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...turned up nothing. When they trudged into the 10th house, though, a trap was sprung: the insurgents had lured them in and then opened fire, forcing Bellavia's men to scramble out of the house as shards of glass peppered them and bullets ricocheted off the gates of the courtyard. Bellavia yelled for a Bradley armored fighting vehicle to get "up here now!" The Bradley drew along the gate and poured 25-mm-cannon and M-240 machine-gun fire into the house, blasting a shower of concrete chips and luminescent sparks...
Along with a nearly inaccessible sunken courtyard adjacent to the Fogg Museum, these unrealized elements are Corbusier’s innovative failures: interstitial spaces that have been, for the most part, either forgotten or disused. It is here that Hughe’s work thrives, arresting and revealing the gaps in communication and visualization that come with the designing and realization of a commission—architectural and artistic. These are the disparities between what is and what might have been, the result of difficulties that arose out of even the most basic translations during construction between Corbusier?...
...addition to Huyghe’s archaeology of these “missing pieces” is an “architectural extension” of the existing building to provide a new, if temporary social space. Emerging from the building’s unused courtyard is, a glowing, moss-covered polycarbonate theatre designed by a professor at the Graduate School of Design. It is, in itself, a powerful and sculptural meditation on the architectural innovations the Carpenter Center has witnessed over the previous 40 years. Perhaps the result of a seed brought by the little bird at Corbusier?...
...opening remarks, Shaw praised the generosity of sponsors from all over the university, who all chipped in to ensure a successful weekend. The Harvard University Art Museums, for example, generously donated a catered reception in the Fogg courtyard...
Tucked away in the by-lanes of Baghdad's upscale Yarmouk district, the Omar al-Mukhtar Mosque is an unimpressive structure. Gray cement and concrete, it boasts no glittering dome, no grand courtyard, no elaborate stucco work on the ceiling. The loudspeakers on its single minaret are set at a modest volume, and the muezzin's call to prayer barely travels a few blocks. "We like to keep things low-key," says Abdul Karim al-Nasseri, the mosque's soft-voiced imam. "People come here for quiet contemplation...