Word: mosaics
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...unveiled in July before a gathering of European transport ministers, features works along the No. 1 line by Greece's Jannis Kounellis, Britain's David Tremlett and Italy's Michelangelo Pistoletto. The brand-new Materdei station sports a brightly colored sculpture by Luigi Serafini and a Sandro Chia mosaic. Achille Bonito Oliva, the project's curator, calls it the world's first "obligatory museum" - if you ride the No. 1 line, you can't miss it. Still, city officials are perhaps proudest of the brushstrokes that have not shown up. Barely a trace of graffiti or vandalism has been registered...
Harvard plans renovations that will bring the 1887 building back to its original condition, including tearing off the aluminum siding and mosaic of turquoise tiles around the front door which onlookers described as tacky. Built as a rooming house for students and bought by Harvard in 1997, it will become a two-family complex for faculty members...
Watson turned grudgingly to work on the structure of the tobacco mosaic virus, and Crick went back to hemoglobin. But no mere lab director could keep them from talking about dna between themselves. And while their blunder the first time around had been dispiriting, it didn't discourage them. After all, they had no reputations to be tarnished. And if they had come to the wrong conclusions based on incomplete information and a dumb mistake, that was just an incentive to get better information and be more careful next time...
...building has been gutted and given a new glass facade; teakwood balconies off the rooms on the top floors to allow spectacular views of the gardens. The $70 million hotel will offer its 58-rooms starting at j600 a night. There will be a swimming pool with gold-mosaic tiles, a spa, a meditation garden with smoking moss and a restaurant run by a (yet unnamed) famous chef. The rooms will have an Asian feel, providing an ambience closer to the famous Amanresorts of Thailand and Indonesia than the pink-marble decor of Bulgari stores. Expect lots of black...
...have not actually been to France, but I have seen Amelie and been to Disney World. These two experiences, I think, amount to all I need to judge Metro’s authenticity. The mosaic-tiled floor, big windows and lots of light wood are charming and airy, a contrast to the more moody Cottonwood Café that used to occupy the space. Deep red pleather booths and chairs are cute, but the Art Deco lighting (in addition to Art Deco everything) is too new-looking and the “tin” ceiling and the huge mirrors...