Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...glass walls admit sprinkles of sunshine. An intoxicating smell of worldly foliage floats about the sultry environment and various coins from around the world glisten from the bottom of an 18-inch-deep pond, inviting all to make a wish in this majestic structure. For the intrepid, geometrically arranged stones provide an entertaining romp. Just be careful not to fall in--the inhabitants of this imported Japanese fish pond have been known to attach themselves to the toes and fingers of intruders. Just over the River, these Coy fish slither in and out of the stone caverns designed for their...
Mentor Sally E. Stone says her mentoring relationship has been particularly beneficial because she and her mentee come from very different backgrounds. Stone is Caucasian and from the South, while her mentee is Haitian and originally from New York...
...Stone says because of the program, Sally has "a sense of the broader possibilities for life after the Longfellow School...
...site for hours. The challenge was to do a contemporary building that could face the Roman temple directly but not be intimidated by it." The result, a crystalline rectangular structure with sun screens, does exactly that. Its transparent grid defers to the pillar-and-architrave opacity of the ancient stone building without mimicking...
Light is part of the very subject matter of Foster's buildings, along with steel, glass and stone. When Foster speaks of "the spiritual dimension" of architecture, and its power to "lift the spirit," he's talking about the action of light in space. Anyone who supposes that technology, or the exacting use of modern materials, implies a break with the past should look at Foster's work--and learn...