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When Friendship Means a $10,000 Check

Maia Bittner is an angel investor, and she has a lot of friends who’ve founded startups. Sometimes they ask her if she wants to put money into their companies. Bittner used to feel prickly about it—she didn’t want them to assume she’d write a check just because they’re friends. At some point, however, she realized that being buddies with someone was a great reason to write them a check. “The fact that they are my friend means there’s something cool and interesting about this person,” says Bittner, who’s founded two companies of her own: Rocksbox, a jewelry rental service, and Pinch, a fintech startup. For someone she considers a good friend, she’ll sometimes invest blindly, without knowing what the company does, because she trusts their judgment. “Investing in my friends is…

When Friendship Means a $10,000 Check

THE SERIOUS SIDE OF ROSÉ

With its rapid rise in popularity over the past decade, rosé occupies the contradictory position of being embraced as the luxury pour of summer, while not being taken seriously as a wine. The deluge of lackluster bottles turned out to meet consumers’ feverish demand has not helped its reputation. “Rosé has become like Beaujolais Nouveau years ago—producers rush it to market quickly and everyone focuses on simple aromatics instead of substance,” says winemaker Daniel Ravier of Domaine Tempier in Provence’s elite Bandol appellation. “Many people still think rosé is not a real wine.” Yet across rosé’s spiritual homeland of Provence, ambitious vintners such as Ravier craft wines that challenge this perception. They are making complex, distinctive versions that channel their terroirs and make the case for rosé as something more than poolside…

THE SERIOUS SIDE OF ROSÉ
LAUGHING Matters

LAUGHING Matters

Making people laugh connects us to one another. But what humour endures? For me, it’s personal life stories and experiences. Life, twisted and moulded until you find the funny, will always evolve, and therefore endure. I’ve found that the closer it cuts to the bone, the funnier it is. The beauty of life is that everyone is similar in some way. While we may not have the same experiences, everyone can relate to observations on life, family and the varieties of behaviour we all encounter every day as we go about our lives. Humour is very helpful in everyday life. For example, it can end tense situations. In my life, humour has ended arguments at home and at work too many times to mention. Finding humour can break tension immediately. My…

WIVES AND GODDESSES WOMEN IN ANCIENT GREECE

For many centuries, beliefs about the roles of girls and women in ancient Greece centered around how limited and hidden their lives were. Women were kept out of the public sphere, denied citizenship, and held no legal or political standing. Excluded from the polis, women were relegated to the oikos, or household, as wives, mothers, and daughters. Much of this notion originated in written sources from classical Greece. Xenophon, Plato, and Thucydides all testified to the so-called inferiority of women to men. Writing in the fourth century B.C., Aristotle stated, in his Politics, that “again, as between the sexes, the male is by nature superior and the female inferior, the male ruler and the female subject.” Many of these texts originated in Athens, which had the most restrictive attitudes toward women.…

WIVES AND GODDESSES WOMEN IN ANCIENT GREECE
‘YOU HAVEN’T SEEN ANYTHING YET.’

‘YOU HAVEN’T SEEN ANYTHING YET.’

THE EVENTS OF RECENT MONTHS HAVE QUASHED any remaining notion that Donald Trump might abandon his quest for political power after being turned out of office by voters two years ago. He is still holding his trademark rallies, sometimes complete with QAnon call-outs, in principle to support Republican candidates but in practice holding on to center stage to hawk his own accomplishments and grievances. The former president has had plenty of help in staying in the public eye. The House’s January 6 Committee recently voted to subpoena him to testify. The FBI raided Mar-a-Lago, his home in Palm Beach, Florida, in search of classified documents he kept after leaving office. And multiple other legal woes have ensured that some news of each day features Trump. A Trump bid for the White House…

GINZA PLACE

設計/大成建設 山本実、芦谷公滋(建築) 藤永直樹(構造) 高木建、堀雄二(設備) 外観デザイン/クライン・ダイサム・アーキテクツ 協力/外装ライトアップ シリウスライティングオフィス サイン計画 井原理安デザイン事務所 CM・監理/久米設計 施工/大成建設 撮影/ナカサ&パートナーズ 左/銀座四丁目の交差点から銀座プレイスを見る。3階と7階にテラスを設け、商業施 設であることを街に伝えると同時に、店内からも銀座の街を感じられるようデザインした 右/約5300枚のアルミパネルは、一枚ずつ手作業で曲げ加工と溶接を施した。全体は、 プロポーションの異なる菱形の組み合わせ。菱形の中央が5㎝ 突き出た形状のため、それ ぞれの菱形に陰影が生まれている。この建物の施工にあたって、パネルをファサードに設 置するための下地システムを開発し、大成建設がその技術で特許を取得している 人に近い建築のデザイン 東京・銀座4丁目交差点は、東京そして日本を 代表するシンボリックな場所。私達が大切にし たのは、建物を目にした時に、そこに行ってみ たい、そこに居たいといった気持ちが湧き上がる、…

GINZA PLACE
Shocking Secret of the Gown

Shocking Secret of the Gown

My aunties all said my mother was a very beautiful debutante; shy, demure and dressed in the most exquisite lace gown. As the partner chosen by her parents to escort her to the 1938 Debutante Ball at St Margaret’s College, my father fell in love with her that night and eventually they married, and the rest is the unfolding history of our family. But my story is about my mother’s beautiful ball gown. She had carefully wrapped it in tissue paper and placed it in a cardboard box – carried from house to house in Christchurch, as over the years my parents had upgraded their dwellings – and it was hidden away in a top cupboard. From time to time it would be lifted out of its box and shown to us, and…

讀懂〉 習帝國

10月22日,為期一周的中共第20屆全國代表大會正式閉幕,會後,一幅由習近平治理下的「新中華帝國」圖景,也在全球媒體與資本市場的一片驚詫聲中,緩緩鋪展開來。 究竟,20大報告中的「中國式現代化」的內涵是什麼?究竟,台海戰爭的火線是否可能引燃?究竟,大權在握的「習家軍」,又將把中國經濟帶往何方? 「不少周邊朋友的想法大多是, 該『潤』了吧!那些沒法跑的人呢,靜默一陣後往往也只說出這麼一句話:別想那麼多,『躺平』就好。」電話另一端,人在中國的曉華(化名),無奈地嘆了口氣。 「潤」,是今年上海防疫封城下所衍生的網路新語,意義就是移民。「躺平」,是去年開始流行的網路語,描述中國年輕人對現實環境的無力。至於曉華,是位出生在中國某中部大省的青年,她的無奈,緣自中國共產黨第二十次全國代表大會的一份報告。 全國代表大會,是中共最高領導機關,掌握最高決策權和監督權,負責確定下一屆黨的最高領導層陣容、接班制度,以及未來數年中國的大政方針。自一九八二年起,中共全國代表大會每五年召開一次,今年是自一九二一年起第二十次舉辦,故坊間俗稱「二十大」。 中國本質上沒有歷史 只有朝代輪迴…

