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...With seven restaurants and bars, dining options are plentiful for a development of relatively modest size. Try the lovely Sibon, a 13-seat Japanese kushiage, or skewer restaurant. Its owner, Masaki Miyake, was Amara Sanctuary's architect. His decision to build the resort around century-old trees accounts for the lush ambiance and the feeling that, in tiny Singapore, one really has traveled somewhere. Tourists after an alternative to the usual downtown hotels, as well as Singaporeans looking for a domestic break, will thank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Confined to Barracks | 6/7/2007 | See Source »

...Pierce County, Wash., is obvious and abundant, a gorgeous canvas of mountain, sea and sky. As you begin to walk the course, a second natural element makes its presence known: the wind. It swirls and dips and then slaps you sideways, an "invisible hazard," as the course's architect, Robert Trent Jones Jr., likes to call it, mimicking the roughness of the stubbly Van Gogh--like landscape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teeing Up a New Game | 6/7/2007 | See Source »

That vibrant centrality of Allston is a lot harder to imagine than commissioning a renowned architect or routing the shuttle bus for 12-minute pickup intervals. Making Allston a center, not an annex, is going to be exceedingly hard—there is no magic bullet. But one foundational—not decorative—element of Allston (and therefore of Harvard) ought to be the arts alongside the sciences. A science park with dorms and high-end retail shops is not enough; my utopia Allston includes that fabulous science, the dorms and shops—alongside a cacophony...

Author: By Peter L. Galison | Title: Allston Dreams | 6/7/2007 | See Source »

...built into every design decision, from the roads to the heating and cooling to the pedestrian walkways. The urban grain of one of America’s oldest cities will be respected, and the plan for open space will embrace the green vision of famed 19th century landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted. As the Allston Initiative advances, the University orientation will lean more toward a campus with the Charles River running through its center, a natural and scenic jewel in the urban landscape for the enjoyment...

Author: By Christopher M. Gordon | Title: The Promises of Harvard’s Growth in Allston | 6/7/2007 | See Source »

...Trade Center project didn't work out as planned. The developer who held the lease on the Twin Towers had ideas of his own. He brought in another architect, David Childs of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, an outfit famous for providing corporations with prestige headquarters, like the Sears Tower and John Hancock Building in Chicago, that are still within their aesthetic comfort zone. For a while Childs and Libeskind collaborated on the Freedom Tower, but the final design, which is now in the first stages of construction, was so unlike Libeskind's original vision that he removed his name from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Star Burst | 5/31/2007 | See Source »

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