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...said they will be “digging down the floors” to create more head room, and they have already knocked down brick walls that were “breaking up the space...
...Begin in the central market, framed by its delicate arches. Pick up some fruit or pungent Eritrean spices and wander through the back lanes toward the Catholic cathedral, an imposing red-brick edifice that dominates the skyline. Nearby Liberation Avenue, Asmara's main street, features the gorgeous Art Deco Cinema Impero and Italian-style cafes where craggy old men sip cappuccinos and smoke cigarettes. My favorite Art Deco building is on the outskirts of town: the fantastic Fiat Tagliero gas station, which has long horizontal overhangs that jut out like giant wings from the central building. It's painted...
...relative unpopularity alone that accounts for our feeling so bereft. More than elsewhere, absence feels wrong here. What we love about Harvard—and what sometimes frustrates us about it—is its immutability. Mass Hall has outlived generations of occupants; passing its stolid red brick on our way to class, we know it will anchor the Yard long after we’ve stopped sending checks to the development office. Commencement, baroque with its Latin and with its officials on horseback, exudes venerability; Harvard planners think in terms of decades and centuries as they limn the details...
...façade will be made entirely of glass, while the other building used mostly brick to create its more sedate Neo-Georgian style...
...says Macuei, the county chairman. In Rumbek, those concerns can wait: what the locals want right now is aid. The World Food Program is fencing off the airstrip, so that planes bearing essential supplies aren't threatened by cows and goats, and building an office and housing complex - with brick this time, not canvas. Says Andrew Gremley, the project's architect: "Permanence is a sign of confidence." And that's something southern Sudan desperately needs...