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...fact, it's the challenge of getting it just right--of capturing exactly what America wants--that Wynn finds intoxicating. Looking back, he has little sentimentality for his earlier projects. "I don't latch onto things. They're just exercises in practicing my trade," he says. But in the thick of creation, he's fully engaged. "The 21/2 years of designing this hotel were like 90 days to me. No one saw me. I worked six days a week, and I was in ecstasy," he says. "Then we had to get financing, and that was work." It dawned on Wynn...
...Microgeneration forces architects and builders to think green from the start. Homes in the three-year-old BedZED development, for instance, are south facing and fronted by conservatories to capture natural heat and light. There's no need for central heating because thick brick walls are heavily insulated, and windows are double- and triple-glazed, helping to retain the heat produced by domestic activities such as cooking. As a result, fuel bills can be as little as 10% of those for traditional houses of similar size. Lighting is low energy, too, and water-saving washing machines and low-flush toilets...
Bizarrely, a muted DVD of “Lawrence of Arabia” was being projected onto the ceiling, and a pair of fog machines blew a thick haze onto the floor. The punch flowed, the skirts flew, and the place filled up as Notorious B.I.G’s “Juicy” erupted from the speakers...
...compositions, which his students say are stylistically modern and experimental, often make their way into HRO’s concerts, and, over the course of the last 40 years, the orchestra has premiered many of his works. During that time, Yannatos has seen the organization through thick and thin, triumphantly leading during the good years and nursing it to health during draughts...
Last Sunday, a vast sea of flannel poured into the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA). The woodsman’s beards and thick-rimmed glasses afloat in the swirling maelstrom of intentional hipness bobbed up and down in eager anticipation for the night’s event, torn jeans resting in the plush cushions of the museum’s auditorium. It was a strange atmosphere, as if this back-country-via-Inman-Square audience had been lured in and trapped in the MFA’s relatively sterile all-purpose theatre, and only when the night?...