Word: fa
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Crystal bursts from the old museum's limestone in pointed shards of anodized aluminum. It touches the ground with the jagged footprint of a fever chart. Windows slice across the surface in narrow diagonal stripes or in large trapezoids that cut widely up and across the building's various façades and open views to several floors at once. Though the impulse to enter is irresistible, it may take a moment to find the door. In other words, like his Jewish Museum in Berlin and his recent addition to the Denver Art Museum, this is another Libeskind building sure...
...STUDIO KACHAMA: From its austere black façade, you know you're in for something different at Kachama Perez's nearly two-year-old store, tel: (66) 5321 9499. Taking traditional appliqué patches from nearby Hmong, Karen and Yao villages, Perez-who studied textile design in Japan-splices them into her woven creations with colorful beads and shimmering organza. The effect is stunning (as are the prices, with a 5.5-meter wall hanging costing over $9,000). Those on tighter budgets can take solace in the more affordable pillowcases, table runners and scarves...
...Tipper Gore's home, a 1915 antebellum-style mansion in the wealthy Belle Meade section of Nashville, is laid out a bit like Gore himself: a gracious and formal Southern façade; slightly stuffy rooms when you walk in the door; and startlingly modern, relaxed, informal living spaces to the rear. The Gores bought the old place five years ago and are still retrofitting it, making it energy efficient with new windows, new heating and cooling units, solar panels on the roof. (The anti-Gore crowd zinged him recently because his electricity bill last August was 10 times...
...restaurant in India that had made Apple's list. It's located in one of the side streets in Kala Ghoda, a vibrant sliver of private art galleries, museums and restaurants in the city's Fort district. Don't be put off by the street-level façade, which was wooden until recently but is now, because of decay, being concreted over...
...early '90s, he was Hizballah Secretary General's Hasan Nasrallah's primary Iranian contact, and certainly in a position now to provide evidence of Nasrallah's involvement in terrorism. Asgari was the primary Iranian contact for one of the world's most lethal and capable terrorists, 'Imad Fa'iz Mughniyah. Mughniyah is indicted in the U.S. for the 1985 hijacking of TWA Flight 847 and the murder of a Navy diver...