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...system, colorful Olympic housing that breaks with the predominant gray, and a scattering of shiny new sports venues. Most striking is the glass Oval Lingotto, which will house speed skating now and conventions in the future: its transparent top is suspended without pillars to create a sweeping open space. Gae Aulenti, the Italian architect who turned Paris' Gare d'Orsay into a stunning modern museum, has applied her magic to the 1960s-era Palavela skating rink. Preserving its sail-shaped outer structure, she introduced a new "building within a building" independent of the overlapping roof above. Yet the makeover...
...After FAI's restoration, all is as it was back in the 19th century, and birdsong and the rush of water on the rocks fill the atmosphere. Architect Gae Aulenti's visitors' center offers audio guides, and next summer guests will be able to take illuminated evening walks. The restoration, which includes the replanting of tree and shrub species from Rivarola's original garden, will continue for at least another year. Villa Gregoriana is once again worthy of the most splendid of Grand Tours. tel: (39-06) 3996 7701; www.pierreci.it
...neglected jungle of brambles, brushwood, ivy and weeds, obscuring the views and grottoes and covering the limestone walls' natural whorled designs. After fai's restoration, all is as it was back in the 19th century, and birdsong and the rush of water on the rocks fill the atmosphere. Architect Gae Aulenti's visitors' center offers audio guides, and next summer guests will be able to take illuminated evening walks. The restoration, which includes the replanting of tree and shrub species from Rivarola's original garden, will continue for at least another year. Villa Gregoriana is once again worthy...
...identified. He cites a pink lamb's-wool sweater sold in Copenhagen that's decorated with pompons of dog fur: "No one in Europe would buy these products if they knew." In cases where the trim is identified, Stevenson says, importers concoct all sorts of exotic, meaningless names, like gae-wolf, sobaki and goupee. Even if the E.U. cracked down on imports, verification is cumbersome and expensive. The curing process used on many skins destroys DNA, so it would be difficult to prove that pelts came from cats or dogs. And China is showing no interest in stopping the trade...
...enthusiasm of a few artists and intellectuals for Chinese scrollwork and Korean statuary to make their way across America. In San Francisco last week, the Asian Art Museum celebrated the opening of a sizable new home in the city's former main library, a 1917 neoclassical building reconceived by Gae Aulenti, the Italian designer who updated the Musee d'Orsay in Paris. It's no mystery why the largest American museum devoted to Asian art should be located in a city where some 40% of the population is of Asian descent, chiefly Chinese and Philippine, but including Indian, Pakistani...