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...this freedom, color, and imminent economy extends to whole buildings of plastic. At the show one can walk through several free-form hive-like buildings made by spraying polyurethane foam over a fabric frame. In one of these structures there's a slide show demonstrating the process of mush hardening into a building. And there are pictures of a house made from the hive modules by Yale School of Art and Architecture Professor Felix Drury and his students...
Learned with Hornets. Now Edmun-Campello, secretary of agriculture for the state of Rio de Janeiro, has begun a new campaign. Importing Italian queen bees from the U.S. and Mexi-Campello plans to stage a series of apiarian palace coups. Wherever he can find a hive, he plans to kill the African queen and replace her with an already fertilized Italian. When new Italian queens, workers and drones are born more Africans will be replaced until, Campello hopes, the bad bees will be bred out of Brazil...
...land costs and the national appetite for prime locations, builders lately have been stretching the skyline of U.S. cities to new altitudes. From San Francisco to Boston, apartment and commercial projects are growing to an unprecedented size and complexity for their areas. In congested downtown Chicago, a 100-story hive of offices, stores, apartments, restaurants and parking space is climbing toward completion next year. For a few years, the $95 million John Hancock Center will be the world's second-tallest (1,107 ft.) building, after Manhattan's Empire State Building (102 stories and 1,250 ft.). Last...
Originally, beehive paintings were crude designs to ward off evil spirits; favorite subjects were the Madonna, the saints, and especially Job, the patron saint of beekeepers. As the generations progressed, painted hives became a status symbol; prosperous owners hired itinerant painters to decorate each hive with as many as 60 panels. Styles be came baroque, subjects sly and secular, with folk tales and local gossip pre dominant. One panel, dated 1890, may have been done by an artist who knew his subject all too well. It shows a red-shirted farmer, holding a beehive, as he falls from a ladder...
Well, I'm a king bee, buzzing 'round your hive...