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...shifting his parabolic floor plates gradually forward, floor by floor, but always keeping them tethered to an upright concrete core, Libeskind achieves the seemingly impossible: a supple tower that can gently bend toward us. "It's sheltering," he says. "Like the Pietŕ." Like the Pietŕ? Just about every tall building ever built says, "Who's your daddy?" Are we ready for a world in which a few can say, "Who's your mommy...
...will be building a tower soon in New York City. His plan is for a structure that separates a dozen condos into discrete four-story modules--town houses in the sky. Each apartment is a $30 million, 10,000-sq.ft. package that's separately cantilevered from an 835-ft. central core, then further supported by exposed trusses that attach to steel piers running the full height of the building. The effect is a dynamic oscillation of forms, with alternating voids and volumes, something utterly unlike the inert slab that is the typical tower...
...global university,” he says, “the core essence of everyone on faculty embodies the global perspective...
...College Hockey Online/College Sports Television and USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine polls. In the former, Harvard advanced one spot, from No. 11 to No. 10, and in the latter, the Crimson jumped two positions from No. 13 to No. 11...Pelle’s former team, the New York Apple Core, was in attendance for the Crimson’s win over Maine on Dec. 11. Pelle scored a goal and an assist in the game. One of those former teammates, Billy Keenan, has reportedly committed to Harvard for next season...
...Both ?The Passion? and ?Fahrenheit? benefitted from the curiosity factor, once media hype and early box office numbers attracted audiences beyond the movies? cores. But the core was important. Conservative Christians were enormously important in making ?The Passion? the hit it was. They got the faithful to the theaters. And in November, the same churches and social groups got the faithful to the polls...