Long divorced, he lives alone and simply, but in the nicest house in town -- a commodious, cool brick mansion originally owned by an oilman, now containing Mr. McMurtry's personal library of tens of thousands of books.
Our office, located inside a cool brick building that used to be a leather factory, is buzzing with activity.
Unlike the cool beige brick and stone of the Dakota, the Navarro Flats buildings were hot-red brick set off against a wild cliff of stone-trimmed arches, turrets, gables and other features — an arrangement that Scientific American called "most unsatisfactory" in 1884.
Conceived by a former design writer, the décor is quirky and cool: exposed brick walls and furniture made in the city and its surrounds, much of which is for sale.
Completed in 1960, it was in harmony with the ethic of the '50s: a long, industrial-style wing of glass block set back on 49th, connected to a romantic undulating auditorium wing of cool gray brick shaped like a guitar.
As I walked through the large heavy double doors of the main entrance to Union Theological Seminary this morning I realized it would be my last time walking down the cool glazed brick paved hallway and wending my way to the Burke Library entrance.
Engaging the community in pot-making provided a platform for evaporative cooling through which we led workshops on making both the clay pot cooler and the brick cooler.
As Ingels saw it, architects before Koolhaas had tended to establish themselves "by creating a specific aesthetic that's based on certain assumptions — that, you know, curvy is more beautiful than rectangular, or concrete is cooler than brick or glass.
A process is irreversible when there is no way to undo the change without leaving a mark on the surroundings or ''the rest of the universe". In the example with the bricks, we could undo the change by putting a Carnot refrigerator between the bricks (both at after putting them together) and cooling one brick down to and heating the other brick to to restore the initial state.
Created using local materials, it cools its contents through the evaporation of water and can take two main forms: 1) a portable clay pot cooler and 2) a sedentary brick cooler.
Last year the Shubert Organization refaced the former Horse Exchange's 50th Street front in new brown brick, cool and reserved, in a design by Menz & Cook.
