Word: interiorities
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...Exit Argentinean police arrested the owner of a nightclub in downtown Buenos Aires after a blaze killed at least 175 and injured more than 700. Interior Minister Aníbal Fernández said that four of the disco's six doors had been wired shut, snaring the mostly young clubgoers in what he called "a mortal trap." Fernandez also warned that the death toll was likely to rise. Thousands of people, many in their teens and 20s, had packed into the Cromagnon Republic disco to celebrate the end of the school year. The Argentinean rock band Los Callejeros...
...Integration after failing to identify the governing body of the E.U. during questioning in parliament. Opposition politicians predicted early elections. Terror Resurgent SAUDI ARABIA Despite government assurances that al-Qaeda sympathizers in the kingdom have been greatly weakened by a 19-month clampdown, two suspected suicide bombings targeting the Interior Ministry and a special forces base injured more than a dozen. Police investigating the attacks later killed 10 alleged al-Qaeda militants, including two of the kingdom's most wanted terrorists. A Fresh Start AFGHANISTAN The Cabinet of President Hamid Karzai met for the first time, a week after being...
...simple or humble) and sabi (things that gain beauty from age). Artist and architect Leonard Koren introduced the term to Americans a decade ago with his extended essay Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets and Philosophers. But only recently have people begun to apply the term and philosophy to interior decorating. Several new books are leading the charge. Andrew Juniper's Wabi Sabi: The Japanese Art of Impermanence and Taro Gold's Living Wabi Sabi: The True Beauty of Your Life explain how to apply the philosophy to life in general, while The Wabi-Sabi House: The Japanese...
Anybody who rides the elevator in an office or apartment building knows how true that is. So the interior space of the tall tower is lately subject to a complete reimagining. The most famous answer from Koolhaas has been his cantilevered proposal for the CCTV tower, headquarters of China's government television operation in Beijing. It's a building that somersaults over itself to provide the maximum space in which people can connect with one another. This year United Architects, an alliance of several architectural offices, entered a no less astonishing submission in a competition to design the Frankfurt, Germany...
...inside a tall building were very much, well, in the air. One of the most talked about skyscrapers of the past year, Norman Foster's 30 St. Mary Axe building in London--better known as "the gherkin" because of its shape--is a glass-enclosed vertical torpedo with sizable interior light wells and gardens scattered throughout its circular floor plates. Those permit each floor to communicate visually with others. "We can compose completely different organizational structures in terms of how you move through a building vertically," says Thom Mayne, of the forward-looking firm Morphosis, based in Santa Monica, Calif...