Word: courtyard
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...Harvard’s plan, Mattison said, “you put the walls on the outside and keep the nice grassy courtyard for people that are part of really only the Harvard community...
...ancient Chinese garden designs - a koi pond, bamboo hedges - with sharp Modernist forms while blurring inside/outside spatial distinctions. Just so, Bawa's naturally ventilated Ena de Silva House (Sri Lanka, 1960) borrowed from Sinhalese manor houses and Kandyan spaces - shrine room, verandahs - to create something new: an innovative, urban courtyard home with windows that could be used, according to the client's wishes, "for serenading at night...
...showed me some before-after pictures of the Yard. (These had just been presented to Drew Faust some weeks back.) The most striking transformation is of Tercentenary theatre, in particular the courtyard of Sever Hall. The earlier pictures are barren and ghostly, and emphasize Sever’s gothicisms. It is the Caspar Friedrich David the Fogg never had. A decade later, there is a transformation. The honey locusts are robust, dappled light all streaming to the ground, ready for a cluster of students for an admissions catalogue...
...puts the ensemble in simple kimonos and the higher-ranking characters in increasingly elaborate get-ups (with larger and larger fans to match). As artistic designer and master painter, the always-impressive Courtney E. Thompson ’09 presents a beautiful, uncomplicated set design of a simple Japanese courtyard...
...Ngon, tel: (84-4) 942-8162, diners can experience all of the flavors with none of the risk, as former street vendors prepare their specialties - such as banh cuon (ground pork and mushrooms steamed in rice-flour crepes) and rice porridge with eel - in a clean, open-air courtyard...