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...City. Perched high above the throngs of Orchard Road, these[an error occurred while processing this directive] palatial aeries can be expanded from one to four bedrooms if you're traveling with an entourage of, say, Cabinet Ministers, groupies or bodyguards. The suites were conceived by Santa Monica?based architect and designer Beatrice Girelli to a contemporary brief - furnishings are deliberately understated, and the color palette kept to a soothing selection of cream, chocolate and olive...
...Don’t let these candy-ass names fool you, though. Their blood-curdling cries will strike fear into the hearts of even the bravest Sunday stroller. The graves at Mt. Auburn provide an architectural counterpoint to its natural fall beauty. The tombstone of Charles Bulfinch—architect of such early 19th century Federal-style landmarks as the U.S. Capitol, Faneuil Hall, and Harvard’s own University Hall—is stunning. Set along luminous Bellwort Path, Bulfinch rests beneath a giant, ornate vase. “Graduated at Harvard” are the only words...
Prospective elder-cohousing residents, attracted by newspaper ads or word of mouth, meet with a developer, architect, banks and other financing agencies before ground is broken to come up with a project to fit the personality of the group. They get to know one another through regular meetings as the project develops. Impatient or authoritarian types tend to drop out because it takes about two years to complete a project and all decisions and rules for the community are by consensus. New members can jump in at any time, even after the project is built, but must pledge to abide...
...extends to the boss's pay. Though the business house carries his name, Ratan Tata merely draws a salary from Tata Sons. And while hardly poor, he takes personal modesty seriously. Tall, guarded and retaining the outsider's accent he picked up in an earlier life as a trainee architect in the U.S., he is famously private. He lives with his two German shepherds, Tito and Tango, in the same second-floor apartment in Bombay that he has kept for 20 years. He is one floor below his stepmother, and neighbors say they have never known him to throw...
...many Harvard students have put Widener’s isolated stacks to non-academic use, one might imagine they were built for baby-making. But Widener’s architect has nothing on the designers of Leverett House, who may have managed to incorporate sex into each one of the windows in Leverett’s McKinlock Hall. It doesn’t take a sexually frustrated freshman to recognize the arrow-headed tip and vague double circles at the bottom. The centerpiece of each window’s metal grate appears phallic shaped (see photo...