Word: soundness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this habit of makin' the same thing sound both good and bad, like he's an optimist and a pessimist at the same time. Nasty little habit, you know, because his real thoughts tend to get buried upstairs, with all the xxxxx's and ooooo...
...fountain makers use water to set off sculptural shapes that evoke nature but are in themselves totally abstract. Even in areas of water scarcity, fountains, thanks to efficient recycling systems, do not waste much water, and modern architects are free to enhance austere downtown buildings with sweet sound and motion or, using water in pools, give majesty to otherwise humdrum plazas...
...added fountains to the foreplaza of New York City's Seagram Building, which he co-designed with Mies van der Rohe. Johnson's most conspicuous recent water work is Fort Worth's Water Garden. The garden has three pools, each with a different speed-sound characteristic-"quiet, fizz and rush." The "quiet" pool is surrounded by a high wall with a continuous gutter that spills softly along its top, keeping the walls continuously dark and wet, adding to a public sensation of cool quiet and private peace. The "fizz" pool shoots up some 25 spray jets, producing...
...house is not taxed at all if it is reinvested in another home within a year. Even if the profit is pocketed, it usually is regarded as a capital gain and only half of it is taxed. Thus buying a house in most cases really is a sound way to build equity and generally more economical than paying rent...
...Yard always looks pretty much the same. When it's nice out, you can see things with remarkable clarity--from a window in Holworthy you can pick out people frolicking in front of Matthews, and the sound of stereos blaring out of windows rattles the sills far into the night. Saturday night was that kind of evening, but it was special because it was the first big night of Freshman Week, that unavoidable whirl of partying, anticipation and one-upsmanship that is somehow an appropriate introduction to the strange little world that is Harvard...