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...story Television Cultural Center, which was supposed to house the spiffy Beijing Mandarin Oriental, was designed by renowned Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, who intended to match the aesthetics of the adjacent China Central Television headquarters. Amidst the Olympics mania in 2004, the Chinese government hired Koolhaas’s firm to design a new headquarters for CCTV. The massive six-million-square-foot complex that resulted, which includes the Television Cultural Center, came to be known as “Zhichuang,” or “knowledge window.” With two leaning towers connected...
...beyond the North Yard construction at the Harvard Law School. The abandoned pizzeria shared the one-story retail building—owned by Harvard Real Estate—with four other businesses: the boutique “Looks,” the manicure shop Fancy Fingers, Crimson Cleaners, and Central Barber Shop. “Looks” recently moved to Harvard Square, while manicure shop Fancy Fingers and Crimson Cleaners are now closed but have not relocated. Only Central Barber Shop remains open. Mary-Ita O’Connell, who lives next door to the complex, said...
...gives the illusion of visual dynamism without physical movement. “The piece is in infinite, continuous flux,” says artist Sara J. Stern ’12, who tailored her work specifically to the space. “Transparency, reflection, shadow, and light are all central to [the piece].” Directly across from this sculpture, an enormous charcoal-on-paper piece utilizes traditional sketching and shadowing techniques to capture the versatility of human movement within the artistic confines of a linear plane. A few steps down the corridor reveal equally fascinating creations, from faces...
...create a very rich mosaic rarely portrayed.” This mosaic is what these photographs begin to reveal. “I was struck by how well [the photographs] were selected to portray at least three important themes of peace, passion, and submission. These themes are of course central in Sufi thought, but they are also very important Islamic themes, though rarely ever associated with Islam either by the media here, or by those outspoken violent agents who pull the world’s attention to themselves with their violence and their claim to represent Islam...
...some 75% of U.S. supplies gets into Afghanistan through Pakistan, those overland supply routes are coming under increasing insurgent attacks. Washington has won approval from Russia and Kazakhstan to ship non-lethal supplies (such as food and fuel) into Afghanistan by rail. Army General David Petraeus, chief of U.S. Central Command, was in Uzbekistan seeking similar rights this week, and the U.S. military is also studying routes through Tajikistan...