11 src="http://www.exibart.com/foto/45161.jpg" vspace=7 border=0></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm
0pt"><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p><FONT face=Verdana> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Verdana>La instalación, que parece una 'pecera' enorme y que contendrá el histórico altar, realizado entre el 13 y el 9 antes de Cristo y considerado único en su género por sus valioso bajorrelieves, fue inaugurada hoy por el arquitecto de Nueva York, ideador del museo Getty de Los Angeles, y el alcalde de Roma, Walter Veltroni.</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Verdana></FONT> </div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" align=center><IMG height=350 alt="" src="http://www.zetema.it/var/ezzetema/storage/images/servizi_museali/didattica/visite_guidate_al_cantiere_dell_ara_pacis/2102-11-ita-IT/visite_guidate_al_cantiere_dell_ara_pacis.jpg" width=350></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" align=center> </div>
<div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" align=center><STRONG><FONT face=verdana size=1>Ara Pacis - Rendering di Stefano Borghini e Raffaele Carlani</FONT></STRONG></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><o:p><FONT face=Verdana> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Verdana>La obra ha sido muchas veces criticada no sólo por que la tardanza en su construcción, que ha privado durante ocho años a los turistas y ciudadanos italianos la posibilidad de contemplar el Ara Pacis, sino también por la modernidad de la construcción que resalta respecto al resto de monumentos de la zona, como el Mausoleo de Augusto.</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Verdana></FONT> </div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" align=center><IMG src="http://www.romeguide.it/MONUM/ARCHEOL/ara_pacis/vista_04.jpg"></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm
0pt"><o:p><FONT face=Verdana> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Verdana>'Es un horror inmenso firmado por un arquitecto incapaz al que han pagado dos millones de euros, no hay palabras para describir lo que han hecho. Quitemos el Ara Pacis de allí y hagamos una pizzería', dijo hoy uno de los críticos de arte más conocidos del país, Vittorio Sgarbi, que fue subsecretario del Ministerio de Cultura durante los primeros años del gobierno de Silvio Berlusconi.</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Verdana></FONT> </div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" align=center><IMG src="http://www.romeguide.it/MONUM/ARCHEOL/ara_pacis/vista_05.jpg"></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><o:p><FONT face=Verdana> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Verdana>'La pecera' que alojará el Museo del Ara Pacis tiene una
dimensión de 1.500 metros cuadrados y el exterior es de vidrio y acero, lo que permitirá la visión desde el exterior de la obra, y está coronado por un techo bajo y plano que se extenderá junto al río Tiber. Sustituirá a la estructura de mármol de estilo racionalista, típico de la época del dictador Benito Musssolini, realizado por Vittorio Morpurgo, que hasta ahora servía para proteger el monumento. Pero sobre todo se ha criticado que la instalación costara 40 millones de euros.</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Verdana></FONT> </div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" align=center><IMG src="http://www.romeguide.it/MONUM/ARCHEOL/ara_pacis/vista_15.jpg"></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><o:p><FONT face=Verdana> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Verdana>La estructura aún no ha sido terminada y las obras concluirán definitivamente el próximo
julio, aunque los turistas y visitantes podrán desde hoy visitar el monumento, pues aún se tienen que completar la sala de conferencias y el auditorio previsto.</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Verdana></FONT> </div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" align=center><IMG src="http://www.romeguide.it/MONUM/ARCHEOL/ara_pacis/vista_13.jpg"></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><o:p><FONT face=Verdana> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Verdana>'Hoy restituimos a los ciudadanos romanos y a todo el mundo el Ara Pacis, símbolo de una Roma que es antigua y moderna', explico Veltroni, que quiso inaugurarla hoy en coincidencia con la fecha del nacimiento de Roma. El alcalde explicó que el proyecto, ha sido 'muy discutido, como son discutidas las grandes obras' pero que entra dentro de un plan de recalificación comenzado por el anterior alcalde, Francesco
Rutelli, para convertir la zona en un 'lugar más vivible'.</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Verdana></FONT> </div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" align=center><IMG src="http://www.romeguide.it/MONUM/ARCHEOL/ara_pacis/vista_01.jpg"></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><o:p><FONT face=Verdana> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Verdana>El arquitecto Richard Meyer comentó que para él fue muy gratificante el haber construido este 'símbolo de paz' y comentó que este trabajo 'hará aún más grande este ciudad'. Por su parte el ex alcalde de Roma y ahora líder del partido La Margarita, Rutelli, afirmó que le parecía 'precioso' y añadió que 'las polémicas siempre surgen pero que al final hay que mirar los resultados'.</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Verdana></FONT> </div> <div class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" align=center><IMG src="http://www.romeguide.it/MONUM/ARCHEOL/ara_pacis/vista_03.jpg"></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><o:p><FONT face=Verdana> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Verdana>El Ara Pacis es un monumento conmemorativo ordenado por el Senado en acción de gracias por el regreso del emperador Augusto tras sus victoriosas campañas en Hispania y Galia, y la paz que éste había impuesto. El material utilizado es mármol de Carrara, y lo más destacado es la decoración escultórica que recubre el edificio, sobre todo los frisos laterales, que representan a Augusto, su familia, amigos, magistrados y senadores, componiendo un magnífico conjunto de retratos.</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Verdana></FONT> </div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" align=center><IMG
