Vital Signs

It was standing room only at the Statehouse last Thursday morning in the small, third-floor conference room of the House Committee on Health and Welfare. Etched on a chalkboard at the back of the room was a single bill number: H.128. Committee Chairman Thomas Koch (R-Barre Town) has devoted the entire month of February to…

Building Blocks

Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron do big boxes. The Swiss design duo won the 2001 Pritzker Prize, making them the architectural equivalent of Nobel laureates. American Pritzker winners include Frank Gehry, whose signature buildings twist and shout, and I.M. Pei, famous for the boldly angular East Wing of the National Gallery in Washington. Herzog…


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