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...costume designer Michael Scott, both in Bonn, where Del Monaco is artistic director, and on the international circuit. Boccanegra is a triumph of that partnership. The first act's set, again a house and a garden, is closely modeled on Petrarch's villa outside Padua, a mellow, roseate brick with a graceful staircase. To gaze at it is to be transported to the vivid politics of 14th century Genoa...
...coming up with a design that isn't disfigured by post-Modernist hokiness, as is the 1991 Seattle Art Museum, designed by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown. No smirking little "references" to grand architecture done in pasteboard; no one-shot ironies or graphic-design quips. Botta's brick masses occupy their site with authority and dignity, and their striations save the windowless walls from dullness. It might have looked like an art bunker, but Botta avoided this by splitting the mass symmetrically with a protruding skylight: a big cylinder sliced off at a steep angle and faced in bands...
...advent of agriculture upset the balance of nature, creating food & surpluses. And the practice of fattening animals for slaughter consolidated those surpluses into the dietary equivalent of a gold brick: the thick juicy steak, marbled with...
Holworthy stands at the north end of the Yard, a barren and faceless brick slab. Its exterior lacks the subtle intricacies of the detailed buildings around it. What it does boast is a prime location, next to the main thoroughfare to the Science Center and Memorial Hall...
Finally, he broke through the five layers of brick from the outside, and the sunlight rushed inside. It illuminated the ghastly contents of a furnace...