src="http://www.romeguide.it/MONUM/ARCHEOL/ara_pacis/vista_12.jpg"></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><o:p><FONT face=Verdana> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Verdana>Fuente: C. Giles / Terra Actualidad - Europa Press, 21 de abril de 2006</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT face=Verdana>Enlace: </FONT><A href="http://actualidad.terra.es/internacional/articulo/ara_pacis_roma_842812.htm"><FONT face=Verdana>http://actualidad.terra.es/internacional/articulo/ara_pacis_roma_842812.htm</FONT></A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p><FONT face=Verdana>Fotos: <A href="http://www.romeguide.it/MONUM/ARCHEOL/ara_pacis/ara_pacis.htm">http://www.romeguide.it/MONUM/ARCHEOL/ara_pacis/ara_pacis.htm</A></FONT></o:p></SPAN></div> <div
class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p><FONT face=Verdana></FONT></o:p></SPAN> </div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT face=Verdana>(2) Ara Pacis, a troubled history<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p><FONT face=Verdana> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT face=Verdana>Minimalist 'box' first major modern building since Fascism <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p><FONT
face=Verdana> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Verdana><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">(see main item on site) (ANSA) - </SPAN><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:City><st1:place><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Rome</SPAN></st1:place></st1:City><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">, April 21 - </SPAN><st1:City><st1:place><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Rome</SPAN></st1:place></st1:City><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">'s new home for the Ara Pacis has had a troubled history since award-winning </SPAN><st1:country-region><st1:place><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">US</SPAN></st1:place></st1:country-region><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"> architect Richard Meier won the commission in 1995.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p><FONT face=Verdana> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT face=Verdana>Its early detractors were swatted away by confident former mayor Francesco Rutelli, on a wave of excitement about the stately old lady finally getting a modern addition to its Baroque heritage. But opposition built after Mayor Walter Veltroni replaced Rutelli in 2001, as Silvio Berlusconi's new government took up the baton of protest.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p><FONT face=Verdana> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Verdana><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">One of the fiercest opponents of the design was controversial Italian art historian
Vittorio Sgarbi, who burned a model of Meier's building in the </SPAN><st1:City><st1:place><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Rome</SPAN></st1:place></st1:City><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"> square next to the Ara Pacis.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p><FONT face=Verdana> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT face=Verdana>As culture undersecretary from 2001 to 2003, the flamboyant polemicist threatened hunger strikes, urged art students to bomb the site, and punned that Meier was set on turning the Ara Pacis into a 'bara Pacis' (coffin of peace) .<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p><FONT face=Verdana> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></div> <div
class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Verdana><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">He accused Meier of "knowing </SPAN><st1:City><st1:place><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Rome</SPAN></st1:place></st1:City><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"> the way I know </SPAN><st1:country-region><st1:place><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Tibet</SPAN></st1:place></st1:country-region><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">".<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p><FONT face=Verdana> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT face=Verdana>But Sgarbi, though the most strident, was not alone in opposing the building.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p><FONT face=Verdana> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Verdana><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">A groundswell of protest rose among Italian 'name' architects, who recently cited it as an example of alleged moves to 'Los Angelise' </SPAN><st1:City><st1:place><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Rome</SPAN></st1:place></st1:City><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p><FONT face=Verdana> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT face=Verdana>Others muttered the relatively simple original design has morphed into a grandiose complex eight times bigger than what it is
replacing.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p><FONT face=Verdana> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT face=Verdana>Media critics were split, with some hailing it as a welcome piece of understated modernism in a florid Baroque city, and others as wholly out of step with its surroundings.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p><FONT face=Verdana> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT face=Verdana>The latest threat to the much-tweaked complex came just before Friday's inauguration, when rightwing mayoral candidate Gianni Alemanno pledged to rip it down and replace it with something
