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There is one connection to the University. In the mid-1980s, someone donated a cast-iron sundial in John Harvard's name; it now sits in Hylton Park--"the Harvard park, we all call it," Gilmore says...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvards of The World | 9/13/1996 | See Source »

There is one connection to the University. In the mid-1980s, someone donated a cast-iron sundial in John Harvard's name; it now sits in Hylton Park--"the Harvard park, we all call it," Gilmore says...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvards of The World | 9/9/1996 | See Source »

...makes a virtue of simplemindedness, Isozaki's building is happily improbable. After entering via a large red granite cube punched with dozens of not exactly functional windows, the army of bean counters who work there pass through a 120-ft.-tall, open-to-the-sky cylinder -- actually, a vast sundial -- whose floor is covered in loose river stones. Ever been to a cathedral on Venus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best of 1991: DESIGN | 1/6/1992 | See Source »

...makes a virtue of simplemindedness, Isozaki's building is happily improbable. After entering via a large red granite cube punched with dozens of not exactly functional windows, the army of bean counters who work there pass through a 120-ft.-tall, open-to-the-sky cylinder -- actually, a vast sundial -- whose floor is covered in loose river stones. Ever been to a cathedral on Venus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best of 1991 | 1/6/1992 | See Source »

...across its base, an object that from a distance would appear to be floating in air. It would be 2 1/2 ft. high and have water flowing evenly and slowly across its flat surface. Underneath the water, etched in the stone and looking like points of a sundial, would be the words -- the names and the events -- that would tell the history of the civil rights era. They begin with 17 MAY 1954 SUPREME COURT OUTLAWS SCHOOL SEGREGATION IN BROWN VS. BOARD OF EDUCATION and end with 4 APR 1968 DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. ASSASSINATED MEMPHIS, TN (there will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: First She Looks Inward: MAYA LIN | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

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