讀懂〉 習帝國
How to be both ambitious and fulfilled

How to be both ambitious and fulfilled

Ambition can feel like a dirty word in the era of quiet quitting and the Great Resignation. Many Americans have realized that an always-striving mindset can come at a cost to mental wellness; in an October report, the U.S. Surgeon General even named workplace mental health a new public-health priority in the wake of the pandemic. Research has also linked chasing extrinsic goals, like power, to anxiety and depression. But is abandoning your ambition outright the secret to inner peace? Not necessarily. Instead, research suggests, the key is harnessing your ambition for a goal that serves your well-being. “We want to make sure that our ambition is being directed in ways that we care about,” says clinical psychologist Richard Ryan, a leading motivation researcher. Striving is healthy only if “we do it…

SoftBank Has a Talent Problem

SoftBank Has a Talent Problem

Ever since billionaire investor Masayoshi Son set up the giant Vision Fund in 2017 to provide backing for technology startups, he’s struggled with how to compensate his partners. He still hasn’t figured out how to keep them happy. Son’s company, SoftBank Group Corp., is preparing to make the first distribution of profits to employees at the Vision Fund in December, according to people familiar with the matter. But the company’s eccentric approach to compensation is contributing to a stream of defections, say these people, who asked not to be identified because the matter is private. Seven managing partners have left since March of last year, and the only senior managing partner, Deep Nishar, will depart by yearend. He didn’t respond to a request for comment. At the heart of the matter is…

HAPPY PLACE

The process of updating a heritage home can require its owners to think on their feet. When there’s a nasty burst pipe in the only bathroom, the renovation of that room takes on an extreme urgency, particularly when you add a lockdown into the equation. “The Covid situation was getting serious,” says Katie Sargent, interior designer and owner of this 1900s home in Melbourne. “We had to get the bathroom done immediately, before tradies became impossible to pin down. We didn’t move out, so for a while there we’d have to jump in the car and drive to the local park when we needed the bathroom!” But, later, when the kitchen was being overhauled and the baltic pine floors sanded and whitewashed, staying put wasn’t an option: “We packed up the…

HAPPY PLACE
Apple is at the top of its MacBook game–and the best may be yet to come

Apple is at the top of its MacBook game–and the best may be yet to come

We live in a wonderful era for Apple laptops. The 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros provide desktop power and stunning HDR displays. The new M2 MacBook Air has now joined the family, with a similar striking design and the Air’s trademark smaller size and weight. After a dark period where Apple struggled with flawed laptop keyboards, a painful transition to USB-C, and an increasingly frustrating relationship with Intel, things haven’t looked this bright in quite some time. That’s why, as Apple looks on proudly at the new line of laptops it has fashioned over the past couple of years, I have only one request: More, please. LAPTOPS ARE THE BEST Let’s start with the facts. For decades, the overall percentage of new Macs sold that are laptops kept going up. The last time…

Decidim.Barcelona: Participatory Budget

Decidim.Barcelona: Participatory Budget

Ajuntament de Barcelona Barcelona, Spain 2020–2021 In a pioneering democratic exercise, the people of Barcelona have a direct say in how 75 million euros is to be invested in their neighborhood or district. The participatory budget accounts for 5% of municipal investment earmarked for the current period through 2023, and is conducted using the Decidim.Barcelona platform. The participatory budget is a step toward a model of direct democracy that involves citizens in decision-making processes, enabling them to make proposals, debate them, prioritize them, and make a choice. Investment resulting from proposals by local people must satisfy a number of requisites. The main areas of work are: · Renovation, reform, extension, improvement, and technological equipping of public facilities such as community centers, schools, and sports facilities· Construction of small facilities· Urban renewal and improvement of public…

Putin’s War Is Europe’s 9/11

Putin’s War Is Europe’s 9/11

On the morning of Feb. 24, as Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, German army chief Alfons Mais got up and wrote on LinkedIn that he had “never ever expected to experience war again” in Europe. After years of budget cuts, he observed, the Bundeswehr, Germany’s military, “stands naked. The options we can offer our government to support the [NATO] alliance are extremely limited.” Only three days later, on Feb. 27, after Putin had put his nuclear deterrent forces on alert, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz committed an extra 100 billion euros (around $112 billion) to his country’s 2022 defense budget. In another major turnaround, he also authorized third countries such as the Netherlands to ship German-made defensive weapons to Ukraine, and he supported a call for the…

Where Russian Tourists Are Missing

Nha Trang, a beach-blessed resort town on Vietnam’s east coast, is often dubbed by travel blogs as “Little Russia”—a tribute to high-spending Russians who used to splurge on vodka and borscht while staying in premium properties overlooking the warm sea. A few weeks ago, staff at the picturesque MerPerle Hon Tam Resort were in full swing, preparing to welcome more Russians in March after receiving virtually no foreign travelers for the past two years because of pandemic restrictions. “Then the war came,” says Tran Bao Doan, the resort’s general manager. It was a huge blow. MerPerle Hon Tam, which also offers mud bathing and parasailing, had spent almost 1 billion dong ($44,000) upgrading facilities, buying more mud, planting trees, and expanding its restaurant menu. But as the war in Ukraine disrupted flights…

Where Russian Tourists Are Missing

小規模店舗の ト イレデザインについて考える

昨年4月、東京・自由が丘にオープンした「also Soup Stock Tok yo(オルソ スープストックトーキョー)」。スープだけでなく、 お酒やコース料理も楽しめる「Soup Stock Tokyo」の新業態 である。外壁の2面をガラス張りとした開放的な店内の1階 には、唯一クローズドな空間となるトイレを設置している。 同店を手掛けたクリエイティブディレクターの野崎亙さん( ス マイルズ)と設計者の永山祐子さん(永山祐子建築設計)に、 空間全体とトイレの関係性や、小規模店舗におけるトイレ の在り方、トイレが持つ今後の可能性について聞いた。 街が持つ特徴を 店内に受け入れる 編集部 トイレについての話をお伺いする前 に、まず「also Soup Stock Tokyo」ができるま でのストーリーをお聞かせください 野崎 東急・自由が丘駅の構内にある「Soup Stock Tokyo」を通して、街との親和性を感 じており、路面店をオープンした際にもお客 様に来ていただけるという自負はありました。 ただ、出店にあたって、紋切り型の店をつくる…

