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It costs about $10, it’s a big-budget production, it’s not too taxing on the mind, the snacks are overpriced, and it’s a perfect way to escape the heat of summer for 90 minutes of frigid air-conditioning. That�...

Author: By Alexander B. Fabry, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Europe's Big-Bucks Museums | 9/27/2007 | See Source »

So Modernism has another architectural-pilgrimage site. Like the Farnsworth House in Plano, Ill., a Ludwig Mies van der Rohe creation that the trust also owns, the Glass House has become a place where people come to marvel at the elegance and incontestable beauty of the Modernist idea in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Splendor in the Glass | 6/28/2007 | See Source »

The Pompidou turned the world upside down by turning it inside out. What would ordinarily have been the inner workings of the museum - escalators, ventilation ducts, even its steel structural framework - were put on the outside, making it easier to produce large, uninterrupted gallery spaces within. Rogers (and Piano) took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turning Buildings Inside Out | 3/29/2007 | See Source »

Shaped somewhat like a very large bean?an organic form that has turned up more than once in Future Systems designs?the store gave the jumble of downtown Birmingham a glamorous new focal point. For one thing, it's pillowy. Not a word you typically get to use when describing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thinking Way Out of the Box | 2/27/2007 | See Source »

Had enough of midcentury modern and Mies? Finished with Finnish style? The latest wave in furniture trends might just be a bright, shiny take on rococo style: this Poldo chest of drawers from the Conran Shop is sure to enliven even the dreariest room.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A to Z | 12/6/2006 | See Source »

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