Mr. Mayne does not deal in dubious recall or venture into questionable aesthetic quagmires.

WSJ: Cooper Union's New Building, at 41 Cooper Square | By WSJ Architecture Critic Ada Louis Huxtable

Mayne-Nicholls also praised plans to have each World Cup squad hosted by one of England's professional clubs.

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"Nick Clegg said that football is the glue that brings the country together, " said Mayne-Nicholls, president of the Chilean football federation.

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"We are talking about the gas supply of Ukraine, " says Tom Mayne, a researcher for Global Witness, a London-based non-governmental organization that tracks corruption.

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To this native New Yorker who has watched the city evolve over decades and treasures its unrelenting diversity, Mr. Mayne has got it just right.

WSJ: Cooper Union's New Building, at 41 Cooper Square | By WSJ Architecture Critic Ada Louis Huxtable

Mr. Mayne is a gifted, experimental, unconventional architect who designs attention-getting structures such as the San Francisco Federal Building and the Caltrans headquarters in Los Angeles.

WSJ: Cooper Union's New Building, at 41 Cooper Square | By WSJ Architecture Critic Ada Louis Huxtable