Writer and editor Midge Decter, who left liberalism to help lay the intellectual foundations of the neoconservative movement and its so-called culture wars over feminism, gay rights, and other social issues, died Monday. He was 94 years old. His daughter Naomi Decter confirmed the death. No other details were given. Ms. Decter was at the …
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Consider the Model 187, the Matrimonial Bed. “It is very important for the couple to choose the right time to make the bed and not buy one at the drop of a hat,” Mr Alexander wrote. “The bed is unlikely to have the right feeling until the couple has had a hard time together and …
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Growing up in a poor village in Burkina Faso, Francis Kéré did not play football with other children. He helped repair houses. After winning a scholarship to a professional carpentry school in Germany and attending architecture school at the Technical University of Berlin, Kéré was in no hurry to join a prestigious firm. As an …
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Mexican architect Frida EscobedoAt 38, the youngest architect to design the Serpentine Mansion in 2018. Metropolitan Museum of ArtIt’s a new $500 million Modern and contemporary art wing, the museum announced on Sunday. “This is a very important commission,” the museum director said. Max Hollein, in a phone call. “This collection will continue to grow …
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Mexican architect Frida EscobedoAt 38, the youngest architect to design the Serpentine Mansion in 2018. Metropolitan Museum of ArtIt’s a new $500 million Modern and contemporary art wing, the museum announced on Sunday. “This is a very important commission,” the museum director said. Max Hollein, in a phone call. “This collection will continue to grow …
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What the firms were proposing was a series of neighborhoods, each with its own sheep. They also persuaded the city to use material from excavations for the twin towers to build the southwestern tip of Manhattan rather than throw it into the sea. Built on this new landmass beginning in 1980, Battery Park City had …
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Ricardo Bofill, the Spanish architect behind some of the most amazing buildings in the world, died Friday in a hospital in Barcelona. He was 82 years old. His son, Pablo, said the cause was Covid-19. Mr. Bofill’s best-known work included mass housing projects, many built in France in the 1980s, with heavily classical elements that …
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MADRID — Spanish architect and city planner Oriol Bohigas, who helped make his hometown of Barcelona one of the main tourist destinations in the Mediterranean, died at his home there on November 30. He was 95 years old. His death was confirmed by his son, Josep Bohigas, who added that his father had had Parkinson’s …
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Alan Lapidus, a New York architect with a playful and pragmatic style who designed major hotels and casinos, died October 15 at his home in Naples, Maine. He was 85 years old. His son, Adam Lapidus, said the cause was prostate cancer. Mr. Lapidus’ legacy included the lofty Crowne Plaza Times Square Manhattan, designed to …
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NASHVILLE — Bob Moore, architect of the Nashville Sound of the 1950s and ’60s, who played bass on thousands of popular recordings, including Elvis Presley’s “Return to Sender” and Patsy Cline’s “Crazy,” was here in a hospital Sept. 22 died. . He was 88 years old. His death was confirmed by his wife, Kittra Bernstein …
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