Word: likelies
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...year Mayne started Morphosis with another architect, Jim Stafford. There was a long lean period. But in 1999 Mayne produced his breakthrough building, the Diamond Ranch High School in Pomona, Cal., an ensemble of angular forms that put him on the map. It led to other widely seen projects like the Los Angeles district headquarters of CalTrans, the California Department of Transportation; a federal courthouse in Eugene, Oregon; and a forthcoming office tower in Paris that will be the tallest building in the city...
...might otherwise be a standard stack of offices, classrooms and laboratories. Mayne has played with similar screens in a few recent projects, most spectacularly in a federal office building in San Francisco, where the screen cascades down 18 stories and then spills in long folds across an adjoining plaza, like a metallic bridal train at a robot wedding. At Cooper Union the screen creates a concave facade that bows in many directions. Depending on the light, that steel skin, which has a low, semi-matte luster, can project either cheese-grater roughness or elegant shimmer - or, oddly, both...
...Inside, Mayne has provided another bravura gesture, a stairway framed in places by a fluid, torquing gridwork of white-painted steel that whirlpools upward through the building's multistory atrium. Appearing sometimes like a sort of trellis, sometimes as an open-grid wall, it has so much visual energy the stairs seem in some places to be climbing themselves...
...uninitiated, the battle in Britain to have the coveted No. 1 single at Christmas usually goes down like this: it's either won by a song extolling the merits of the time of year ("Merry Xmas Everybody" by Slade, "Do They Know It's Christmas?" by Band Aid); a novelty track ("Mr. Blobby" by, er, Mr. Blobby, "Can We Fix It?" by Bob the Builder); or, for the past four years, a song by the newly minted winner of The X Factor, Britain's wildly popular version of American Idol. Indeed, the chances of any act upsetting X Factor creator...
...Chan Chun-chuen was heard at Hong Kong's Court of First Instance during the summer, and judgment is expected by year's end. The synopsis is this: upon the death, at 69, of billionairess Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum (a woman who wore her hair in pigtails, dressed like Lolita and answered to the nickname Little Sweetie), two conflicting wills were produced. One bequeathed her $4.2 billion estate to the Chinachem Charitable Foundation, run by her siblings. The other was flaunted by feng shui "master" Tony Chan Chun-chuen - who also claimed to be her lover - and stipulated that...