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PEOPLE & ARTS Thursday 5 March 2020
This is a Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015 file photo of actor Daniel
Craig poses for the media as he arrives for the German pre-
miere of the James Bond movie 'Spectre' in Berlin, Germany.
Associated Press
James Bond film
release pushed back 7
months due to virus
LINDSEY BAHR theatrical marketplace in
AP Film Writer the decision to delay the In this May 23, 2018 file photo, Biennale International Architecture exhibition curators Yvonne Far-
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The release of the film. "No Time rell, left, and Shelley McNamara appear in Venice, Italy.
release of the James Bond To Die" will now hit theaters Associated Press
film "No Time To Die" has in the U.K. on Nov. 12 and
been pushed back several worldwide on Nov. 25. Irish architects Farrell,
months because of global The Bond films make a sig-
concerns about coronavi- nificant portion of their
rus. profits from internation- McNamara win Pritzker Prize
MGM, Universal and pro- al markets. The last film,
ducers Michael G. Wil- "Spectre," made over $679
son and Barbara Broc- million from overseas the- By JOCELYN NOVECK sion, they are also beacons of, something that's added
coli announced on Twitter aters in 2015 with over $84 NEW YORK (AP) — Irish ar- to others as they forge their by the imaginative and
Wednesday that the film million of that total coming chitects Yvonne Farrell and exemplary professional creative skills of what the
would be pushed back from China. Shelley McNamara have path." architecture profession
from its April release to No- Concerns had already been awarded the 2020 In a telephone interview can bring."
vember 2020. been brewing around the Pritzker Architecture Prize from Dublin, Farrell and Mc- "We say sometimes that
The announcement cited imminent release and the for "consistent service to Namara described to The we're like scientists of
consideration of the global global outbreak. q humanity as evidenced Associated Press how they space," she added in the
by a body of built work," began their collaboration interview. When conceiv-
Former CNN anchor and for leading the way for as early as 1969, when they ing a project for a client,
met as architecture stu-
she said, "We try and un-
women in a male-dominat-
Bobbie Battista dies ed profession. dents. "We learned a lot derstand your aspiration
The announcement was from each other," McNa-
functionally but also in
of cancer at age 67 made Tuesday by Tom mara said. "We grew to- terms of your dream, or
Pritzker, chairman of The gether in college."
your symbolism. We find a
Hyatt Foundation, which Even now, she said, af- story in each project."
Associated Press cut her earthly bonds and sponsors the award, con- ter decades in the field, The jury's citation singled
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bob- is now in peace." sidered the highest honor "What's interesting is we out projects like the Urban
bie Battista, who was During her 1981-2001 ca- in architecture. always feel like we're start- Institute of Ireland, a 2002
among the original an- reer with the cable news The jury citation noted that ing. With architecture, you building that "employs
chors for CNN Headline company, Battista an- the pair, who co-founded always feel like you get what the architects call a
News and hosted CNN's chored coverage of major their Dublin-based Grafton younger as you get older. 'crafted skin' to create a
"TalkBack Live," has died. events including the Chal- Architects in 1978, "have You're continually being visually interesting building
She was 67. lenger space shuttle explo- consistently and unhesi- challenged and continual- through changes in materi-
Battista died Tuesday after sion, the attempted assassi- tatingly pursued the high- ly challenging yourself. You als responding to openings,
a four-year battle with cer- nation of President Ronald est quality of architecture never sit back and say 'OK, folds, needs for shade and
vical cancer, family spokes- Reagan and the Gulf War. for the specific location in I've done that.'" other concerns," while also
woman Wendy Guarisco When she moved from which it was to be built, the The architects have col- creating an efficient, sus-
told CNN. CNN Headline News to functions it would house laborated on many proj- tainable building.
"Bobbie was the consum- CNN in 1988, she anchored and especially for the ects in their home country, It also cited university build-
mate trooper in her strug- shows that included "CNN people who would inhabit but also have won com- ings in Peru and in Italy,
gle with cancer, she was NewsHour." and use their buildings and missions in locales like Peru, saying the architects "have
courageous and fearless in During Battista's early ca- spaces." Italy and France. achieved a human scale
her battle and thoughtful reer, she worked as a local It added: "They have an Farrell said the two believe through the composition of
for all the others in her life news anchor and produc- oeuvre that includes nu- that "architecture is both a spaces and volumes of dif-
even as she fought through er for WRAL-TV in Raleigh, merous educational build- business and an art." ferent sizes. The dialogues
the pain," Battista's hus- North Carolina. In 1981, she ings, housing and cultural "In each project," she said, they create between
band John Brimelow said was the writer and assistant and civic institutions. Pio- "there is the capacity to buildings and surroundings
in a statement on Tues- producer for the Peabody neers in a field that has tra- find something that is an demonstrate a new appre-
day. "My dear partner of Award-winning documen- ditionally been and still is addition to what the client ciation of both their works
25 years of marriage has tary "Fed up with Fear."q a male-dominated profes- originally maybe dreamed and place."q