like the simple, glass Fascist-era showcase it supplanted.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p><FONT face=Verdana> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT face=Verdana>Ordinary Romans had no trouble saying what they thought about the project right from the start.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p><FONT face=Verdana> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT face=Verdana>Even when it was in its infancy, and the Meier 'box' could only be glimpsed through corrugated iron sheets and scaffolding, they smeared the site with graffiti calling it a phonebox, gas station and "cesso" - the most
vulgar Italian word for toilet.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p><FONT face=Verdana> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Verdana>Fuente: © Copyright ANSA. 21 de abril de 2006<o:p></o:p></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT face=Verdana>Enlace: </FONT><A href="http://ansa.it/main/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2006-04-21_1215036.html"><FONT face=Verdana>http://ansa.it/main/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2006-04-21_1215036.html</FONT></A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p><FONT face=Verdana> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT face=Verdana>(3) Ara
Pacis home unveiled<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p><FONT face=Verdana> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT face=Verdana>Controversial Meier work houses Augustus peace symbol <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Verdana><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">(ANSA) - </SPAN><st1:City><st1:place><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Rome</SPAN></st1:place></st1:City><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">, April 21 - A new home for the </SPAN><st1:place><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Roman Empire</SPAN></st1:place><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">'s most famous peace symbol was unveiled on Friday after a turbulent seven years of building, polemics
and alterations .<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p><FONT face=Verdana> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Verdana><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">"We are giving the Ara Pacis back to the citizens of </SPAN><st1:City><st1:place><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Rome</SPAN></st1:place></st1:City><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">, at once an ancient and modern monument," said Rome Mayor Walter Veltroni, who has championed </SPAN><st1:country-region><st1:place><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">US</SPAN></st1:place></st1:country-region><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"> architect Richard Meier's ultramodern showcase since his election as mayor five years ago .<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm
0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p><FONT face=Verdana> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Verdana><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Speaking on </SPAN><st1:City><st1:place><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Rome</SPAN></st1:place></st1:City><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">'s traditional 'birthday' - the 2,759th anniversary of its mythical foundation - the centre-left mayor promised work to "integrate" the building into its surroundings .<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p><FONT face=Verdana> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Verdana><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Meier said he was "delighted" to have finally completed the project - </SPAN><st1:City><st1:place><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Rome</SPAN></st1:place></st1:City><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">'s first piece of modern architecture since Fascist days - for "such a great, grand city" .<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p><FONT face=Verdana> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT face=Verdana>"I hope that the people who come here will get a sense of peace and serenity," he added .<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p><FONT face=Verdana> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT face=Verdana>Media crews from all over the world snapped away as Veltroni
cut the ribbon, while in the background a group of rightwing National Alliance (AN) party protesters waved Italian and black flags. The building has still to be completed with an indoor auditorium and a fountain, expected to be finished in a matter of months .<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p><FONT face=Verdana> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Verdana><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">But it is already facing its latest threat, from the AN candidate to run </SPAN><st1:City><st1:place><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Rome</SPAN></st1:place></st1:City><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"> .<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p><FONT
