Prefab indeed has the potential to lend itself to being \”green\” by using materials more efficiently, wasting less space, and generally creating structures that are lower maintenance.
Although old-age homes have always existed in Israel for those who cannot care for themselves, it is only in recent years that the American idea of retiring to a comfortable community of seniors has taken off here.
Brenda Levin, associate architect for the renovation and restoration of the original Griffith Observatory building and grounds.
\”I\’m a colorful person,\” Tochterman said. \”I like color; I like texture; I like mixing things together. I think my customer is a sophisticated, ageless, confident woman.\”
\”Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture,\” opening Nov. 19 at the Museum of Contemporary Art downtown, proposes that building design and haute couture have increasingly begun to overlap and borrow ideas from one another.
The cult status of The New York Times Crossword puzzle is the subject of \”Wordplay,\” an uneven but entertaining documentary by director Patrick Creadon about the people who design the fiendishly difficult crossword puzzles for The Times and the gifted eccentrics who devote their lives to puzzle solving and who compete against each other with all the fury and devotion of Olympic athletes.
Gehry\’s creative solution — his psychoanalytic victory — was to embrace the delight of free-form design, while making sure that his buildings met the needs of his clients. His freedom in designing what appear to be purely sculptural objects that subsequently win rapturous praise must make him the envy of all architects who secretly wish they could find such willing clients.
For more than two decades, Alice Greenwald has been helping to give people a palpable understanding of the Holocaust through her work with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.
\”Susie Fishbein has done for Jewish cooking what [rabbi and author] Aryeh Kaplan did for beginning Judaism,\” said Rabbi Shimon Kraft of the 613 Mitzvah Store on Pico Boulevard. \”They\’re buying her cookbooks en masse. She\’s a genius at editing and putting everything all together.\”
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