Word: angular
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...partly because of concerns that Abraham's design was too challenging for an official building. They had a point. The design is severe and saw-toothed, with nothing Sound of Music about it, unless the music you have in mind is Schoenberg. It harks back instead to the angular daring of Adolf Loos and Otto Wagner, the great figures of Viennese modernism, and even further, to the first principles of building that modernism rediscovered. "I try to connect to the origins of architecture," says Abraham. "Digging a hole, making a mound...
...concrete. Walking across an open terrace, up the steps onto the platform and under a wide, low-ceiling tunnel gives way to the space which is walled in by sheets of glass and ringed by two sets of balconies at the second and fourth floors. It is an austere, angular setting...
Lyons is an architect's textbook, where the oldest Roman theater in France (circa 1st century B.C.) is only a fossil's throw from a vast urban-renewal project that will include a science museum by Austrian architects Coop Himmelblau - a dissonantly angular 21st century "crystal cloud" intended to "float" 12 m above the ground...
Garrett J. Grolemund ’03 is a psychology concentrator in Winthrop House. Every time he publishes a cartoon, Thomas Nast rolls over in his grave. Soon the resulting angular momentum will dislodge Earth from its orbit, making Boston as warm as Garrett’s home in sunny Florida. Garrett also enjoys hate mail and was saddened by how little of it he received during his debut semester with The Harvard Crimson...
...distinguish between them (at least for the uninitiated): The album is a barrage of dentist-drill distorted guitars marshalled by driving drums that border on militaristic. Yet Mercedes seldom stumble onto anything resembling a decent guitar hook, and attempt to make up for that fact with raucousness and occasional angular breaks. They are bolstered by a very solid, if not particularly imaginative rhythm section, who maintain the energy without which the album would be one long dirge...