The wedge building had been Havana's Basque center — the centro Vasco — and it had had jai-alai courts and lodgings and a dining room, and Juanito, the pretend world-famous jai-alai player, had started his cooking career by making meals for the Basques who came.
I went back to Centro Vasco one more time before leaving Cuba — not the old place, in the wedge building, but the new, Moorish one, in a section of Havana called Vedado, which is now a jumble of houses and ugly new hotels but for decades had been a military installation.
Indeed, photographs are the thin edge of the wedge to building new social products.
The wedge-shaped building is now a graceful boutique hotel, with small but glamorous rooms and friendly staff.
LAST Monday evening, in a smoky, wedge-shaped building where 65th Place meets Cypress Hills Street in Glendale, Queens, Serbian locals, mostly older men, filtered in after work.
It is in the interior part of the three-story wedge-shaped building, and with no street-facade walls is protected from the noises that can sometimes pervade this formerly industrial neighborhood.
To prepare the show, Gamper lived in the gallery for six weeks, constructing site-specific furniture installations on each of the nine floors (including two basement levels) of the 1860 wedge-shaped building.
The wedge-shaped building, which zooms from zero height to 23 feet, will appear to break from the ground like an ice floe or a rising continental plate, its roof softening the boxy bulk of the travertine Lincoln Center campus.
Moving the Schenck house involved, among many other things, using thin wooden wedges and building jacks to pry apart timbers that were living trees when the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth.
1-3-18 Chuo-cho, Meguro-ku, 011-81-3-3719-8121; Chano Ma Shoehornedo Ma Shoehorned into the top floor of a wedge-shaped building, this cafe-bar is gussied up with midcentury furniture, mod chandeliers and a wall of daybeds.
A wedge-shaped building on Leary Way in Ballard once was home to music producer Jack Endino's Reciprocal Recording studio, where he recorded Nirvana's first demos and "Bleach," the band's debut album on Sub Pop.
