Part of the pleasure of the design of Mailbox (and why it works so well) is that this not just a facade on top of the underlying Gmail service, but an aggressive reshaping of it.

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Mr. Carpenter's architectural design work includes the facade of the new 7 World Trade Center tower in New York and the renovation of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, completed in 2010.

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Another Hawksmoor design, for Christ Church, Spitalfields, may be said to rank higher for the bestial power of its facade and macabre associations. (It was built over a burial pit for plague victims.) But the drama of exterior and interior spaces at St.

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