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Illustrates sculptor and carpenter Patrick Dougherty's fascination with structures made from twigs and branches. His installation in Hawaii features twisted saplings of strawberry guava blended into a monkey-pod tree, while Toad Hall in Santa Barbara is part vegetation and part architecture.

The clarinet, violoncello, and piano trio is an important and viable chamber music genre. While many people are familiar with the Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms clarinet trios, few know many others. Through my research I found more than 125 trios for this combination. I selected nine trios from the last two centuries as the focus of this project, “Selected Clarinet Trios: Unknown or Forgotten.” From the Classical period I selected Archduke Rudolph's Trio and Anton Eberl's Grand Trio, Op. 36. These trios are good examples of Classical performance style written by composers who were important historic figures and wrote several compositions for the clarinet. They highlight both the lyrical and virtuosic aspects of the clarinet while providing alternatives to the period's better-known clarinet trios. From the Romantic period I featured Louise Farrenc's Trio, Op. 44 and Carl Frühling's Trio in A moll, Op. 40. Farrenc's clarinet trio has stylistic elements from both the Classical and Romantic periods as well as German and French influences. In contrast Frühling's Trio in A moll is a late Romantic work, which showcases the best qualities of Romantic-style clarinet. Five trios are from the 20th century. Robert Muczynski's Fantasy Trio, Op. 26 has distinctive motifs, transparent textures and lively asymmetric rhythms using the clarinet's large range and variety of musical sounds to enhance the combination of American music with “Bartokian” rhythms. Like a film score, Nino Rota's Trio (1973 ) features the lush harmonies and instrumental blends of the instruments depicting different characters and moods. Henryk Górecki's Recitativa i Ariosa “Lerchenmusik,” Op. 53 highlights the uniqueness of the clarinet, cello, and piano and complements and contrasts the sound options of this combination through his organic Polish-folk inspired minimalist style. Stephen Dankner's Trio (1991) takes the clarinet trios from Brahms to the neo-Romantic present providing beautiful lyrical passages for the clarinet while incorporating the influences and essence of American jazz. Daniel Lochrie's Phantasms (1994, rev. 2002) features a variety of rhythmic and lyrical passages combined with the tasteful use of contemporary clarinet techniques within a traditional framework.

[...] this is the city that moved the world, giving birth to the assembly-line method of car manufacturing and to the music that reverberated around the globe from Motown. After a 50 per cent drop in prices over the past five years, you can buy a house in Detroit - within city limits, well away from the smarter suburbs - for less than you might spend on a new car.

There is also some hesitation among the public about using wood. \"Many peopleassociate timber buildings with those badly built timber-framed houses of the 1960s and 1970s,\" suspects [Stephen Coleman]. \"They had such terrible press and very poor...

Reviews the increasing popularity of structural timber, not just as cladding or timber frame but for whole buildings; examples are Murray Grove in Hackney, London, which is the world's tallest solid wood residential structure, and four houses in Highbury. Wood is renewable, is much lighter than its competitors and therefore more transportable, and chars before it burns; so that engineered wood products which have long been used in much of western Europe are now being adopted in the USA and UK. Products range from soft woods treated in new non-toxic processes to allow their use for decking and cladding, to giant \"jumbo-ply\" which can replace steel or concrete as the building structure; they use laminated panels of pressed wood which compare in longevity to steel or concrete.

Ever since he launched his book The Architecture of Happiness de Botton claims that he has struggled with \"our low expectations of architecture\", the fact that people in the UK have grown used to living with poor quality construction, believing that...