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...Zumthor's working method from the 1996 project that first gained him wide notice, a thermal bath house on the grounds of a spa hotel in the Swiss commune of Vals. He set the building into a hillside and fashioned the interiors as spare boxes of concrete and gneiss, with slot skylights positioned to admit light just so. Everything was pared away that would distract from the elemental experiences of stone and water, light and darkness, heat and cold, even silence. As he put it: "Our spa is no fun fair...
...then, why should a stage set not be "sculpture"? In the Whitney, pretty well anything that isn't flat or a photograph can be classified as sculpture, like Scott Burton's table made of sheet onyx lit from inside, or his chairs-two hunks of rough gray gneiss, cut in a way that makes only minimal concessions to human buttocks, impartially devoid of life as sculpture and comfort as furniture...
After a four mile trek over sand hills, shrubbery, Fordham gneiss and rain showering the Bronx, the Harvard runners were still trailing the field coming up to Cemetery Hill, the aptly named final obstacle on the undulating course...
Last week the drilling had descended 3,500 ft., passing through strata of granite gneiss, a substance never known to have yielded oil in commercial quantities. A pipe-line had been constructed from the orifice to a neighboring cranberry bog to store the precious fluid when and if it gushed. But not a smitch of oil appeared...
Geological Conference. Papers: Preliminary Report on the Geology of the Woonsocket Basin. Mr. F. C. Shrader; The Stamford Gneiss. Mr. W. H. Snyder. Geological Laboratory, Room...