小規模店舗の ト イレデザインについて考える
FUORI SALONE 市内会場

FUORI SALONE 市内会場

INSTALLATIONS 空間全体のインスタレーションによ り、ブランドや製品の魅力を伝える 見せ方は広く定着している。来場 者を驚かせるだけでなく、いかに的 確にコンセプトを伝えるかがポイン トだろう。 NIKE 今年のミラノ・デザイン・ウィークで、現地で最も話題になったのはナイキの「The Nature Of Motion」展に違いない。会場でまず展開されるのは、8組の気鋭のデザイナーがナイ キの技術や素材を応用してデザインした家具。下の写真はオランダ人デザイナーBertjan Pot の作品。このスペースは白い靴箱を積み重ねて順路をつくっている。更に奥でインハ ウスデザイナーによる実験的なスニーカーが展示された。いずれも足早に進化するスニー カーのデザインの可能性を誇示し、ブランドの先進性を伝えるものだ。 COS 建築家やデザイナーを起用したインスタレーショ ンが例年、評判になっているファッションブラン ドのコス。今年は建築家の藤本壮介による「Forest of Light」を開催した。霧を満たした空間に天井 から照明を当てるというシンプルな手法により、木々…

広告企画 ファサード&サイン

広告企画 ファサード&サイン

商業施設においてファサード&サインは、 顧客を誘導する装置として重要な役割を担っています。 そのデザインや計画には、店の佇まいをひと目で認知させるとともに、 期待感を高めるための創意工夫が要求されます。 特集では、店舗の外装を彩るファサードデザイン、 サインデザインのための素材や設備を紹介します。 ※価格は税別金額です。 バージョンアップされた 屋外用フルカラーLEDライト ColorBlast Powercore gen4 RGB 屋外でのフルカラー演出を実現するLEDライト「ColorBlast Powercore gen4 RGB(カラーブラスト パワーコア ジェネ レーション4 アールジービー)」がバージョンアップされた。 従来品に比べて明るさ(光束値)が約1 .2倍に向上したほ か、5種類の拡散レンズやガラス面の破損を防止するロッ クガードなどのオプション(別売品)が充実。さらに、表現 可能な琥珀色(アンバー)の範囲も拡張している。本体の長 辺が約340 ㎜なので、狭い場所にも取り付け可能。消費電 力50W、本体色は3種類(白、黒、シルバー)、防雨型(IP66)。…

独立した先に 広がる世界

学生時代に抱いた “ 独立” への思い 藤井 建築を学んでいた学生の頃から、いず れは独り立ちすることを漠然と意識していま した。そして就職をしてみたら、自分が考え たものが実際にできあがっていくことが嬉し くて、デザインがどんどん楽しくなっていった。 そこから自分の事務所を持ちたいという野心 が膨らんでいき、独立への道筋を意識するよ うになったのですが、皆さんの学生時代はど んな感じでしたか? 座間 独立については、大学の後半から目標 として決めていました。入学したての頃は、 絵を描くことが好きで美大へという感じだっ たので、そこまで職業としてはイメージでき ていなかったけれど、周りの友人は1人で仕 事をやっていくつもりという人が多かった。 空間だけじゃなくて、ファッションとか照明 とか、みんなそれぞれキャラクターがありま した。私もそんな周りに感化されつつ自然に 今の職業を意識するようになりました。 藤井 独立を目指している人は、そういう雰 囲気を出していましたよね。将来的なビジョ ンの話をすると、端々に独立に向けての話が 盛り込まれていたり。 原田…

独立した先に 広がる世界
MATHEMATICIANS CRACK THE ZODIAC KILLER’S CIPHER

MATHEMATICIANS CRACK THE ZODIAC KILLER’S CIPHER

IN THE LATE 1960s, a serial killer self-identifying as “the Zodiac” killed at least five people in Northern California and claimed to have murdered more. In November 1969, the Zodiac killer sent a card to the San Francisco Chronicle containing a 340-character secret message that for more than 50 years went unsolved by numerous detectives, cryptography experts, amateur sleuths and curious others. Wonder no more, true-crime aficionados. After months of crunching code during the pandemic, three researchers on three different continents announced that they’d finally decoded the message. Further bolstering the claim, experts at the FBI verified the solution (and even tweeted about it). The encrypted message didn’t reveal the identity of the Zodiac killer, but it did bring decades of speculation, conspiracy theories and guesswork about this cipher to a dramatic…

SONYS BÄSTA HITTILLS

Mycket stabil anslutning, utmärkt samtalsljud och sagolik brusreducering. Behagligt och fylligt ljud med musik. Öppnar sig i toppen med bra ljudkodekar. Lite väl dämpade i toppen med SBCkodeken. Se till att du prioriterar ljudkvalitet framför stabilitet i appen. 5-band grafisk EQ i appen är i minsta laget. När Sony 2019 lanserade sina bästa trådlösa öronproppar hittills, WF-1000XM3, blev vi imponerade av hur seriöst de hade gjort jobbet. Utsökt brusreducering, storslagen bas och en – efter den tidens standard – mycket stabil anslutning. Nu har det gått två år och en efter en har konkurrenterna kommit ikapp Sony. Först och främst hade Sony-propparna ingen form av vattentät certifiering, Bluetooth-anslutningen kunde orsaka pyttesmå dropouts som hördes som milt knastrande och dessutom var de också ganska stora och klumpiga. Nu är efterträdaren här – med det förutsägbara…

