Word: architectes
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Moroccans call the nation's postindependence era, from the 1960s to the '80s, the "years of lead," a time when hundreds of political dissidents were jailed or "disappeared." The architect of the repression: longtime Interior Minister Driss Basri, King Hassan II's closest aide. Armed with a vast web of informers, Basri repeatedly quashed popular uprisings in the '80s and '90s. ("I'm not Jesus Christ," he once said. "If someone slaps my right cheek, I do not turn the left.") Fired in 1999 by Hassan's son and successor, Mohammed VI, he died in self-imposed exile in Paris...
...First opened in 1868, the brief of its architect, William Henry Barlow, had been to build the world's fastest and grandest railway station to reflect Britain's international pre-eminence. "St Pancras was symbolic of the history of rail travel in the U.K.," says Ruse. "It was a bygone era of success in rail - both in engineering achievement and architectural brilliance...
...they hadn't been invited to El Bulli by Documenta, the Flögels would have been set back nearly $500 for dinner. When it was over, Franziska, an architect, and Gerhard, a civil engineer, had succumbed to Adrià's peculiar magic. "This is a new way to create taste," said Gerhard. "When you're here, it's clear that it's art." Perhaps. But by the time the Flögels worked their way through those 33 dishes, such abstract questions faded into insignificance. They filed out after midnight with childlike smiles of wonder on their faces. For Adrià, their response...
...Taqui, editor of Dubai's Architecture Plus magazine, argues that the Burj Dubai's height and its location adjoining a busy shopping mall puts it at odds with its environment. "Burj Dubai is iconic, it's great, it does what it's trying to do," says Taqui, himself the architect of Dubai's minimalist Al Maha Desert Resort & Spa. "What it does for Dubai and how it evolves Dubai is a different question altogether. We're building a visionary city, but where's the vision in all this...
...meantime, individual gardeners need to become educated consumers. Landscape architect Smith suggests that you begin by checking the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture website for state-by-state listings of invasives. He also recommends that you do your research before you buy: "If you ask trained horticultural staff about local alternatives to invasive species and they can't answer your questions, go elsewhere...