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...those descriptions, I still suggest you at least take a look at this video and try to make some sense of its weirdness. The video follows Whiteman as he takes an escorted tour throughout an office building. Or, at least I think it’s an office building??it could just as likely be a mental ward. Either way, he encounters a room filled with animals, a movie theater showing a screening of an erratic car crash, and a discotheque. To top it all off, the video ends with Whiteman following a flock of flying birds...
Sensitively planned by the architects Leers Weinzapfel—who tend to be quite modernist in their leanings—the 119-year-old building??s façade and vestibule were restored while the theatre itself underwent a drastic modernization. Looking back on the old—the walls are adorned with old playbills and posters advertising events from generations past—the Theatre nevertheless manages to shoehorn in a 270-seat theater with a new sound system, motorized lights, and a stage thrust that also serves as a scenery elevator or a orchestra pit, depending...
Three stories above the basement, the sounds of student artists at work ring out. Someone strikes a piano chord and a roomful of Radcliffe Pitches answer its call. In a nearby office, student assistants copy press releases for upcoming events, and on the building??s sixth and uppermost floor, professional director David R. Gammons ’92 offers criticism to the undergraduate cast of “Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama’s Hung You in the Closet and I’m Feelin?...
...sharing the building with all these other student groups,” Friedman said. “But it’s such a nice place that it should be shared.” Renovations began in April 2005, leaving a few rooms in the building??s front intact but demolishing the rest. Workers also dug underground, adding three new floors to make a total of six. While nostalgic photographs and faded playbills still adorn the building??s halls, the theater is now equipped with state-of-the-art sound and lighting systems as well...
...Harvard cannot be a bastion for innovative thinking in the area of HIV/AIDS prevention and policy, then there is almost no hope for any other place. It’s up to us to escape the jargon and inaction that is ultimately tied to most “awareness-building?? gimmicks. Otherwise, we’re wasting our time...