SONYS BÄSTA HITTILLS
FOR SALE RUSSIAN OIL $25B / OBO

FOR SALE RUSSIAN OIL $25B / OBO

On Feb. 8, after delivering the highest quarterly profit in a decade, BP Plc Chief Executive Officer Bernard Looney offered a strong defense of the company’s deep ties with Russia’s largest oil producer. Russian tanks had not yet crossed into Ukraine, but with 130,000 troops at the country’s borders, tensions were quickly rising, and BP’s 20% stake in Kremlin-backed Rosneft PJSC meant the London-based oil giant had a lot at stake. Wearing a V-neck sweater, plain white shirt, and no tie, Looney in a television interview offered a simple rationale for continuing operations in Russia: “Our job is to focus on the business of business. We avoid the politics.” A little more than two weeks later, the politics became unavoidable. And as the reality of Russia’s unprovoked invasion in the early hours…

“Nuestros proyectos tienen una visión holística” PEDRO FERRUZ, MONTSERRAT CÓRDOVA Y JORDI BERTRÁN 118 STUDIO

Los espacios han de contar cosas, crear sensaciones y producir experiencias. ¿Cómo se consigue esto? Trabajamos con una metodología eminentemente conceptual, basada en un exhaustivo proceso de investigación para cada cliente, que nos ayuda a traducir los conceptos gastronómicos o de marca en diseños específicos y únicos para cada proyecto. Podríamos decir que hemos adaptado el método Stanislavski que utilizan los actores para meterse dentro de sus personajes al mundo de la arquitectura y el diseño de interiores. ¿Cómo se plantea un proyecto a medida? Nuestro equipo es multidisciplinar y muy diverso, como nuestras propuestas. Arquitectos, diseñadores, creativos y técnicos trabajamos todos en una gran mesa de mármol donde los proyectos se desarrollan y comparten de manera integral, desde las primeras ideas hasta su ejecución final. Explicadnos brevemente la trayectoria de 118 Studio. 118 Studio…

“Nuestros proyectos tienen una visión holística” PEDRO FERRUZ, MONTSERRAT CÓRDOVA Y JORDI BERTRÁN 118 STUDIO

He’s Making Apple the Bad Guy

Horacio Gutierrez made his name in U.S. corporate law two decades ago defending Microsoft Corp. against charges of anticompetitive behavior in the first major antitrust case of the internet age. As the tech industry is once again dominated by talk of monopolies, Gutierrez, now Spotify Technology SA’s chief legal officer, has switched sides. For the past five years he’s led Spotify’s campaign against Apple Inc., one of a series of antitrust actions with the potential to make an even greater impact than the Microsoft litigation. While the shift in public opinion about the tech industry in recent years has been stunning by any measure, the change in the perception of Apple may be the most improbable. When Gutierrez started accusing the company of anticompetitive behavior in 2016, many public officials had…

He’s Making Apple the Bad Guy

Light in Winter

Shari Blaukopf loves to paint winter landscapes, and it’s a good thing given that she lives in Montreal and gets plenty of opportunities. “I love what snow does to any scene, especially a cityscape,” Blaukopf says. “I think snow generates a lot of atmosphere. It sounds cliché, but anything with snow on it looks nicer. Take a fire hydrant; a fire hydrant covered in snow is really beautiful.” Because she’s always looking for scenes with a lot of contrast between lights and darks, a snow scene, by its very nature, suddenly makes everything more compelling. “The white shapes break up everything into more interesting compositions,” she says. “And when the sun comes out, and there are shadows on the snow, that becomes even more pronounced.” Blaukopf studied art seriously as a teenager…

Light in Winter

GHOSTS IN THE MACHINE

If a heart attack isn’t documented, did it really happen? For an artificial intelligence program, the answer may very well be “no.” Every year, an estimated 170,000 people in the United States experience asymptomatic — or “silent” — heart attacks. During these events, patients likely have no idea that a blockage is keeping blood from flowing or that vital tissue is dying. They won’t experience any chest pain, dizziness or trouble breathing. They don’t turn beet red or collapse. Instead, they may just feel a bit tired, or have no symptoms at all. While the patient might not realize what happened, the underlying damage can be severe and long-lasting: People who suffer silent heart attacks are at higher risk for coronary heart disease and stroke, and are more likely to…

GHOSTS IN THE MACHINE

Opening the Spigot

The right-wing crusade to punish social media companies for supposedly discriminating against their conservative users is reaching a major inflection point, with the US Supreme Court weighing whether to temporarily block a Texas law regulating how the companies can moderate the content on their services. If it ultimately stands up, the law would represent a fundamental shift in how the US legal system interprets the First Amendment. It would also rewrite the rules of the modern internet. The legal battle emerges from the intensifying dispute over the role of tech in American political and cultural life. Last year lawmakers in Texas and Florida passed similar bills attempting to limit the ability of web services to ban users or remove content they say violates their standards, saying companies apply their rules unfairly. Historically,…

Opening the Spigot
THE QUIZ

THE QUIZ

1. Brodie Retallick’s uncle was an All Black forward in the late 70’s, early 80’s? What was his name? 2. Aaron and Nathan Mauger’s uncle was a world champion in another sport? What sport was it? 3 Three sets of brother and sister combos have played international rugby union for their countries, Matt and Kristy Giteau for Australia, Sonny Bill and Niall Williams for NZ, and one other duo? 4. Only one husband and wife have represented their country at international rugby. Who are they? 5. Too Vaega and his son have both played for Manu Samoa. His son’s christian name is a UK city? 6. The Burger and van der Merwe father and son duo’s both represented South Africa at rugby. What are their Christian names? 7. Felix du Plessis and his son are the…

PLANET B

PLANET B

Space Age 2.0 is an era of exponential technological progress, driven by desire for discovery, domination and the continued survival of humanity in light of the environmental crises taking place on Earth. Just as Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey aestheticized mysteries of the cosmos during the initial space race in the 1960s, the futuristic affordances of Asian space exploration are now informing new visions of emergent commercial worldbuilding. The liminal nature of interstellar existence is encoded into work, hospitality and retail spaces that behave more like spacecraft than physical destinations. Unassuming concrete exteriors conceal remarkable thresholds, transporting visitors from reality to unreality via steel-clad, fluorescent-lit tunnels and celestial glossy white staircases. Secure from external hostilities, intrepid explorers are admitted into open and transparent internal vistas. Infinity mirrors, parametric formations and…

