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...preserve of the few, but now they're massively attended. We had to change to match that." By adding a new entrance for groups and permitting the museum's main doors on the Paseo del Prado to re-open for everyone else, the extension does away with the awkward side entries. The new wing also provides a suitable home for the necessary appurtenances of the modern museum (café, auditorium and gift shop), leaving the original 18th century building by Juan de Villanueva free of everything...
...harmoniously with the neoclassical architecture of the original." The new wing was never intended to bear the bold signature of a Pei pyramid or a Gehry curve; it manages instead to be quietly beautiful. An exquisitely crafted foyer of cedar, textured granite and brushed bronze is lined on one side with floor-to-ceiling windows that overlook the brick rear of the original museum. Galleries start underground and work their way up around the broad shaft of natural light that streams through Moneo's glass lantern. At the top comes the delicious surprise: a gorgeously restored Baroque cloister - dismantled from...
...this spring’s Harvard College Marathon Challenge, which funds Boston-area youth. “For Henry, service was a natural response to need,” Roger Porter, master of Dunster House, said yesterday. “He never turned away or walked on the other side of the road when the opportunity for service beckoned.” Fienning lived his love and talent for music as a member of the Krokodiloes, the all-male a capella group, and in the Harvard Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players’ production of “Ruddigore?...
...happy cat who spent his days sitting on my dad and watching Lady scare chipmunks in our yard. My senior spring, he died. After I rode home from the animal hospital with my parents—relegated to the back seat once more—I sat on the side of my bed and cried. Not just about Zorro, but about graduating high school, leaving my friends, and no longer being at home to notice the absence of the ball of fur that slept on the foot of my bed.It’s weird being here at school without...
...Students make their own choices when it comes to social life. We have legal policy to uphold,” says McLoughlin. Any negative side effects that might result are “less because of our policy but because the legal age is 21,” McLoughlin points out, adding that arguments to the contrary are “not quantifiable or verifiable...