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...Princeton kiosk will serve as a guard tower at the new traffic entrance into the campus. The kiosk, which will accommodate a single security guard, is being built primarily in wood in "the style of an 18th-century cupola," according to Jon Hlafter, director of physical planning at Princeton. With a price tag of $50,000, the booth will cost about $1000 per square foot, Hlafter estimates...
...kiosk's architect, Robert Venturi, who heads the presitigious Philadelphia firm of Venturi, Rauch, and Scott Brown, said he was disappointed by unfavorable student reaction to the kiosk. The structure "should not be criticized the way it is," he said. "The students should note that architecture as opposed to building inevitably costs more. We have been working very hard and very furiously to give Princeton a useful and decent booth," he said...
Louis Lopez, 47, leans on crutches against a newspaper kiosk on upper Broadway in Manhattan. He used to be a TV repairman, until he got caught in the cross fire of a gang shoot-out 18 months ago. He collects $370 a month in disability benefits. "How can I live on that? I am a good technician. But as you see, I can't work." Does he drink, use drugs? "No. I can hardly crawl around when I am sober...
VINCE DIXON sits in the Cambridge Discovery kiosk in the heart of Harvard Square, answering questions all day long. Is it a hard...
Brown said he hoped to put another shelf in Somerville's Davis Square station, and eventually to put a staffed kiosk in the Porter Square station. But he said Harvard Square was not likely to get a shelf because it would be hard to stock such a busy station...