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Crafted out of materials like black gold, pernambuco wood and cacholong stone, iconic architect Frank Gehry's first-ever jewelry collection for Tiffany draws on his childhood memories as well as structural elements from his renowned buildings. The Torque cuffs, below, are modeled on his signature curved and twisted lines. Gehry says that for him jewelry was not a big leap of imagination: "The impulse is always the same?to discover new forms that have a natural flow and a relevance to contemporary life...
...funny thing about houses. People who have the means to commission an architect-designed home might be expected to care about issues other than big floor plans and marble countertops. For instance, they might be expected to care about whether their new place increased our dependence on fossil fuels or used wood from destructively clear-cut forests. And if altruistic motives don't move them much, they certainly might care about the harm to themselves and their families from homebuilding materials that emit toxic chemicals into the air of their nice living rooms. Could it be that one reason those...
...clients more likely to insist on a green house are people who care about nature and who want something more appealing to the eye than a tract house with a few solar panels slapped on top. That would describe the couple who commissioned Nathan Good, an architect based in Salem, Ore., to design their weekend home in Cannon Beach, a small town on that state's northern coast. The clients, who prefer not to be identified by name, have a long history as advocates for environmental awareness. After losing their weekend cabin in a fire, they began to envision...
Oscar Niemeyer: Houses (Rizzoli) Alan Hess celebrates the work of the Brazilian architect with Alan Weintraub's photographs of houses designed by Oscar Niemeyer in his home city of Brasília. Some featured are those of Marco Antonio Amaral Rezende, Flavio Marcilio and Sebastião Camargo...
...urgency of stem cell research has propelled Harvard’s plans across the river. University officials said last week that Harvard intends to seek permission from Boston by the end of April to build its new science center on property formerly leased by Channel 2. The architect of the new building, Stefan Behnisch, will attend next week’s Allston Task Force meeting to talk to residents about designs. The University hopes to break ground on the building in 2007.“I think we have a number of challenges: that we are able to convince people...