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...institute is so little known and so anachronistic -- a club, chapel and classroom complex for merchant mariners -- that it seems like a novelistic conceit. Its fey charms evidently inspired James Stewart Polshek as he designed its new quarters. Instead of creating a boringly deferential pseudo- 18th century building, he has both respected tradition and done something entirely original. From a new, neighborly four-story red brick base, Polshek has popped two prow-shaped floors clad in a modernist grid of white enameled metal. Such a building could be tricky and meretricious, but Polshek, one of the finest uncelebrated architects working...
...SISTINE CHAPEL by Frederick Hartt, Fabrizio Mancinelli and Gianluigi Colalucci (Knopf; two volumes...
Michelangelo's mission was to reveal the beauty of God's creation; these books reveal the beauty of Michelangelo's creation. Scholars once spoke of the artist's "sober coloring." These sumptuous volumes, depicting the chapel's restoration, reveal just how wrong they were...
Other Japanese bombers swarmed over Hawaii's military airfields, Hickam and Wheeler, Kaneohe and Ewa. Dive-bombing and strafing the American planes neatly parked on the runways, they quickly won control of the sky. They wrecked hangars, warehouses, barracks -- as well as the Hickam Field chapel and the enlisted men's new beer hall, the Snake Ranch. And in the midst of all this, a rainbow appeared over Ford Island...
...Chapel series--with classical guitarist Berit Strong. Free, in the MIT chapel Thursday at noon...