QUILTED BEAUTY

摘要

An architect's dream at the drafting board can oftentimes turn into a contractor's nightmare during execution. But in the case of the stylish brick exterior of the black-box theater at Beaver Country Day School in Chestnut Hill, Mass., it was the contractors who were left dreaming. "Every morning they'd tell me they had been dreaming in patterns all night long," says project architect Arthur Duffy of the masons from Northeast Masonry Corp. who crafted the brick wall. "They were never bored laying this brick." Duffy's firm, HMFH Architects of Cambridge, Mass., conjured up the complex, quilt-like design scheme to distinguish the new black-box theater from the surrounding classroom build- ings on the 16-acre campus. The theater is part of school's new three-story, 30,000-sf Visual and Performing Arts Center.