Word: dalle
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...even when his clients have money, Koolhaas doesn't spend it on materials. The Villa Dall'Ava, outside Paris, cost $485,000, yet the architect still used orange plastic webbing, familiar from construction sites, for a balustrade on the roof. One room on the ground floor is surrounded on three sides by glass, which can be opened to the outside or enclosed by a curtain--almost like a hospital bed--for more intimacy. The clients asked for a "masterpiece," and they got an adventure. Neighbors, on the other hand, so opposed the plan that the house had to be fought...
...Dall W. Forsythe, a lecturer in public policy at the Kennedy School, will also be a member of the transition team. Forsythe was previously New York Gov. Mario M. Cuomo's budget director...