LIFE WITH MARS

LIFE WITH MARS

I have an unprofessional bias towards James Marsden. For starters, the man’s tip-top reputation in Tinseltown is enough for anyone to think highly of him. “He’s literally the nicest guy in showbusiness,” says one of Hollywood’s major publicists. “I would love him as a client simply to be around his good energy.” My personal affection for him stems from an issue many mothers and fathers will relate to. For years we parents toil to hold our children’s attention for more than 10 minutes; it’s knackering. The prospect of a child sitting through a film (yes, screens, but I mix it with Joyce and Dostoevsky, so don’t judge) seems unattainable. At least, I thought it was until early in lockdown, when things seemed bleak, queues massed outside supermarkets, and our own…

L’énigme Kamala Harris

Le jour où Joe Biden et Kamala Harris ont gagné, Leslie, blanche, 46 ans, a tapé sur des casseroles avec ses voisins. « Kamala Harris ouvre la voie pour les femmes et les fillettes qui la voient au pouvoir », ditelle en surveillant la sienne, qui attend son cours de skateboard. « Ici, on est très progressiste, on s’installe parce que ce genre de politique est appliqué. » Ici, c’est Berkeley. Et à l’école Thousand Oaks (« Mille Chênes »), ouverte au public le week-end, les enfants sautent de leur skate sous les yeux du prof et… de Kamala Harris, entre Malala Yousafzai et Serena Williams. La fresque honore l’ancienne élève. Mais tout près, à Oakland, où elle est née en 1964, une poignée de manifestants fête le 1er Mai.…

L’énigme Kamala Harris

Architects from Japan Women’s University

The Department of Dwelling Studies, Faculty of Home Economics, at Japan Women’s University opened in 1948 under the new postwar educational system, and as of March 2020 had produced 5,023 graduates over 69 academic years. A report on graduates published in 1994 shows that a notably high percentage of them went on to have careers in architecture as well as a range of other professions. In this context, this issue of a+u compiles and reorganizes works by graduates of the program previously published in architectural magazines, including Shinkenchiku, presenting a portrait of these architects, whose works are characterized by their originality and humanity. Momoyo Kaijima 1950s Graduates Masako Hayashi enrolled at Japan Women’s University in its first year after reorganization under the postwar educational system. After graduation, she was a design assistant to…

Architects from Japan Women’s University
The top GREATEST JDM GEMS

The top GREATEST JDM GEMS

01 GREATEST JDM GEMS HONDA CL1 ACCORD EURO-R PRODUCED: 1997-2002 ENGINE: 2157cc, I4, N/A OUTPUT: 164kW/221Nm In the late ’90s Honda built the equivalent of a Civic Type R, but hid it in a sleek fourdoor Accord package. Fitted with the ‘red top’ version of the H22A engine which revved to 8000rpm, the Euro-R put its power to the ground via a five-speed manual transmission and helical Torsen limited-slip diff. Other standard equipment included Recaro seats, MOMO steering wheel, sports exhaust with 4-2-1 stainless headers, aluminium gear shift and sports suspension. We nearly chose the DC2 ITR sedan, but opted for the CL1 due to its lesser known status. 02 GREATEST JDM GEMS AUTECH NISSAN SKYLINE GT-R R33 SEDAN PRODUCED: 1998 ENGINE: 2568cc, I6, TT At the top of the JDM sleeper tree is the Autech GT-R sedan. Revealed at…

Ask Martha

How do I grow beautiful hydrangeas year after year? —Michelle Cannon, Red Hook, N.Y. Adored for their fluffy pom-pom flowers, these plants are nature’s cheerleaders, typically thriving throughout Zones 4 to 9. But the various types require unique care for lasting impact. To ensure that yours explode with beauty every summer, heed the advice of Ryan McEnaney, communications manager at Bailey’s Nursery, in St. Paul, Minnesota, and a spokesperson for ‘Endless Summer’ hydrangeas, on snipping, soaking, and feeding them. 1. Know Your Variety Most hydrangeas fall into one of three categories: panicle (cone-shaped, like those shown), smooth (large and snowball-like), or bigleaf (bigger leaves—you guessed it—in tighter globes or more open, lacy petals). The first two bloom on new growth; the last erupts on both new and old (i.e., the prior year’s branches). 2. Prune…

Ask Martha
PRIMING, masking, painting

PRIMING, masking, painting

Our “Builder Basics” ship series uses Trumpeter’s 1/350 scale USS Independence littoral combat ship to demonstrate all the techniques you’ll need to complete a ship model. Earlier, in Part 1 you learned to assemble the tri-maran hull and other major components. Part 2 focused on adding details, both plastic and photo-etched metal. In this segment we’re off to the paint shop where we’ll have fun airbrushing various grays and using a lot of masking tape.…

Losing Paradise

Losing Paradise

In hindsight, Chris Andrus says, the Nobu opening was a bad sign. It was 2012. Andrus, a bald, goateed, self-proclaimed hippie, was living on Lanai, a Hawaiian island of about 3,000 people, helping an old friend start a woodworking company. Paradise was treating him well: The business was growing rapidly, and Andrus was in love with Lanai’s tightknit community. Then Larry Ellison, the eccentric co-founder of Oracle Corp. and the 11th-richest person in the world, bought it—the island, that is. The $300 million purchase came with 98% of Lanai’s 90,000 acres, plus the two Four Seasons resorts that provide most of its jobs, a significant chunk of its homes, and practically all its commercial properties. Overnight, Ellison became almost everyone’s boss, landlord, or both. One of the first things Ellison did…

LETTERS

What a Surprise I normally read my Reader’s Digest from beginning to end but wasn’t looking forward to ‘Indonesia’s Snake Bite Doctor’ (March) as I don’t like snakes! To my surprise, I found the Bonus Read most interesting with some fantastic previously unknown facts. Dr Tri Maharani – known as Maha – must have saved hundreds of lives by passing on her toxicology knowledge to other doctors. A wonderful lady. SHIRLEY APLIN Roany’s Good Nature Pam Houston’s story ‘He Trots the Air’ (February) brought tears to my eyes. It so beautifully and eloquently reflected her love, respect and compassion for her horse, Roany, and his intelligence and loyalty to Pam. I felt like I was experiencing Roany’s life and dignified ending first-hand. COLLEEN J. ATKINSON Sustainable Vehicles The race to reduce landfill is being won by Dutch researchers who have…

