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Jean Nouvel is standing in midair with his arms held high. O.K., he's not really in midair. He's standing on a window. Well, not exactly a window. It's a 1.5-m-by-3-m plate of glass that's set into the floor of a long corridor of his new Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It's the corridor that's in midair. Actually, it's not simply a corridor. It's more a kind of covered bridge to nowhere that cantilevers 54 m across and 18 m above the city's West River Parkway. And then...
...instance, is set in a deep recess of mirrored stainless steel. Look up and you see, reflected in the upper panel, the cars on the roadway beneath you. Look down and the lower panel reflects the sky. Up, earth; down, sky. His Cartier Foundation in Paris is a glass-walled structure with a freestanding glass wall situated a few meters in front of it. The effect is to create multiple veils of transparency in which the building seems to dematerialize. With the Musée du Quai Branly, Nouvel again shows that his buildings are in deliberately complex interplay...
...gowns to hear a few announcements and then rapidly transact business about individual boys. "You really get to know your teachers and can be very matey with them," says Tom, the fourth-year student. "On a Saturday evening you can pop up to a teacher's house, have a glass of wine and a chat." Little says, "There's a net there trying to influence boys to make the right decisions, but it's not intrusive. The whole thing has to be built around human relations and communication; you protect that and build outward." A paradoxical result of all this...
...fact, I didn't recognize the neighborhood at all. Our house had been built on a paddy field, and you could see it from a couple of miles around. Instead of that paddy field, I now saw shopping malls, colleges, apartment blocks and a giant convention center sheathed in glass. The man's house was the only thing that looked anything like my old home. Had he bought it from my father? "I'm sorry," he said. "I built it myself eight years...
...marked contrast to his brother, Jeb is considered a workaholic policy wonk (although he's been known to relax his patrician demeanor with a glass of Wild Turkey and Motown CDs), and he practically oozes public service vigor, part of what Bush-watchers call the family's drive to cement its place as the GOP's answer to the Kennedy dynasty. "Whether they agree with his policies or not," says political consultant and former Jeb spokesman Cory Tilley, "taxpayers still admire him because they know they're getting their money's worth from...