Word: architectes
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Renting one of these houses can be an intimate way to get to know the city, to see a side of it that can't be found on the noisy pool deck of a chain hotel. An expansive three-bedroom house designed by local architect William Cody in 1964 has a demure flat-roof-and-steel-beam structure that pays homage to the uncomplicated designs of German-born architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. But the interiors are straight-up '60s opulent: there are travertine walls and an arena-size master bathroom clad entirely in Carrara marble...
...address a lot of pressing urban issues," says John Bela, a landscape architect who is designing the garden at San Francisco's city hall. He's also working with a group called SF Victory Gardens 2008+ to coordinate a backyard-garden program aimed at increasing access to healthier food among lower-income families...
...reconstructing the city (more than 300 times as much as it spent on rural health care for the entire nation in 2006) raises terrible questions about what costs are legitimate in the pursuit of social and sporting acknowledgment. Beijing even invited Albert Speer, the son of Hitler's architect, to help design a major axis...
...Eiffel Tower was detested by half the population of Paris when it was built.' ROCCO YIM, Hong Kong architect, defending the new China Central Television building in Beijing, dubbed the "twisted doughnut...
...Middle East sounds eerily familiar, and the British Museum builds on this geopolitical relevance in "Hadrian: Empire and Conflict," a fascinating study of the Roman ruler. Drawn from 11 countries, the 170 objects on display provide a remarkably layered portrait of Hadrian as a skilled statesman, an amateur architect and an unabashed homosexual - a man far more dynamic and complex than his idealized busts suggest...