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...elephants altogether, some as soon as they can find homes for the animals and others after the deaths of the ones they have. For zookeepers, it's a continuation of a reform movement that began a generation ago and swept through most major U.S. zoos. The old concrete-and-steel cages that resembled prisons for animals are mostly gone. In fact, the cages themselves are mostly gone. The barriers between people and animals today consist largely of moats and unobtrusive ramparts that give the exhibits the feel of miniature wild habitats...
...that it's a 21st century dream factory. Two vertical posts that rise from the roof may bring to mind industrial chimneys, but they're actually electronic signboards. Words and images shoot upward like the flames of bygone furnaces. The Guthrie's exterior walls are covered in dark-blue steel meant to recall grain silos. But the metal is imprinted with images from past Guthrie productions, scenes with great performers like Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy. "There are 'ghosts' on the walls," says Nouvel. "These are the ancestors of the place...
Then again, he may mean just what he says about feeling the noise. Paradox, disassociation and derangement of the senses are things Nouvel loves to play with. That window, for instance, is set in a deep recess of mirrored stainless steel. Look up and you see, reflected in the upper panel, the cars on the roadway beneath you. Look down and the lower panel reflects the sky. Up, earth; down, sky. His Cartier Foundation in Paris is a glass-walled structure with a freestanding glass wall situated a few yards in front of it. The effect is to create multiple...
...STEEL Opening June 28, Superman Returns has it all: those manly virtues of heroic strength, risk taking and a sense of sacrifice, along with big explosions, kryptonite and Kate Bosworth as Lois Lane. As for risk taking: back away from the tights...
When thirteen tons of aluminum and steel have demanded a push, the type that higher powers never had in mind when they designed human bodies and charter buses, ordinary motorists have been known to get angry. Peter Brand, head coach of the Harvard men’s and women’s fencing teams, was getting there on February 12, the morning of the Ivy League tournament at Columbia. He took one last look through his bus window at the worst New York City snowstorm on record, a blizzard that dropped 26.9 inches of snow on Central Park, and grabbed...