Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Alluding to the sometimes bizarre recommendations of feng shui masters, an ancient Chinese proverb states, "If you invite a geomancer into your house, you may as well start packing to move now." Hong Kong's Exchange Square building has managed to remain on its site -- with a few strategic revisions. During his survey, Feng Shui Master Chung Ying-Mei decreed that the structure's base must form a U shape, which he claimed was much more receptive to the good fortune emanating from the bay. Architect Remo Riva complied. Says Riva: "He said we should also put up an antenna...
...Krier's IBA architecture is great, all of it is good. His best is the main building (of nine) of a rather formal housing estate near the Tiergarten, West Berlin's big central park. The main facade, an outthrust white shield, could be the refurbished fragment of an ancient Roman circus. But in pure postmodern fashion, the metaphors are freely mixed: facing the long central lawn on the interior is a handsome pair of neo-medieval towers in red brick, and windows copied, it seems, from a 19th century factory...
...chutzpah -- and fun -- it would be tough to top the vaudeville The Comedy of Errors that opened last week at New York City's Lincoln Center after playing at Chicago's Goodman Theater in 1983 and the Los Angeles Olympic Arts Festival in 1984. In this madcap vision of ancient Ephesus, everyone must learn to juggle...
They gathered on the banks of the Thames River in Gales Ferry, Conn. dressed in a melange of garden party dresses, colorful Jams, L.L. Bean blucher mocasins and ancient rowing blazers with embroidered crests of crimson, gold and navy filigree, borne with the elegant pride of an era long gone...
...while, as the parents, girlfriends and ancient oarsmen stood expectantly on the sidelines, it looked as if Harvard Coach Harry Parker might call the whole thing off. Twice he ventured off the Red Top floating dock, causing nervous spectators to squint into the sun to decipher his inscrutable facial expression. The word passed from one knot of people to the next...