Word: grandstand
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During his match, he and Chris Clayton—who lost 6-1, 6-0—bantered with each other from opposite sides of a grandstand, their tone in line with the jovial atmosphere of the day for Harvard...
...museum expresses this connection better than the unfortunately named Mediatheque, which hangs angled below the cantilevered galleries. The Mediatheque is a computer lab in which to explore the ICA’s collection and online activities. The computers are arranged sloping downwards, mimicking both the theater and the grandstand below. The front wall of the room is one large plate of glass, framing a constantly changing and eternally hypnotic portion of the water and eliminating the external context of a horizon.It is important to remember that this is a small to medium sized museum. New York’s Museum...
...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...
...request friendship with "Chris" to discuss prime grandstand location. But perhaps if the site hangs in a few months a more provocative set of bookmarks will bloom and growing along with them, the possibility of real virtual Bible study...
...Jaws” at the MAC pool. A even larger crowd attended the 10 p.m. screening. The MAC advertised the “MAC Attack” as “one of the year’s most dramatic events.” For $5, students purchased grandstand and a limited number of in-pool seats to watch the classic film projected onto a screen with a movie theater-like volume of 2,400 watts. The event, funded mainly by a grant from the Student Activities Fund, was organized by Oliver A. Horovitz ’08, with...