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Furthermore, the Alabama-bred Davis has a particular kind of small town in mind--Southern, circa 1930, Edward Hopperesque--and he has assembled some remarkable architects to help realize the vision. Robert A.M. Stern is designing a beachfront hotel. Steven Holl will contribute a retail-office-and-apartment building. And Leon Krier, an influential architectural theorist who lives in London, plans to build a house for himself at Seaside next year--the first building of his quixotic career...
...years since Richard Babcock first mounted his pickup truck to rescue a colonial barn in distress, snatching a comely example of Scottish extraction, circa 1710, from the jaws of damp rot in Lenox, Mass. After eight months he had tenderly transformed her timbers into a family home in New Marlboro, 18 miles south. Thus was ignited the peculiar passion that, 75 recyclings later, still drives the master builder. "I'm an evangelist, truth to tell," he says. "Some men are called to save souls. I was called to save barns...
...YORK On nyc.gov scan vintage photos (the city shot all home façades circa '39). Offer your digs for a film shoot. View health-inspection reports of 19,000 restaurants. At lowermanhattan.info, glimpse ground zero's future via animation...
...this sounds suspiciously like the hype-saturated Web circa 1999, it should. These days, tiny companies with names like Zingy and Jamdat are market leaders, and product testing often means throwing something new out to the public just to see if it flies. The world of these wireless data services is so unformed that no one knows yet what people will pay for in the long run. "The history of this space is everyone just feeling their way through," says John Burris, director of wireless data services for Sprint. But the excitement is real: companies and industry experts are convinced...
...death; in Cairo. The C.T. scan, for which Tut's body was removed from its sarcophagus for the first time since its discovery in 1922, revealed no sign of head wounds, ending speculation that a blow to the head had ended the 19-year-old King's brief reign circa 1352 B.C. "We don't know how the King died, but we are sure it was not murder," said Egyptian antiquities expert Zahi Hawass. "We should not disturb the King anymore...