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...fourth most abundant metal in the earth's crust, titanium surely deserves the attention it is enjoying. The birth of titanium cool probably started in 1997, when architect Frank Gehry used it in abundance for the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. Until then, the metal had been largely under cover. During the cold war, it was used primarily to build aircraft. When this need abated, the titanium industry promoted its other uses. Up to four times as strong as steel and half the weight, titanium is ideal for tennis rackets and skis. More cost-efficient ways to cut the metal...
...created the Louvre's pyramids and Hong Kong's sleek Bank of China building, that tradition is rooted at 25 Huangpi South Road, where five generations of the Pei family have made their home since 1911. During his student years in that rollicking city, the budding architect visited the graceful three-story mansion often and drew inspiration from its French colonial touches and lush gardens. "This house holds my family's soul," says Pei's cousin Bei Nianzheng, who was born in the house in 1956 and still lives there. "But now the government says they will tear it down...
Last week, the University revealed its proposal for a new building on Mt. Auburn St. that will house the main offices of the Harvard University libraries. However, when we look at the model presented by award-winning Viennese architect Hans Hollein, all we can do is stare, agog and open-mouthed, with one burning question in mind...
DIED. ROSALIE GWATHMEY, 92, photographer of Southern black life and mother of the architect Charles Gwathmey; in Amagansett, N.Y. In the 1940s, Gwathmey chronicled the communities around her hometown of Charlotte, N.C. In 1951 she and a group of her New York colleagues, including Dorothea Lange and Berenice Abbott, were deemed subversive, and in 1955, frustrated by the inhospitable atmosphere, she threw out her negatives and walked away from her craft. For the rest of her life, Gwathmey and the photographic community rarely celebrated her work, until a 1994 show revived interest in her photographs of everyday Southern life...
...think it's inappropriate," she said in a post-meeting interview. "The fact that Harvard brought a prize-winning architect from Vienna is not important from our point of view...