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Keep all that in mind when you step into the tour de force just inside the Hearst Tower. Instead of a conventional lobby, Foster has produced a massive indoor piazza, a 10-story atrium bathed in sunlight from overhead skylights and surrounded by the windowed masonry walls of Urban's original base, which give the appearance of exterior walls facing inward. At a time when cities have ever less interest in parks or open space, this is an office tower with a town square inside, not a shopping mall. "A building should try to give something back to the city...
...showers, private balconies and widescreen views of the Alps. Public areas are appointed in muted tones and the only real nod to traditional Alpine gemütlichkeit is a classy, glass-enclosed fireplace. But if décor isn't a draw, the restorative qualities of the Mavida's indoor swimming pool and spa should prove a near irresistible lure to daytrippers and holidaymakers flocking to the area for its year-round skiing. There are two Finnish saunas, a dampfbad (or steam bath) and a whole host of esoteric treatments on offer, including sea-salt peels, lymphatic draining and meditation...
...Harvard’s Allston Development Group, told members of the Harvard-Allston Task Force last night. Preliminary sketches of the 500,000 square foot science complex that will set the tone for the rest of Allston depict modern glass buildings connected by aerial walkways. Pathways crossing grassy knolls, indoor gardens, and spacious atriums complemented the drawings of the outdoor facades. “I am not a traditionalist, I can tell you that right away,” said Stefan Behnisch, the University’s architect for the first new Allston buildings, in a presentation to the task...
...along with Lindsay K. Turner ’07, has organized a small musical ensemble to bookend “Playboy” and to punctuate its action. The instrumentation is traditionally Irish, and certainly unique to the production. The accordion, fiddle, Uilleann (dubbed “indoor bagpipes” by Hester) and bodhran (an Irish percussion instrument) will accompany a vocal musician who, according to Spillane-Hinks, spans the gap between music and theater, and who will introduce the performance in a manner reminiscent of a Shakespearian prologue...
...downstairs; it looks like the owners spent less exorbitantly up here.While most will probably head to Om for its atmosphere, there’re some very good noshings and spirits to be had. Bartender Cliff Travers, formerly of Dali sibling Cuchi Cuchi, smiled at me from behind yellow-tinted indoor sunglasses and served me two colorful sampler drinks. The green one was supposedly flavored with green tea essential oil, while the pink one had…a raspberry on the rim. Both tasted super, despite one bartender’s whisper to me that they were keeping...