Among these are 40 fragments of painted plasters and glazed bricks housed today in the Freer Study Collection at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.
This dialogue between martyrdom and resurrection continues into the deeply stirring Palm Sunday installation: 18 glazed cabinets that house vertically mounted branches of vegetation (mangroves, sunflower pods and dracenae as well as palms themselves).
WHAT WE LIKE Thai crab cake, crispy calamari salad, shrimp and vegetable tempura, spicy mango chicken, "wok basil" shrimp and scallops, roasted Chilean sea bass, Tengda curried seafood hot pot, roasted salmon, Asian spiced glazed duck breast, house sashimi, sushi variety; all desserts.
Also impressive is the glazed entrance lobby, housed in what used to be the taxi rank.
The main part was used as a paper store, and there's also a courtyard that was originally covered by a glazed roof, which housed all the printing machinery.
EVERYBODY complains about the prototypical, boring white glazed brick apartment houses, but then people make fun, too, of the adventurous microburst of highly colored glazed brick buildings that struck New York around 1960.
In at least one rendering of the tower, the cylinder was topped with a glazed hemisphere that housed radio studios and transmitters, while according to some accounts the lower reaches of the monument were to be clad with cinema screens.
In the late 1960's, the engineer Yeshayahu Eshkar designed a clutch of small, highly colored glazed brick apartment houses in the West 80's off Central Park West: a blue one at 69 West 85th, the translucent green one at 49 West 85th, and a deep brown one at 55 West 83rd Street.
