Word: glassing
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...that reason, the new ICA has glass everywhere, both clear and translucent, which is unusual for a museum, a place that has to protect artworks from direct light. The architects have got around that problem by clustering the galleries in enclosed space on the fourth floor while placing most of the public spaces on the lower, more light-filled, levels. Even the 325-seat theater space is bounded on two sides by double-height glass walls so that performances can take place against the backdrop of the harbor. (The walls can also be closed off with scrims when necessary...
...viewing decks and glass elevators are things you can find in a lot of buildings that don't come with elaborate theoretical justifications. The truly impressive aesthetic gamesmanship at the ICA takes place in the deceptively simple Mediatheque, a sloping room with grandstand-style seating, each tier equipped with computer stations for looking at digital artworks and downloading videos about artists. Suspended at an angle from beneath the long, cantilevered upper story, the room culminates in a window wall that looks down directly onto the surface of Boston Harbor, roughly 40 ft. below. The result is the kind of view...
That glimmering water wall is more than a spectacular variation on wallpaper. It's an ingenious visual trick, an instantaneous conversion of nature to art by the mere act of framing the scene. Europe in the 18th century saw a vogue among painters and travelers for the Claude glass, an optical device that framed views in the manner of landscape painter Claude Lorrain and lent them something like his subdued tones. The Mediatheque functions in a similar way, but with even simpler means, aestheticizing a bit of nature simply by pointing us toward it just so. In a room where...
Hautel Couture's boutique flagship, Dream, has followed its first property in midtown Manhattan with a sleek, glass-wrapped edifice in Bangkok (www.dreambkk.com). Its resident manager, Adi Jaya, is a dapper Balinese who trained at the sumptuous Asian chain Amanresorts, so you can expect your total experience?accommodation, service, dining?to be sublime. Inside the guest rooms, the accent is purely contemporary: white walls and leather chaises, cerulean lighting, Egyptian cotton linen tucked into platform beds, iPod nanos and 42-inch plasma TVs, while the two suites boast deep-soak baths and bars stocked with Veuve Clicquot and 42 Below...
...afternoon, the Crimson claimed victory partly due to its strongest rebounding game this season. The Mountain Hawks entered the game out-rebounding the competition by 5.3 boards a game, the second best margin in the Patriot League. Thus, Harvard’s 37-33 besting of Lehigh on the glass looked all the more impressive. When you break down this statistic into offensive and defensive rebounds, the Crimson improved on its season average at both ends of the floor. While Lehigh out-rebounded Harvard 18-15 on offense, Harvard still dramatically improved on its average of 10.25 offensive rebounds...