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...abandoned elevated railway line in lower Manhattan into a very unusual park. They had already completed a housing project in Gifu, Japan. And on Dec. 7 their first major building in the U.S., the new home of Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), will open on a prominent waterfront site as the first segment of the city's grand scheme to redevelop Boston Harbor...
Since the ICA is one of the linchpins of the city's plan to redevelop the waterfront, it was important to Medvedow and her architects to make the building a place where people could gather even when they weren't there for the art. It sits on a gray wood esplanade that, if all goes as planned, will become part of 47 miles of new harborside walkways. Diller and Scofidio have used the same wood to create a wide outdoor staircase that doubles as a bleachers-style seating area. It's located just under the ICA's major exterior flourish...
...part of a movement that is pushing back hard against the government's power to meddle with property owners. The campaign is largely a response to the Supreme Court's controversial 2005 decision allowing the city of New London, Conn., to raze private homes for a commercial waterfront project. The ruling struck a deep chord in the American psyche; that the government could seize your house or business in order to build a road for everyone's use was one thing, but the idea that it could hand your property over to private developers was, to many, intolerable...
...times--Baron Cohen never dropped character. It's an impressive, perhaps insane, performance: Johnny Knoxville with a sense of humor, Andy Kaufman with a desire to please, Peter Sellers set loose on the public instead of David Niven. "It's like Marlon Brando's performance in On the Waterfront," says Charles. "Before that, everything was stylized, the John Barrymore school. After that, you couldn't act in the old style anymore. I believe that Sacha's performance does the same thing...
...region has spas and resorts aplenty for those who can't live without dvd players, martini lounges and business centers for a week. And besides, after a day's diving, waterskiing or canoeing, you'll be happily tired and probably unwilling to venture further than Paradiso's tiny waterfront restaurant and its menu of locally caught seafood, prepared Italian or Sumatran style. Another highlight of a stay on Cubadak is the cost. Nightly rates start at $80 including full board, airport transfers, trekking tours and use of snorkeling equipment, while rental of diving gear is a mere...