LETTERS
First Drive: 2023 Toyota GR Corolla

First Drive: 2023 Toyota GR Corolla

Hey, Toyota—is everything, um, OK? Strapped into the new Toyota GR Corolla and sitting in pit lane awaiting our turn at a 2.1-mile section of Utah Motorsports Park’s wildly undulating road course, we felt slightly silly. Until now, we imagined, the only people who’d ever worn helmets inside a dealership-ready Corolla were unbalanced folks with visions of, well, something as absurd as a track-ready production Toyota Corolla. One such person is Toyota President Akio Toyoda. He’s been pushing the company’s Gazoo Racing (GR) subbrand, and he personally signed off on the final product. The result is the craziest showroom-spec Corolla hatchback ever built. Just how out of bounds is it? We can count on one hand the sporty Corollas sold here over the decades. It was long ago typecast as an anodyne, safe…

The Future of Work Is … Lunch

Remember lunch? It was the meal that wasn’t supposed to matter anymore. Long in decline as the plastic clamshell salad colonized spare desk real estate, the weekday lunch break was an immediate casualty of the shift to remote work at the start of the pandemic. Across office parks and downtowns the world over, the great feedlots of salaried workers sat empty: boozy clubhouses; takeout holes-in-the-wall specializing in pre-grilled panini; food trucks slinging cumin-scented chicken thighs drizzled with white sauce and atop a generous bed of rice. During the past half-century, the workday lunch has been cast as a wasteful indulgence, the enemy of productivity, especially in America. It ate away at company time, interrupted the flow of work, taxed the wallets of employees and heaped on unnecessary calories, leading to weight gain…

The Future of Work Is … Lunch

騙愛產業鏈

K先生買了草莓蛋糕,讓我們邊吃邊聽他聊最近遇到的這起複雜愛情故事。他顯得有些興奮和緊張,蛋糕直接從盤子上掉出來,讓他有些惱火。「看吧,我就說我這個人笨手笨腳的,需要有個老婆。」 K先生今年7 9歲,已經退休,獨自一人居住在德國的萊茵區(Rhineland)。他的本名沒有人會感興趣,但他的故事卻不然─那是一個不容易理解、甚至連K先生本人都弄不懂的故事。他承認:「事情非常複雜。」 K先生的妻子在2013年3月1日因乳癌離世後,原本的房子對他來說太大了。他和妻子結縭37載,她鉤的毛毯至今還散落在沙發上,用過的餐具和二人的婚床也都還在。他抽著菸、吃著蛋糕,電視機的聲響取代了妻子的說話聲。 K先生是在1976年從《萊茵郵報》上的徵友廣告上認識妻子的。她是捷克人,年紀小他很多。他向她解釋西方世界和整個世界,二人一道開車從紐約到舊金山,旅行橫越加拿大,睡在帳篷裡;回國後,二人就一塊搬進萊茵區的這間房子。他們育有一子,後來變得越來越少出門,一起齊心過日子。 等到妻子過世時,他已不再參加任何運動社團、和前同事斷了聯繫,兒子也已長大成人。K先生覺得孤寂難耐,感受不到愛,內心徒留一片空虛。…

騙愛產業鏈

Nothing to Lose

There’s a small word that protesters in Iran are using on social media to show their anger goes far beyond the tragic death of Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old woman who died in September after being in the custody of the country’s morality police. Baraye is the Persian equivalent of the English word “for.” It’s a simple preposition that people are using to highlight the scale and scope of their grievances against the Islamic Republic as the country is shaken by some of the biggest demonstrations it’s seen since the 1979 revolution. “For the victims of flight ps752,” reads one posting on Twitter, referring to the Ukrainian passenger plane shot down by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in January 2020, killing 176 people. “For the Blue Girl,” reads another, a reference to Sahar…

Nothing to Lose
Why the Apple silicon Mac Pro will be more than just a faster chip

Why the Apple silicon Mac Pro will be more than just a faster chip

Apple is in the midst of a two-year rollout of its own Mac processors, with the first Mac System on a Chip (SoC) blowing away expectations. The entire company’s consumer lineup is outfitted with the incredibly fast M1, and with the recent release of the M1 Pro and Max in the MacBook Pro, we got a taste of what Apple can do with its silicon to meet the performance demands that pro users put on high-end Macs. When it comes to pro Macs, however, the model that most readily comes to mind is the Mac Pro, Apple’s high-end workstation. What optimizations does the M1 Max have that will dictate the demise of the old Intel guard? One important battle will come down to the graphics processor, which is traditionally the most…

Muuratsalo Experimental House

Muuratsalo Experimental House

“On the high-contoured island of Muuratsalo in the middle of Lake Päijänne stands our experimental house, which has no name yet. It has been built for the architect’s own pleasure and play. But it has also been built for serious experiments, primarily on problems that cannot be solved within the framework of ordinary building assignments.”1 Aalto’s personal life in the 1950s was shaped by the tragedy of Aino Aalto’s death in 1949 and his marriage to Elissa Mäkiniemi in 1952. The Muuratsalo Experimental House symbolizes the new start for the couple, who found the location for their summerhouse near Säynätsalo on Muuratsalo Island in Lake Päijänne during the construction of Säynätsalo Town Hall (1949–52). Central Finland, with its landscape of hills and lakes, was one of Aalto’s favourite regions. The main…

Why the 13-inch M2 MacBook Pro is still integral to Apple’s lineup

Why the 13-inch M2 MacBook Pro is still integral to Apple’s lineup

At various points during the past several years, Apple has been rated the most valuable corporation in the world. And it’s pretty safe to assume the company didn’t get to that point without being strategic about how it positions its products. One big part of what’s made Apple so successful is that the company makes sure it’s got products at every price point. No, it doesn’t compete in the super-budget department when it comes to devices—Apple is happy to leave those low-margin offerings to the likes of Android phones and Dell PCs—but when it does enter a market, it makes sure it always has a solid spread. Of course, when you’re a company that builds powerful, good-looking devices and values its profit margins, your options are somewhat limited when it comes to…

TikTok Turns On the Money Machine

Alyssa McKay used to work part-time at a frozen yogurt store in Portland, Ore., making minimum wage to help pay her college tuition. Now the 22-year-old earns more than $100,000 a year by pitching brands such as the luxury label Coach and streaming services Netflix and Amazon Prime Video to her 9 million TikTok followers, mostly teenage and preteen girls who wouldn’t dream of visiting Facebook. “TikTok definitely 100% changed my life,” she says. The most downloaded app of 2021, TikTok now has a billion-plus users worldwide consuming short video clips on their phones. That still makes it smaller than Meta Platforms Inc.’s services Facebook and Instagram, but its average user in the US spends about 29 hours a month with it, more than Facebook (16 hours) and Instagram (8 hours)…

