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PHUKET Hotel Unwind along a secluded stretch of Thailand's Mai Khao Beach at the new Anantara Resort & Spa, designed by famed architect and landscape artist Bill Bensley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Calendar | 10/6/2008 | See Source »

Given that history, it is all the more puzzling that just a few months later, Rothko would agree to provide work for a restaurant in the newly completed Seagram Building. The commission came by way of Philip Johnson, the American architect and peerless cultural middleman, who had collaborated on the design of the Four Seasons and had also arranged for New York's Museum of Modern Art to buy its first Rothko. So it may have been partly out of gratitude that Rothko agreed to a project that was in every way wrong for him. The Four Seasons was glittering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mark Rothko: Art of Darkness | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

...like the old MGM lot back when they used to shoot five pictures at one time. Caterers hauling pumpkins are brushing past construction workers sweeping out the man-made rain forest. Divers in wet suits are hauling themselves out of the coral-reef tank. And Renzo Piano, the Italian architect who is very good at finding order in chaotic situations, looks pleased...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: King of the Hill | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

This would not have been the position most people would have predicted for Piano in 1977, when he became suddenly famous for one of the funniest buildings of all time. The Georges Pompidou Center in Paris, which he co-designed with the British architect Richard Rogers, is a museum that's been disemboweled, its brightly colored ventilation tubes, pipes and escalator draped along the exterior in a riot of externalized intestines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: King of the Hill | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

...sacrifice as a muscle that made young nations strong. Banks were like gyms for the soul: the first savings banks in Boston and New York were organized as charities, where "humble journeymen" could exercise good judgment, store their money and not be tempted to waste it on drink. Architect Louis Sullivan carved the word THRIFT over the door of his "jewel box" bank nearly a century ago, for it was private virtue that made public prosperity possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Real Patriots Don't Spend | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

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