Word: archways
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...Link's supple shape was what initiallyattracted this subjective--nay, thrilled--reporterto the scene. A deep archway is cut into therectangular, three-story building's center,allowing pedestrians unhindered access to thescience complex beyond and a glimpse into thelaboratories within. The passageway is long andwide and lined with glass. "Oxford Street is amajor circulation space," says Jim Collins, Jr.,the principal architect. "It seemed inappropriateto build a building that would wall off that wholelength...
...there are suddenly a remarkable number of books very much like them -- do not reach such underage readers by subterfuge or stealth. Adolescents now constitute a booming niche market for the peddling of published gore and violence. "Teens' interests go in cycles," says Patricia MacDonald, editorial director of Archway Paperbacks, an imprint of Pocket Books and a major player in the teen-horror field. "In the '70s it was problem novels, the disease of the week. Then it was romance novels, soap operas like Sweet Valley High and Sweet Dreams. In the '90s it's the thrillers." Hardly a blip...
Coming the other way, legally, a half-mile-long column of oil tankers stream beneath a giant portrait of Saddam that marks an archway over the desert border. Each day they bring 50,000 bbl. of cut-rate fuel to Amman to sustain the stumbling economy of Jordan...
...task force also endorsed architecturalchanges that Harvard Real Estate is consideringfor the Holyoke Center area. The report said"special attention" should be given to closing theHolyoke archway at night...
...that postmodernism has abandoned its original sense of humor in favor of just-so classicism, it is Eisenman who is left to build in the architectural jokes: the disintegrating ersatz archway and cartoony castellated brick towers around the perimeter of Wexner (alluding to an old armory on the site that was razed in 1958); the curious floor-to-chest-height windows in the top-floor offices; the short, folly stairway that goes nowhere; or the boatlike carbuncle on top of the building with no practical function whatsoever...