Word: architectes
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...restore your sense of wonder Portuguese sailor impressed locals with his instrument's capabilities. Marilyn Monroe ran wild with one in Some Like It Hot, British Prime Minister Tony Blair took one on his last summer vacation, and in 1946, British entertainer George Formby incensed South African apartheid architect Daniel Malan by refusing to play his uke for whites-only audiences. However, although the instrument has long been revered in countries such as Germany, Finland and Japan, in Britain it has been considered to be rather silly. It has taken the pluck of the willfully eccentric, 21-year-old Ukulele...
...technology will probably be fully functional soon. But will book buyers warm to the experience? Some who gathered for last week's demonstration at a Manhattan book store remained unconvinced. "When you go to a reading, it's exciting," said architect Anne Lewison, who thought the remote link lacked the same energy. That kind of buzz may be harder to create than the invention itself...
...Butcher of the Balkans; in his cell at the U.N. detention center near the Hague, where he was the first head of state to be prosecuted for genocide; apparently of natural causes. Milosevic, who had heart trouble, had been on trial since 2002 for his alleged role as architect of the 1995 slaughter of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica and other crimes. His decade-long rule over Yugoslavia and Serbia produced four wars, which led to 250,000 deaths and introduced the term ethnic cleansing. Son of a defrocked Orthodox priest and a teacher, Milosevic lost power...
...other thing: the city authorities did not specify what kind of structure they had in mind. That created a very large opening for Jürgen Mayer H., a Berlin-based architect who understands that a solid structure can be a thought balloon. What Mayer, 42, proposed was a series of six voluptuous forms made of high-strength laminated wood that would rise above the plaza like massive mushrooms--or shade trees. Or maybe they're umbrellas. Whatever you think they look like, the Metropol Parasol, as they are officially called, refuses to be one thing--or to serve one purpose...
...much important art in there for it not to be in a place that’s state-of-the-art.”The renovations are set to start just prior to the 2008-2009 school year. The building will be redesigned by Italian architect Renzo Piano, who is best known for the edgy design of Paris’s Centre Georges Pompidou.The most fervent support for the project comes from the Student Friends of Harvard University Art Museums, an undergraduate group which coordinates events with the museums and promotes the museums’ collections. “We?...