Word: architectes
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...College announced the final architect for the campus permanent pub yesterday, Miller Dyer Spears (MDS), which is recognized for innovative planning techniques. The transformation of Loker Commons into the permanent pub is slated to begin in June. MDS will replace architecture firm Offie Space dA, which ran the pub’s design feasibility study. Zachary A Corker ’04, who was hired this year as project manager of Loker Commons planning and program development, said that he’s excited about working with the new architects. “They are some cool cats. They really...
JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT you'd had enough of Lucite, architect Frank Gehry and Swiss furniture-design firm Vitra have teamed up to reissue Gehry's iconic 1972 Easy Edges collection of cardboard furniture. Included in the group are the Wiggle Side Chair and Low Table Set, above, both of which will be available in white, fluorescent green, orange lacquer and the original cardboard. Gehry has also added a new piece: Block, a solid cube of cardboard with colorfully painted sides. The collection will be available exclusively at Vitra's New York City and San Francisco stores. Prices range from...
Bohemian Modern: Living in Silver Lake (Regan Books) Since the 1970s, the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles has been the funky alternative to West Hollywood. Architect Barbara Bestor includes beautiful photographs of local establishments like Sunset Junction, Atwater and Echo Park...
...would turn off by themselves. And the structure itself would be built using predominantly recycled materials. In April, the Hearst Corporation's Manhattan employees will begin to move into such a place: their new headquarters will be New York City's most environmentally friendly skyscraper. The architect is Norman Foster, famed for the Millau viaduct in southern France and London's Swiss Re building. Hearst Tower, his debut large U.S. project, is the first office building in New York City to garner a gold rating from the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design scheme...
According to the Pentagon, al-Qahtani admitted that he had been sent to the U.S. by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, architect of the 9/11 attacks, and that he had met bin Laden on several occasions. Al-Qahtani also confirmed that he had received terrorist instruction at two al-Qaeda training camps and met with numerous senior al-Qaeda leaders. Says the Pentagon's Whitman: "The record clearly shows that al-Qahtani is a dangerous individual who should be held to account for his acts of terrorism...