IN 2006, when Omer Arbel, left, was hired to design a 7,800-square-foot duplex penthouse for a bachelor in Vancouver, he placed the living room, dining room and bedrooms in locations with spectacular views. But that left the kitchen, master bathroom, powder room and office not dark, exactly, but lacking lots of direct sunlight or intriguing […]
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WHEN Dr. Louis Aledort, and his wife, Ruth, above, bought their six-room apartment on the Upper West Side in 2001, they interviewed several architects, and mentioned to each of them that they had an art collection. Only one architect, Richard Lavenstein, a partner at Bond Street Architecture & Design in Manhattan, asked to see the […]
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By ELAINE LOUIE
AT home, where we cook and eat, sleep and dream, read and entertain, lighting has to be flexible, unlike the purposefully soft, romantic lighting in a restaurant or the dark, dramatic lighting in a nightclub.
“You can’t borrow ideas from the commercial and apply them” wholesale to residential settings, said Linnaea Tillett, […]
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By CARLOTTA GALL and ABDUL WAHEED WAFA
KABUL, Afghanistan — At least nine Afghan police officers and a civilian were killed early Thursday in a firefight between American forces and the officers in Ghazni Province, just south of the capital, local officials said.
The American forces were searching houses in a village on the outskirts of […]
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By IAN FISHER and ELISABETTA POVOLEDO
ROME — Italy’s government finally fell Thursday, after Prime Minister Romano Prodi lost a confidence vote that made it clear that Italy’s leaders know they face a deep political and economic crisis but are venomously divided over how to solve it.
Emblematic of those divisions, during the debate one […]
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By THOM SHANKER and STEVEN LEE MYERS
WASHINGTON — With its international mandate in Iraq set to expire in 11 months, the Bush administration will insist that the government in Baghdad give the United States broad authority to conduct combat operations and guarantee civilian contractors specific legal protections from Iraqi law, according to administration and […]
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