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Returning to Ireland has been something of a clanfest, highlighted by my journey to see the O’Dea Castle. Actually more of a feudal tower, I pranced about it with a sense of ownership, and I imagine at least a few of the O’Dea/O’Day visitors in the guestbook came to stake their own claim to this ancestral abode. Crossing the country to visit relatives—cousins once or many times removed—presents me with open arms and hugs from people only rarely seen. What begins as an awkward...
...SAPPORO Take a comfort break on top of the city's highest building. Toilets at the JR Tower's observation room are 160 meters above street level and walled with glass. According to the designer, "one is supposed to do it as if one is taking a leak into a river from the top of a bridge...
...Foster for global reinsurers Swiss Re, the building's elegant outline has reassured locals that architecture can be both attractive and high-rise, even in a city that, as late as the 1960s, prohibited the construction of buildings taller than St. Paul's Cathedral. In fact, the 40-story tower has already sparked a rethink of London's urban landscape, with three more statement skyscrapers planned in its wake. It has also become the capital's most fashionable-and exclusive-events venue. The top two floors house a glass-domed private restaurant that can be hired for functions. Guided tours...
This type of anti-Harvard sentiment was not new in Riverside, a working-class community along the Charles River, where residents feel they were pushed aside to make way for some of Harvard’s tallest and most hated buildings, including the enormous concrete Peabody Terrace and Mather Tower...
Fonseca was active in Harvard-Radcliffe Television (HRTV), serving as vice president of the executive board and as a director of HRTV’s soap opera, “Ivory Tower...