TikTok Turns On the Money Machine
7 key Mac preferences that have new hiding spots in Ventura’s System Settings

7 key Mac preferences that have new hiding spots in Ventura’s System Settings

One of the major (and majorly controversial) changes in macOS Ventura is a redesign of System Preferences. It’s now called System Settings and it’s designed to better resemble the iOS Settings app. Apple’s desire to have more commonality between macOS and iOS is understandable, but the problem is that it’s now a chore to find the settings you need. The years of muscle memory developed by Mac users are out the window and it’s time to relearn where everything is. You can find most of the frequently-access preferences up front (Apple ID, Battery, Bluetooth, and Sound, for example). Others have been renamed to match the corresponding iOS setting, such as Security & Privacy, which is now Privacy & Security. But most notably, System Settings now uses a lot of subsections and lists,…

美元制壩下的失速經濟

美元制壩下的失速經濟

自聯準會於今年3月啟動升息循環以來,美元之外的歐、美、亞洲等多數國家貨幣幾乎就像自由落體般,受美國這個全球第一大經濟體的「引力」牽引,對美元匯率的走勢一路下墜。美元獨強所造成的「貨幣亂世」災情陸續上演……。 究竟,這場以「超級美元」為名的風暴會如何演變?美元制霸下的全球經濟又將走向何方? 「近二十年未見價位,三十四年來新低,一九八五年來最低。」以上,分別是歐元、日圓,與英鎊,對美元的最新匯率。 九月十三日,美國公布八月消費者物價指數(CPI),年增八.三%的數字高於市場原先預期;為對抗頑強通膨,一周後的九月二十二日,美國聯準會(Fed)宣布升息三碼,並釋出今年年底前可能再升五碼的暗示,美元匯率又是一陣向上噴發,九月二十六日美元指數一度衝破一一四,這是二○○二年五月以來的最高點。 自聯準會於今年三月啟動升息循環以來,美元之外,歐、美、亞等多數國家貨幣幾乎就像自由落體,受到美國這個全球第一大經濟體「貨幣緊縮」的引力牽引,對美元匯率的走勢一路下墜。 截至九月二十七日, 歐元兌美元來到○.九六六,今年以來大跌十五.○九%,日圓兌美元為一四四.二五, 暴跌二五. 三% ;…

広告企画 透明・透光素材

広告企画 透明・透光素材

多層構造溶着ガラスによる ガラスブロック GLASS MONUMENT SERIES クリアガラスの中にカラーガラス、気泡などを多層に 封じ込めたガラスブロック。厚みも20~70 ㎜と厚く、 ガラスのボリュームある質感が美しさを表現する。エッ ジライトを採用することでより効果のある素材の美し さをより表現できるほか、強度や耐候性にも優れるため、 屋外での使用にも対応する。 がらすらんど URL◎http://www.garasu-land.com/ 電話◎(03)3235-1671 〔資料請求番号751〕 天然石とガラスを組み合わせた内装材 Mystic Glass 天然石とガラスを組み合わせることで、ガラスの艶感や光沢と天 然石の素材感が一体となった意匠性を表現できる内装材「Mystic Glass(ミスティックグラス)」。天然石の表面をガラスで保護する ことで、風化や汚れによる変色を軽減しメンテナンス性も高めて いる。石の色や模様をそのまま表現した「クレイタイプ」、パール 感のある雲母が多く含まれ、表面の凹凸感が高級感を演出する「マ…

Buried in an Avalanche

Buried in an Avalanche

I felt the avalanche roll to a stop and the snow set like concrete around my chest until I could barely breathe. It was pitch-black beneath the surface, and I knew there wasn’t enough air to last more than a few minutes. There’s no one coming to dig me out, I thought. This is it. A few weeks prior, my girlfriend Annick, myself, and two of our friends and ski partners, Matt and Laura, all secured a week off work for a backcountry trip. After checking forecasts near our home in Whitehorse, Yukon, we decided the most promising snow lay 14 hours away near Terrace, British Columbia. So, we headed south. We hadn’t been to Terrace in years, and the snow was deep. The issue: The avalanche forecast was holding steady at…

Ginza Sony Park

GINZA SONY PARK, Tokyo Designer Ginza Sony Park Project 設計/Ginza Sony Park Project 協力/内装設計 乃村工藝社 施工/大成建設 乃村工藝社(内装) 都市とシームレスにつながる公園 1966年に芦原義信氏の設計により建設さ れたソニービルが、2018年8月「Ginza Sony Park(銀座ソニーパーク)」としてリニューアル オープンした。 13年にソニー社員と外部の識者で構成され るプロジェクトチームが発足し、「ソニービル を建て替えるかどうか」という段階から議論が 行われ、企画と設計が進められてきた。ソニー がつくったプロジェクトのコンセプトは「ソニー ビルを新しい情報発信基地へと刷新すること」 「人々にリアルな体験を感じてもらえること」「銀 座をより心地よい街にすること」。それをベー スとして、設計の舵取りをしたのは、チームメ ンバーの1人である建築家の荒木信雄氏だ。 設計テーマの一つは「解体をデザインする」。 地上はソニービルの「花びら式構造」と呼ばれ るスキップフロアを2層分残して解体。地下は…

Ginza Sony Park
ニューヨークで フードホールを設計して、 今感じていること

ニューヨークで フードホールを設計して、 今感じていること

Space Design Of Food Halls 04 OPEN KITCHEN III オープンキッチン 3号店 123 William Street, New York, NY 10005 路面店より、 フードホールが面白い時代へ 宮園さんが率いるBLANK DESIGNは、ニュー ヨークで「OPEN KITCHEN(オープンキッチ ン)」(P.86)と「UNION FARE( ユニオンフェア)」 (P.89)という二つのフードホールブランドの 空間デザインを手掛けた。2016年4月にオー プンした後者は、マンハッタンの中心部・ユ ニオンスクエアに誕生した巨大フードホール として、話題を呼んでいる。 「ニューヨークのフードホールが盛り上がっ てきたのは、つい最近のことです。もともとニューヨークには地下街がなく、これまでは 路面店が面白かった。ニューヨークのデザイ ナー達にとって、飲食店が集積した日本の業 態は興味深く捉えられていました。例えば、スー パーポテトの杉本貴志さんが手掛けた、新宿 の現ルミネエストのレストランフロア『シュ ンカン』、東京ミッドタウン、百貨店のデパ地…

