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...Sagra, Spain Spaniards refer to the crash of their once booming real estate and construction industries as a "crisis of bricks." In La Sagra, they take that phrase literally. Located about 40 miles (65 km) south of Madrid, the clay-rich county produces roughly 30% of Spain's bricks, and boasts the greatest concentration of brick works in Europe. But right now, La Sagra's factories aren't making much of anything. "The warehouses are full," says Carlos Duque, general secretary for the Castilla-La Mancha branch of MCA-UGT, the construction workers' trade union. "They just don't have...
...back. For over a month there were mass funeral pyres around the city. There will be no burning on the island this time. Fires are forbidden. There is a dusk-to-dawn curfew and residents are warned to get shots for tetanus and hepatitis before returning. Downtown, with its brick and ironwork Victorian-era buildings - once dubbed the "Wall Street of the Southwest" - is a ghost town. The only sound is the low howl of dehumidifiers sucking moisture out of bank buildings and churches...
...shiny silver handrails—has a certain sleekness; it’s an Apple product-cum-building. The building’s unscuffed, unmarred, and polished appearance puts the vogue of earthy-colored steel to shame. It’s also a far cry from the weathered red brick to which the Harvard community is so accustomed.Craig Hartman, Design Partner at SOM, San Francisco, and chief designer for the project, says that he remained confident in his sophisticated style throughout the design process, even in initial meetings with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences before the ground was struck...
Campus legend holds that the original $3.5 million Widener bequest came with two notable conditions. First, not a brick may be moved or altered on the façade of the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library. And secondly, so the fate of Harry Widener class of 1907—who drowned when the Titanic sank in 1912—would never befall another Harvard graduate, every student would have to pass a swim test...
...students walking to and from the Barker Center and Lamont Library, there’s relatively little traffic flow on the historic road. A few tourists amble by, pausing briefly to glance at the large white placard sitting atop the Georgian facade of the main entrance of two large, brick buildings. “Harvard Art Museum: Closed in preparation for renovation,” it reads. Since June 30, the Fogg Museum—the oldest of the Harvard Art Museums system—has been on “lock-down” for the purported purpose...