Word: towered
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...event and to its significance," he says. "But we also want to reassert its vitality." So all around and above, Libeskind offers life rearing up in triumph. Above the hole there's the museum in his signature angular style. On three surrounding sides is an ensemble of towers, including a 70 story office structure with a spire that rises to the patriotic altitude of 1,776 ft.--the world's tallest building. In a gesture that harks back to the ancient solar markers of Egypt and Peru, he has designed his public squares so that each year on Sept...
...first-years pulse to a grinding beat in a Mather suite under a shower of beer falling from the cans held high above their heads. A typical scene…from the Harvard Radcliffe Television (HRTV) soap opera “Ivory Tower...
...passive, models provide their own narration like Veronica Read or, like Yokomizo's Strangers, decide how they'll be depicted. And processes and mechanical aids once hidden behind the Romantic image of the artist are now deliberately exposed and documented. David Batchelor's The Spectrum of Brick Lane, a tower of light boxes, reveals its naked anatomy of trailing wires and reused components, echoing the untidy aspects of a built-up area as well as its brash artificial sources of color. Another theme Nesbitt detects is art that "invites a direct encounter," like Jim Lambie's jazzy floor of multicolored...
Even though it was in the real estate section, I took it as a personal ad. "Studio for rent on a barge parked near the Eiffel Tower. Perfect for an expatriate businessman." I wasn't a businessman and the rent was too high, but I had come to Paris to fall in love, and love requires sacrifice. Besides, living on a houseboat beat the hell out of an artist's garret when it came to writing postcards home. Traveling is like dating to me, so when I handed two-months deposit in cash to my new boat lord, it felt...
...tour of Middle America last summer in large part didn’t change my opinion of the region. Even though I had seen the Eiffel Tower and the Great Wall of China, Door Country Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula were new to me. Of course, much of the Midwest is more picturesque than I had imagined, more diverse and not quite the sprawl of suburban family values from sitcoms like Family Ties (Columbus, Ohio) or Family Matters (Chicago, IL). My view of the Midwest is more like those John Hughes movies that take place in the fictional suburb...