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Before every Harvard women's hockey or softball game, Theresa Kennedy is a very busy person. As a Harvard trainer, she collects bandages, ice and other medical items from her office in Dillon Field House and heads off to the game site...
...Architect Belts (Boston-New York- Philadelphia, Los Angeles-San Diego), but in plain, out-of-the-way Albuquerque. His work is not strictly modernist or postmodernist, classical or avant-garde; the pigeonholes do not apply. Predock, a self-described "cosmic modernist" who senses the "emanations" of a particular building site and says only half jokingly that he "would rather talk about UFOs than Palladio," is nevertheless creating a remarkable body of work -- tough and sensual, fabulously imagined, altogether persuasive. He may be the first great New Age architect...
...western-memorabilia museum at the University of Wyoming will be a stone cone, suggesting a Teton or a tepee. His lack of a signature style is born of a faith in the uniqueness of each project. Predock believes that if he contemplates the client's requirements and experiences the site intensely enough, the right building will emerge. "This is an adventure," he explained to a couple who asked him to design a house. "It's a poetic encounter...
Perched in the best section of "old Bel Air" in west Los Angeles, 668 St. Cloud Road is the newly chosen site of Ronald and Nancy Reagan's post-White House home. In selecting the place, the Reagans wisely relied on the traditional real estate mantra -- location, location, location. But they chose an unusual procedure for acquiring their new homestead: they are leasing it from a consortium of about 20 friends and investors who purchased it specifically for the President and the First Lady...
Last year the nine students converted a garbage dump into a public plaza. The dump site "because it was the only open area, was also used as a playground by children," says Jim Palos, an alumnus of last year's program and its Midwest coordinator. "We also built a drainage system under it so excess water from the daily rain could escape," Palos says...