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Another happy union of old and new is celebrated at the Mount Vernon Church condominiums in Boston, designed by Graham Gund Associates. Gund made the ruins of a burned-out neo-Romanesque church the framework for modern brick apartment houses. While old and new each maintains its integrity, the two combine in one unique, exciting yet harmonious structure...
Plaintiffs in the case claim, however, that PDID agents not only infiltrated law-abiding groups but often acted as provocateurs. They say, for example, that an undercover officer who joined the Coalition Against Police Abuse tried without success to get members to throw a brick through a police-station window during a demonstration in San Pedro. Observes Linda Valentino, who in 1977 helped organize the Citizens' Commission on Police Repression: "After these things started coming out, people were afraid to get involved. The police hurt a lot of groups...
SITE's first real commission was the renovation of a Best Products Co. showroom in Richmond in 1971. Best Products is the largest U.S. catalogue showroom merchandiser, with a network of sales outlets that are essentially windowless brick boxes. In Richmond, SITE added a new façade that incongruously and dramatically seemed to be peeling...
Without repeating itself, the SITE team subsequently designed equally startling Best Products showrooms all over suburbia. Outside Houston, their building seems to be collapsing, a cascade of brick tumbling onto the front entrance. Near Miami, the Best Products showroom façade seems ripped to pieces, and the fragments are surrealistically placed in front of one another like stage wings. There is a ten-foot space between each of the freestanding elements: doorways, a canopy over the sidewalk, a stripped, façadeless structure. And in Richmond a second showroom is built in segments amid a stand of trees, giving...
...developer. The building will serve various commercial purposes, including housing a kosher restaurant, but it will also have a roof garden and spaces for religious festivities. As Wines designed it, PAZ (the name comes from the initials of the three principals in the development company) will resemble a ruined brick shell brought to life by a new glass enclosure. Two existing ornate portals will be replicated to provide four entrances, an allusion to the house of the patriarch Abraham as described in rabbinic writings. Explains Wines: "The design symbolizes the blend of cultures as well as the contrasts of decay...