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Stumble upon the steep-roofed, wood-framed structure by Ekkamai Skytrain station on Bangkok's bustling Sukhumvit Road, and you could be forgiven for thinking that you had come across a temple. Set amid lush greenery and running water, the building looks like a sanctuary from the clamor of the Thai capital. But in this case, coffee drinking?rather than meditation?is the preferred mode of retreat. Welcome to Banrie: Thailand's answer to Starbucks. It's a flag-flier for local coffee culture and serves a selection of domestically grown brews prepared the Thai way?with plenty of sugar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Temple of Tradition | 10/17/2005 | See Source »

...weeks, according to Matthew R. Greenfield ’08, one of three Undergraduate Council representatives who have been bringing students’ concerns about this construction project to the College and HRES since last spring. After the completion of the shuttle area, a six-foot high concrete and wood wall, called a Jersey Barrier, will be erected in the middle of Cowperthwaite Street. The construction project is scheduled to last through the spring of 2007. Last month, City Manager Robert W. Healy declined Harvard’s request to extend its permit allowing construction trucks to use nearby Grant...

Author: By Katherine M. Gray, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Construction barrier to be built near Dunster, Mather | 10/17/2005 | See Source »

Stumble upon the steep-roofed, wood-framed structure by Ekkamai Skytrain station on Bangkok's bustling Sukhumvit Road, and you could be forgiven for thinking that you had come across a temple. Set amid lush greenery and running water, the building looks like a sanctuary from the clamor of the Thai capital. But in this case, coffee drinking - rather than meditation - is the preferred mode of retreat. Welcome to Banrie, Thailand's answer to Starbucks. It's a flag-flier for local coffee culture and serves a selection of domestically grown brews prepared the Thai way - with plenty of sugar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Temple Of Tradition | 10/16/2005 | See Source »

...center “is kind of generic. This interior could be found in any speculative office park.” And, although the interior is far from being the bleak setting of “Office Space,” the brushed metal, opaque glass, and pale wood used throughout CGIS often recall the materials found in any Ikea catalog. The same problem reappears in the actual structure of the interior corridors and rooms. Inside and outside, the same shapes repeat themselves ad nauseam. “Between the [building’s] diagram and the details there...

Author: By Michaela N. De lacaze, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New CGIS Building Houses the Good, Bad, and Ugly | 10/13/2005 | See Source »

...have a few administrators’ sketchiness to thank.TO THE KONG!Rejected by the Advocate, the group moved to Eliot House. In focus groups, the architects explained, students and alumni say they want the new Loker pub to display a classic Harvard aesthetic, with taxidermied animals mounted on dark wood walls. The Eliot House common room had a big-screen high-definition television, a bar, a large neon beer sign, and several girls dressed in ’80’s mod.A few awkward moments later, the older architect was talking to one of these girls...

Author: By Elizabeth W. Green, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: This Is Work? | 10/12/2005 | See Source »

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