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...lives about 25 miles outside of Helsinki at a place called Jarvenpaa. which means "Lake's End." One can go out from the capital by a little train in about an hour, or by motor car in less. His villa is built of logs and stands on a knoll among pines and silver birches overlooking the lake to the westward. At the foot of this knoll but still in the grove is an assemblage of heavy out-of-door wooden chairs around a table, all of them painted white, and down here one sunny afternoon late in August Mme. Sibelius...
...estate developer, it is only in its second year of operation and will not be completely finished until 1975. At first sight, it is so austere and functional that it looks rather like an IBM office. The hotel and apartment interiors, however, are elegantly decorated, with heavy emphasis on Knoll and Herman Miller furniture. One of the highlights of the main complex of buildings is a combination restaurant, coffee shop and discothèque, done in Plexiglas and effectively brightened by blue lacquer paint. The lift station houses a giant téléphérique (capacity...
Each one of St. Mary's 7,000 exterior stones was taken down, numbered, and shipped across the Atlantic. They were then reassembled on a knoll at the edge of the Westminster campus. Dedicated two weeks ago, the rebuilt church is complete with a new roof, new bells, new organ, humidity control and air conditioning...
...back from a crescent-shaped driveway, the white Georgian manor sits atop a grassy knoll, its bright red door beckoning in the sunshine of an early Virginia spring. The air is vibrant with the commotion of shrieking children and barking dogs at play beneath budding oaks and hickories. A woman?joking, chiding, cajoling?bustles in and out of the house, chatting with friends who come to visit, taking on an older child at tennis (and winning), carrying a beer to a gardener on the 5˝-acre grounds...
...three-story cream-colored chalet, with its red-tiled roof, sits on a knoll in a one-acre garden of pine and chestnut trees. Those who have been inside the villa describe its furnishings as "early Mussolini-pretty ugly stuff." In the entrance stand a wooden cupboard, a nondescript sofa and a desk manned by a Frenchman who appears to be a security man assigned by the French Communist Party. In the second-floor salon where Madame Binh has her office and receives visitors, the original pictures have been taken down (with the hooks left hanging), and portraits of N.L.F...