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...Hotel Nizza If you favor picturesque over posh, book into the artsy Hotel Nizza in a beautiful Gründerzeit building on Elbestrasse, five minutes from the main station. Enjoy the sunset from the roof garden. Single rooms cost from 375 to 3105, doubles between 3105 and 3135, depending on the season...
When construction on the new dorm is complete, the dorm will contain 20 percent more space for students, as well as bathrooms and kitchens for most individual suites, a common dining hall and a green roof for students...
...closest the duo has come to answering that is with HydraPier, an exhibition pavilion that Asymptote built (yes, actually built) last year at Harlemmermeer, in the Netherlands. The two-winged structure sits on an artificial lake created on land reclaimed from the sea. Embracing this quirky history, the roof of each wing is covered in a film of water so that as the wings dip toward each other visitors pass through a water alley formed by the runoff from the roof running down glass walls. That is, they walk through water--on dry land that was once underwater...
...leap in sales. Hearing Lang Lang on disc is gratifying, but you have to see him - even in the most fiendishly difficult passages he hardly even looks at the keyboard, his eyes searching out orchestra members to visibly join in the joy or pain of making music, or looking roof-wards as he rides the passion. "I always study the score carefully," says Lang Lang. "When I start to play, my mind remembers the theory, but my heart starts a journey. I straddle both the composer's world and my own. When I can successfully merge the two, that...
...favorite genius. He offered modernism without tears, without the headaches of Cubism or the thin air of abstraction. For middle-class Jews, he was also the chronicler of the world of their fathers, the poet of that lost, enchanted universe. By the mid-1960s, when Fiddler on the Roof took its title from one of Chagall's best-known motifs, his popular reputation was at its peak. But in the eyes of an art world that had always been a little unconvinced by him, he had become the middlebrow modernist, the go-to guy for shopworn lyricism, bathos and kitsch...