Word: courtyards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JAPAN displays ancient arts and modern crafts, consumer products ranging from TV sets and cameras to microscopes and automobiles. All this is assembled in a complex of buildings circling a many-leveled courtyard, featuring samurai duelers, Kabuki (and other) dancers, judo wrestlers...
...visitor on a walk around the world: past a Hong Kong market to the Taj Mahal, on to the Bavarian Alps, through a Cambodian jungle, winding up on a cruise ship bobbing in Rio's harbor. Afterwards, thirsty voyagers can pause and refresh at Coke stands in the courtyard...
...aimed at making Al Azhar into a new university, while preserving its ancient eminence as a religious center. Mamoun intends to keep the combination. This fall, Al Azhar opens three new faculties of medicine, engineering and agriculture. And the three towering minarets that once cast their shadows on a courtyard of ragged students kneeling on straw mats now look down on modern classrooms and a swimming pool...
...Westchester. But such practical arguments seem minor compared with the sheer esthetic appeal of the new three-story glass-and-concrete headquarters quadrangle, which would cover a square block in Manhattan. The building rises near an apple orchard on a 443-acre estate, surrounds picturesque Japanese gardens in a courtyard designed by Sculptor Isamu Noguchi...
...second and third floors will be primarily for studying, with a cluster of faculty offices and seminar rooms facing the inner courtyard. Study alcoves, lining the outer edge of the building, will be broader and less deep than those in the present library. The alcoves will be furnished with various combinations of individual desks and comfortable chairs. The penthouse will include poetry room, colloquium, and music library, along with a kitchen and a coffee lounge. Its outer balcony will offer scenic Cambridge from many perspectives, and an inner terrace with tables will border the courtyard...