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Month: October 2019

The interior design at New York’s best restaurants is more playful than ever

The interior design at New York’s best restaurants is more playful than ever

While dining out for the big recent revamp of our EAT List—our comprehensive list of the best 100 restaurants in New York right now—one thing became clear: The age of white tablecloths is over.  It would be too simple to describe the way that some of the city’s most exciting dining destinations have evolved their interior design as being Instagram-friendly. Surely, that plays a role: it’s a built in marketing tool that helps spread the word about the great food. But part of…

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AD100 Architect David Adjaye to Design Three Houses of Worship Alongside One Another

AD100 Architect David Adjaye to Design Three Houses of Worship Alongside One Another

On Abu Dhabi’s Saadiyat Island, the Louvre Abu Dhabi by Jean Nouvel and the forthcoming Guggenheim Abu Dhabi by Frank Gehry, the Zayed National Museum by Lord Norman Foster, the Abu Dhabi Performing Arts Centre by Zaha Hadid Architects, and the Maritime Museum by Tadao Ando will soon have a trio of neighbors by another world-renowned peer. AD100 architect Sir David Adjaye recently won the competition to design the Abrahamic Family House there, three religious structures whose orientation and adjacency…

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Graphic-design students have Dinner With Strangers

Graphic-design students have Dinner With Strangers

Five Shepherd University graphic-design students were able to spend time with community members in their chosen career field during the first Dinner with Strangers for the academic year. Ellen Smith hosted the dinner Sept. in her Shepherd Village home and invited guest Mary Watters. Smith recently retired from teaching graphic design at Hagerstown Community College and previously owned a desktop publishing company and freelance graphic design business. Bachelor of Fine Arts majors with a graphic design concentration who participated were…

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