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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
The new Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library that was fit into what was left of a 1915 department store that had been converted into a circulating library in the mid-20th Century not only saved its use but the redesign continues to win plaudits.
The latest was from Michael J. Lewis in the Wall Street Journal who praised the work of architects Francine Houben of Mecanoo and Elizabeth Leber of Beyer Blinder Belle, for revitalizing the old structure, calling the new work “uncommonly sensitive to the sensory experience of its users.”
He said they “managed to create stairwells that are actually pleasant spaces, where cheerful vertical light fixtures enliven what would otherwise be dark corners.
“Responsible library architects think acoustically, and separate noisy spaces from the quiet ones for reading, but Ms. Houben and Ms. Leber have gone a step further to think tactilely, and at the children’s level they modified their travertine walls to use a nonporous variant of the stone … a friendly accommodation to dirty little hands.”
Everything was pleasing and he noted, “it is even a pleasure to sit down” on Thomas Moser white oak seats.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — An international team of doctors visiting a hospital in central Gaza was prepared for the worst.
NICOSIA - A meeting between the ministers of energy for Cyprus and Israel - George Papanastasiou and Eli Cohen - led to an agreement that the countries would make an underwater electric cable link a top priority, linking them to Europe.
LONDON (AP) — The British Museum on Thursday appointed National Portrait Gallery chief Nicholas Cullinan as its new director, as the 265-year-old institution grapples with the apparent theft of hundreds of artifacts and growing international scrutiny of its collection.
ATHENS - The European Union needs to get involved in the case of the two-year jail sentence given ethnic Greek Fredi Beleri who was elected Mayor of the seaside town of Himare and said the trial was a farce to get him and protect Prime Minister Edi Rama’s business friends.
Brace yourself for what could be another scorching summer in Greece as scientists are anxious that a warm winter - the warmest January recorded - and climate change will continue to bring weather anomalies.