An undulating façade as colorfully complicated as the mind itself. A surprise to find such inspiration amid the noise and neon. The Frank Gehry-designed Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in downtown Las Vegas supports patients with memory and movement disorders and their… Read More
Monthly archives of “August 2015”
Stars align
Back in January, AFAR Magazine published a piece, “Where to Travel This Year, According to Your Astrological Sign.” Apparently, my Aquarian modus operandi is eccentricity and change, and my itinerary should be anything weird: “Aquarians love things that are more unique and uncommon than anything… Read More
Angel’s wings
Searching for solace in the concrete sails of Richard Meier’s Jubilee Church in Rome – a Modernist moment for the Vatican, completed in 2003, a beautiful statement for a parish church in an outer borough (that I tried to hoof it too in June).… Read More
Effects loop
Summer in rural America, a wish-you-were-here postcard framing a county fair. My recent foray reintroduced rollercoasters into my life. And now this, a same-same-but-different scene of gravity (and culture) defiance from France: “Stellar,” a public art piece by Baptiste Debombourg in Nantes. The sculpture, part of… Read More