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...Aviv was to prove a perfect laboratory for Bauhaus, after urgent tinkering. The young Jewish architects who arrived from Germany, Poland and Russia with blueprints tucked under their arms were used to gloomy winter climes where sunlight was as rare as gold. In Europe, designs were made to trap sunlight, not block it. All that changed on the Palestine Mandate's dazzling shores, where designers realized that the fierce sun and parboiling heat were to be shunned. Gone were the big windows, replaced by narrow strips. Rooftops were given shade, balconies grew overhangs and designs were retooled...
...Bauhaus buildings have weathered a half-century's pounding by Tel Aviv's sun and corrosive sea air. Over the years, developers walled in balconies and slopped a few extra floors on top of these once perfect structures. But after the city was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2003, Tel Aviv chose over 1,000 of these buildings for preservation and ordered that they be restored to their original shape...
...many pairs of cargo shorts.) Above all, you wondered: would college life really be as cool, chill, and homoerotic as membership in the Harvard ’09 Fellas Facebook group made it seem? (Answer: Yes.)We all spent our college careers the same way: trying to record the perfect acappella cover of K-Ci and JoJo’s 1998 superhit “All my Life” to finally seduce Jessica S. Lin ’09. How tough is it to get the Fallen Angels in a recording studio? Those girls are always...
...Coach Green has really put an emphasis on doubles for the team match,” senior Beier Ko said. “It’s only worth one point, but that point can be a deciding factor.”Ko and sophomore Agnes Sibilski went a perfect 6-0 at No. 1 and made the All-Ivy First Team. The duo took down two nationally-ranked pairs—No. 36 Hillary Bartlett and Taylor Marable from Princeton and No. 67 Bianca Aboubakare and Cassandra Herzberg from Brown. At No. 2, sophomore Samantha Rosekrans and freshman Holly...
...perfect time to play Boston College given what they had just accomplished,” Harvard coach Tommy Amaker said. “This was an opportunity if there was ever a time to play them since they were still riding high from that victory. If there’s anything that’s going to happen, this was probably going to be one of those moments...