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...AIA’s poll 1,804 “randomly selected” Americans were instructed to pick their preferred choice of architecture from a list of 248 buildings prepared by an AIA panel. Sever beat famous buildings like Fenway Park (ranked 113) and New York’s Radio City Music Hall (100) to snag slot 77, standing as the only Harvard-affiliated building on the list...
...widely known Trinity Church in Copley Square. According to the NHL program’s website, his goal was to make Sever blend in with the Gothic and Federal styles of the preexisting buildings around the Yard. EDITOR'S NOTE The Feb. 12 news article "Sever Ranks 77 on List of Top 150 Works of Architecture" included a quote attributed to Sean R. Tracy '05 criticizing a magazine's ranking of Sever Hall as one of the best works of architecture in America. After the article was published, Tracy contacted The Crimson and said that he was never interviewed...
...involved in the decision process today.” The search committee met with the Overseers at each of the board’s regular meetings during the search to brief the Overseers on the search’s progress. At a meeting in December, the committee shared a list of 30 candidates with the Overseers. But at the regularly scheduled Feb. 4 meeting, no names were discussed, one overseer said last week. The overseer asked not to be named because the process is considered confidential. The Overseers are often seen as a “rubber stamp?...
Beijing has many charms for visitors: the Great Wall, the Forbidden City, weird and wonderful new architecture, a slew of museums celebrating China's millennia of culture and history. The list is long. But even the most academically inclined out-of-town visitor invariably ends up asking - somewhat sheepishly - whether I can give them directions to the "Fake Market." There are actually several of these, each a four- or five-story building jammed with stalls selling everything from shoes to toys, handbags, DVD players, watches, pearls, electronics, sports equipment. Almost everything in these establishments bears a famous name brand, often...
...Though Royal began with a highly non-Socialist reminder of the parlous state of France's finances (public debt amounts to 64% of gross national product, or 18,000 euros per citizen), she followed that up with a long list of new and expensive programs that will hardly give France the balanced budget it has lacked for decades. She vowed to increase the guaranteed minimum income from 1,254 euros a month to 1,500 euros; to increase the lowest state pensions by 5%; to have the state pay rental deposits for its poorest citizens, to offer all young people...