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Holl's other signatures? One is a unique husbandry of space. Each building is not so much a discrete object as a complicated succession of vistas. He called his plan for the Helsinki museum "Chiasma," a Greek word for "intertwining." That describes how the museum's curving outer section enfolds a straighter-lined companion structure. It also refers to the complicated lines of sight and movement by which his intricate design reaches out to the surrounding streets. Moving among the museum's 25 galleries, visitors wind between the two portions and upward toward a concluding level of--what else?--sunlight...
...surgery, I noticed that something was hanging down my throat, and that if I made an exaggerated hacking sound, it would flip into my mouth onto the back of my tongue, in clear view of whoever I could get to look in my mouth. I left the unidentified hanging object alone for another day, occasionally choking. But my drugged self began to worry that I would aspirate...
...This said, I attempted to perform “surgery” in the bathroom mirror, with a flashlight and kitchen tongs. It became quickly apparent that the so-called hanging object was actually my uvula...
...object of all this activity and protest is Carolina’s plan to go on a major construction spree over the next decade. The school is currently seeking town approval of a development plan that would create 5.8 million square feet of building space over the next several decades, adding everything from undergraduate dormitories to science labs. To provide some perspective, Harvard’s entire campus in Cambridge has only 12.2 million square feet of building space...
...university sets a cap on the number of square feet that Carolina can build. The most vocal opponents to Carolina’s expansion are residents of neighborhoods adjacent to the campus, which would lose the undeveloped buffer that now separates them from the school. Other residents merely object on the basis of the impact the plans would have on the town’s traffic patterns or environment. They don’t want the development to destroy the small-town nature of Chapel Hill or bring the same kind of sprawl that private developers are stringently prohibited from...