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...NATIONALE NEDERLANDEN BUILDING: A structure as playful as this deserves a nickname. And Frank Gehry and Croatian-born architect Vladimir Milunic's new building on the banks of the Vltava River in Prague has one. It's called Fred and Ginger, after its twin towers: one flirty and curvilinear, the other solid and upright. The staggered windows and rippled riverfront facade reflect the adjacent row houses even as the building stands apart from the rest of the city. Using some local construction techniques combined with sophisticated three-dimensional computer modeling, the two architects maintained consistency with the surrounding buildings...
...Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas and Canadian graphic designer Bruce Mau collaborated to create this definitive anti-coffee-table book, an eccentric and exhaustive assemblage of Koolhaas' building designs, jottings and musings. It even has pages of charts showing how his practice has fared over the years. It was the first book ever to have a launch party at New York City's Museum of Modern Art. And no wonder. Squat, garishly silver and with photos that look more like they were taken for a home photo album than an architectural manifesto, it's designed to be dipped into, flicked through...
...only to falter when Democrats showed even less enthusiasm for him than Republicans did. Mitchell may also owe his eclipse to Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott, who went to his friend Bill just when the deal seemed done to make a strong pitch for Richard Holbrooke, the ambitious architect of the Dayton accords. Clinton didn't care that Holbrooke would break a lot of careers and egos over at Foggy Bottom, but he knew that Lake and Holbrooke despised each other and would be constantly sniping. Meanwhile, women's groups, incensed at a remark leaked by a White House...
...April, Harvard bowed to pressure from interest groups and agreed to maintain protected status for about 78 of its approximately 700 tenants until they move or earn more than the annual income cut-off, according to Washington Taylor, a local architect and private homeowner in Cambridge involved with the campaign...
...central issue for now should not be what type of building should be built but whether we are willing to give up one of the last wooden framed structures in Harvard Square," said Matthew Cohen, an architect and Cambridge resident...