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...south entrance. Nine years ago, when the museum's director, Marc Wilson, and his trustees decided it was time to expand, they began a search for architects. Eventually they whittled the list down to six. Nearly all the finalists proposed building on the parking lot at the building's rear, a location that wouldn't interfere with its grand façade. Only Steven Holl dared to suggest an addition that would cascade down the eastern edge of the great lawn. Not only that, the expansion would actually be a series of pavilions, translucent glass enclosures over gallery spaces located mostly...
...trustees that "the new will be as new as can be, but the old will be preserved." If anything, he amplified the classicism of the space behind the old building by positioning the longest and most conventionally rectangular of his lenses at a perpendicular to the museum's rear façade. That created a square courtyard with a serene reflecting pool where the parking lot used...
...fighting were to somehow lead to an all-out civil war, Syrian stability will be undermined. Lebanon has had a Sunni fundamentalist element in the north for more than 25 years. As I've written before in this column, the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood used northern Lebanon as a rear base to seize the Syrian city of Hama in 1982. Lebanese Sunni, including fundamentalist Palestinians, were instrumental in the attack. In 2000, a Qaeda-affiliated group in northern Lebanon attacked the Lebanese army. Iraq and Afghanistan have only exacerbated the problem...
...home, a 1915 antebellum-style mansion in the wealthy Belle Meade section of Nashville, is laid out a bit like Gore himself: a gracious and formal Southern façade; slightly stuffy rooms when you walk in the door; and startlingly modern, relaxed, informal living spaces to the rear. The Gores bought the old place five years ago and are still retrofitting it, making it energy efficient with new windows, new heating and cooling units, solar panels on the roof. (The anti-Gore crowd zinged him recently because his electricity bill last August was 10 times the local average...
...Wisconsin placed third, Princeton fourth, and Brown—in a somewhat surprising result, given its top seeding after the morning’s heats—fifth, with Syracuse bringing up the rear...