Consider the Fed with a nod to Ted Sep 13, 2009
Cambridge-based architect Hugh Stubbins designed a soaring tower whose two main supports rise beautifully from a landscaped ground plane. They contain virtually all of the mechanical equipment, including elevators, leaving the floors suspended between them like bridges. (Boston Globe -- Editorial)
City pushes 'urban village' for Stanford hospitals Apr 28, 2009
"Those buildings don't seem to be responding to the ground plane, to the urban experience we want to be successful," Garber said. "There's no connection of buildings to pedestrian movement. "This project has been talked about as having the largest impact on Palo Alto ever," he added. "There's responsibility to do not just good buildings, not to do just good design, but to do great buildings and great design. (Palo Alto Online, CA)
Snake-hunt on board Australian jet as baby pythons escape Apr 17, 2009
FROM OTHER NEWS SITES Baby pythons escape on Australian flight - 5 hrs ago Baby pythons escape during flight - 5 hrs ago Baby Pythons Escape During Flight In Australia - 7 hrs ago Snakes escape, ground plane - 10 hrs ago Baby Pythons Escape on Australian Passenger Flight - 10 hrs ago. SHARED. (BBC News -- Asia-Pacific)
Wayne Thiebaud and the nature of illusion Apr 5, 2009
These elements, and ghostly profiles of them traced in disparate hues or textures, appear to rain down the panel when it hangs upright, but we also read them as fallen on the surface - a ground plane in a double sense. The titles of Osato's show and the paintings in it evoke ancient Iraq, giving an oblique topical edge to the hint persistent in her work that it records an archaeology of the present. (San Francisco Chronicle)