face=Verdana> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT face=Verdana>Gianni Alemanno wants to dismantle the building, put it in the Roman outskirts and replace it with something more like the simple, glass Fascist-era showcase it supplanted .<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p><FONT face=Verdana> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT face=Verdana>Veltroni's camp has blasted Alemanno's "extremist" and "absurd" proposal .<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p><FONT face=Verdana> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT face=Verdana>But the cultural heritage body Italia Nostra came out with a fresh denunciation of the "inappropriate" work .<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p><FONT face=Verdana> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT face=Verdana>Meier's design, the first piece of modern architecture in Rome's historic centre since Fascist days, has had to be changed several times since Meier won the contract in 1995 - six years before Veltroni's election .<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p><FONT face=Verdana> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Verdana><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB">Earlier this year, in the latest change, Meier said he was happy to put a piece of old </SPAN><st1:City><st1:place><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Rome</SPAN></st1:place></st1:City><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"> into the ultramodern site - a move some saw as a sop to critics .<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p><FONT face=Verdana> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT face=Verdana>Meier was also "delighted" with Veltroni's announcement of an international competition for projects to integrate the Ara Pacis with the surrounding square .<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p><FONT face=Verdana> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></div> <div
class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Verdana><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">The final version of the building has a museum, auditorium, restaurant, bar, 300-seater theatre and underpass leading to the </SPAN><st1:place><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Tiber</SPAN></st1:place><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"> .<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p><FONT face=Verdana> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT face=Verdana>To give old-style 'distinction' to the site, Meier has also added a grand travertine entrance stairway and a Roman-style monolith pointing towards Augustus's ancient Roman 'meridian', the point in the old Camp of Mars - now near the premier's office - where legions had to lay down arms if they
were to be allowed into the city .<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p><FONT face=Verdana> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Verdana><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">A recipient of architecture's prime laurel, the Pritzker Prize, in 1985, Meier has been mentioned in the same breath as </SPAN><st1:country-region><st1:place><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Britain</SPAN></st1:place></st1:country-region><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">'s Norman Foster and </SPAN><st1:country-region><st1:place><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Italy</SPAN></st1:place></st1:country-region><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">'s Renzo Piano, the high priests of modernism .<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p><FONT face=Verdana> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Verdana><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">His credits include the </SPAN><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Getty</SPAN></st1:PlaceName><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"> </SPAN><st1:PlaceType><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Center</SPAN></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"> in </SPAN><st1:City><st1:place><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Los Angeles</SPAN></st1:place></st1:City><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">, </SPAN><st1:City><st1:place><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Barcelona</SPAN></st1:place></st1:City><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">'s </SPAN><st1:place><st1:PlaceType><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Museum</SPAN></st1:PlaceType><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"> of </SPAN><st1:PlaceName><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Contemporary Art</SPAN></st1:PlaceName></st1:place><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"> and </SPAN><st1:place><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Frankfurt</SPAN></st1:place><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">'s Museum of the Arts .<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p><FONT face=Verdana> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Verdana><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">The altar was commissioned in 13 BCE to celebrate peace throughout the </SPAN><st1:place><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Roman Empire</SPAN></st1:place><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB"> .<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p><FONT face=Verdana> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT face=Verdana>It was completed in 9 BCE, 23 years before Augustus's death at the age of 76 in 14 CE (AD) .<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p><FONT face=Verdana> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT face=Verdana>The architectural hub of Ancient Rome, circled by a bas relief of a procession of peace showing Aeneas, the Earth, Italy and Rome, it marked the first emperor's victorious return from Spain and Gaul and celebrated the peace he had restored to the empire
.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p><FONT face=Verdana></FONT></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p><FONT face=Verdana> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Verdana><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">According to a tradition launched by Roman writers, </SPAN><st1:City><st1:place><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Rome</SPAN></st1:place></st1:City><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"> was founded by </SPAN><st1:City><st1:place><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Romulus</SPAN></st1:place></st1:City><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">, a descendant of the Trojan hero Aeneas, in 753 BCE .<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm
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