Word: plasterers
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After the photo shoot, Zeta-Jones and her entourage moved into the Hasty Pudding’s theater, with its chipping plaster, peeling paint, and ancient creaky seats. Members of the press lined a wall as friends and family of the cast took...
Installing new wiring in older buildings would necessarily interfere more with students’ suites—with the potential for “dust, plaster, and paint getting all over people’s clothes,” Davis said...
...third section the Mori show focuses on artists and architects who took buildings apart as a means of arriving at new ways to put them together. In the early 1970s the architect-artist Gordon Matta-Clark would buzz-saw transverse slices out of entire wood and plaster structures, giant incisions that would turn the buildings into a fascinating kind of site-specific sculpture. His work shook up the very idea of a building, a practice carried further by the generation of Deconstructivist architects like Rem Koolhaas, Peter Eisenman and Daniel Libeskind, who came to prominence in the '80s with work...
What Stern means is that it's not just the silhouettes or the altitude that's changing. After Sept. 11, security and safety became much larger issues in the thinking of architects. More lives might have been saved at the Twin Towers if the plaster-wallboard interiors of the exit stairwells had not collapsed, blocking some exit routes. The Trade Center depended on a complicated structural system of interior and exterior steel columns. Many new towers favor superstrong concrete cores that not only brace more firmly against wind--and at 2,000-plus feet, you don't want to sway...
...several twin-bed "art rooms" designed by young, up-and-coming conceptualists. There's everything from the stark sculpture of Nicolas Touron, who has covered the walls of room 407 with 600 kg of "crooked ceramic objects," to the installations of Orna Wertman, whose giant jigsaw puzzles-cum-installations plaster room 503. In hotels like these, life does indeed imitate art. tel: (31?20) 623 1380; www.winston.nl