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SITE's first real commission was the renovation of a Best Products Co. showroom in Richmond in 1971. Best Products is the largest U.S. catalogue showroom merchandiser, with a network of sales outlets that are essentially windowless brick boxes. In Richmond, SITE added a new façade that incongruously and dramatically seemed to be peeling...
Without repeating itself, the SITE team subsequently designed equally startling Best Products showrooms all over suburbia. Outside Houston, their building seems to be collapsing, a cascade of brick tumbling onto the front entrance. Near Miami, the Best Products showroom façade seems ripped to pieces, and the fragments are surrealistically placed in front of one another like stage wings. There is a ten-foot space between each of the freestanding elements: doorways, a canopy over the sidewalk, a stripped, façadeless structure. And in Richmond a second showroom is built in segments amid a stand of trees, giving...
...direction and control. That is the image that the Soviet leadership has long tried to project to friends and foes alike. But suddenly last week, on the most grandiose of Soviet annual public occasions, there was a gaping hole at the center of Moscow's bureaucratic façade. The image that lingered in Red Square was that of a superpower afflicted by a leader ship crisis of unknown dimensions, and of new prospects of uncertainty in international relations...
...Funk says it will rain today. The countryside hums with farm machinery and insects. Inside, the house smells, the way old houses tend to, moist and rich, as if someone had enclosed a creek bottom. Late summer motes settle gently on the esoteric acquisitions of the once famous George Ade. Here a Grecian urn, there a Waterford crystal punch bowl that, when flicked crisply with a fingernail, keeps ringing clearly long after the flicker has left the room...
...tour continues, Funk, 63 and silver-haired, allows that he never met Ade, who died in 1944, but that he used to sneak a nighttime swim in the Ade swimming pool. In the study, the guide explains that 20 years ago the only occupants of this house, where Will Rogers had slept and where two generations of old soldiers-Teddy Roosevelt and Douglas MacArthur among them-had come to pay respects, were raccoons and bees, them and the prairie winds. Ade had never married, and the house called Hazelden belonged to Newton County, a caretaker with more important fish...