TOPICS

※価格は税別金額です UV硬化不燃化粧板「アルディカ」 アイカ工業は、大胆で鮮やかなデザインとリアルな質感をもつUV硬化不燃化粧板 「アルディカ」に新柄を追加した。重量は一般的な石材の約1/4と軽量で、接着剤 や両面テープでの簡単施工。輸送、間配りコストの削減や、職人不足問題対策に も貢献する。新柄として「+WONDER(プラスワンダー)」で人気の「コンビネーショ ンシリーズ」と同柄の13点や、レザーアンティコ、グレインモルタルなど、全28 点を追加。サイズ:450㎜角~、価格:4,400円/枚~。国土交通大臣認定 NM-4093、NM-4093-1。 アイカ工業 URL◎www.aica.co.jp 電話◎0120-525-100 http://www.aica.co.jp 電話◎0120-525-100 〔資料請求番号901〕 和風旅館や料亭に最適な和灯具シリーズ 新発売 ウシオライティングは、マックスレイブランドの和灯具シリーズ「眞 SHIN」を発 売開始した。日本伝統の和灯具の技法とスタイルを忠実に再現し、合理的かつシ…

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Can We Get To $15 Without A Fight?

Can We Get To $15 Without A Fight?

The push for a $15 federal minimum wage may have stalled in Congress, but Covid-19 is helping steer the U.S. ever closer toward a key objective of labor unions and their allies in the White House and on Capitol Hill. An analysis of jobs posted from spring 2019 to spring 2021 from a sampling of cities shows many service-sector industries crossed above a $15 starting wage during the period, often by significant margins, according to Emsi Burning Glass, an analytics firm that tracks job postings to glean labor market insights. The trend seems to have gathered steam in the recovery from the Covid recession, with several large employers, including Walmart, Target, Best Buy, and Chipotle Mexican Grill, bumping up starting or average hourly pay to $15 or more. Amazon.com Inc. recently…

それぞれが語る、デザイナー杉本貴志

それぞれが語る、デザイナー杉本貴志

「そりゃ正論だけどさ」と ひっくり返す杉本さんは 無印のバロメーターだった 原 研哉(日本デザインセンター) 1980年、「無印良品」は 当時の西武流通グループ代表・堤清二さんのもと、 田中一光さん、小池一子さんの発案により 西友のプライベートブランドとしてスタートした。 83年、杉本貴志さんは、青山に最初の路面店をデザインし、 以降、2018年の「MUJI HOTEL」まで、 一貫して無印良品の店舗デザインを手掛けると同時に、 アドバイザリーボードメンバー(経営諮問委員)として 「無印良品らしさ」とは何かを問い続けてきた。 2001年からメンバーに加わった原研哉さんに、 ボードメンバーとして協働してきた杉本さんの姿を聞いた。 取材・文/塩野哲也 ポートレート撮影/堀口宏明 「正しい答え」をひっくり返す ─無印良品というと、外部のクリエイター によって構成されたアドバイザリーボードが 知られています。実際の活動はどのように行 われているのでしょうか。 基本的に月1回、朝8~10時くらいまで無 印良品の経営陣や社員を交えミーティングを 行います。ボードメンバーの面々は、それぞ…

DID COVID HEAL NATURE?

DID COVID HEAL NATURE?

THE WELSH VILLAGE of Llandudno went quiet in March as stay-at-home orders began. Then the goats descended from the mountain. A wild herd of Kashmiri goats has lived near Llandudno for almost two centuries, and they sometimes come down from the Great Orme Mountain during inclement weather. But this spring, while the human world hit pause, they settled into town for a few days, munching on hedges and trotting down the empty streets. The goats joined a host of animal celebrities flooding the internet after they supposedly reclaimed urban areas: dolphins frolicking in Venice’s clean canals, elephants drunk on corn wine in a tea garden in China’s Yunnan province. Tweets announcing these events proclaimed that nature was recovering from years of abuse by humans, thanks to COVID-19 shutdowns. While the goats really did…

DE BÄSTA HELT TRÅDLÖSA PROPPARNA

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DE BÄSTA HELT TRÅDLÖSA PROPPARNA

How the Ukraine Invasion Almost Wounded a Covid Pill

On the eve of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, chemist Tetiana Matviyuk worked late into the night at her Kyiv office. By the time she wrapped up around 10:30 p.m., she’d signed out of a Zoom meeting with a global team of scientists working on a new Covid-19 treatment. The day before, she’d shipped crucial compounds to colleagues in the U.K. and Israel, as her team was closing in on the project’s finish line and their Champagne celebration. But instead of euphoria, Matviyuk was filled with dread. She called her husband on her drive home. “I said, ‘I’m feeling that something bad can happen,’ ” says Matviyuk, principal scientist in medicinal chemistry and computer drug design at contract research group Enamine Ltd. in Kyiv. “He was just laughing at me, that…

How the Ukraine Invasion Almost Wounded a Covid Pill
PARKING

PARKING

Los arrecifes de coral Hisbalit presenta reef, su nueva colección de mosaico de piscina inspirada en los arrecifes de coral, con seis referencias con efectos difuminados, toma los colores y la belleza de los fondos marinos. Combinación perfecta Classe es la combinación perfecta de un estilo clásico y contemporáneo, con curvas delicadas y una estructura marcada. La colección presenta sillas y sillones apilables realizados en polipropileno llenos de personalidad y muy ergonómicos. Yonoh Studio diseñó esta colección para Möwee. Luz intimista gada, diseño del estudio Boti de Dominicis para Estiluz, es un refugio de donde emana una luz, que quiere iluminar, pero no ser vista. aportando confort visual y espacial, sus cuidadas proporciones la hacen ligera a los sentidos. La pureza de la forma y la funcionalidad están sintetizadas en un único gesto capaz de…

MANY Radical New Applications

MANY Radical New Applications

A year ago, Moderna Inc. was an unprofitable company with no marketed products and a promising but totally unproven technology. None of its experimental drugs and vaccines had ever completed a large-scale trial. Experts were divided on how well the mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccine it was about to enter in a Phase III trial would stack up against older, more established vaccine technologies. This year, Moderna could deliver 1 billion doses of its Covid shot and bring in $19 billion in revenue. It’s become the rare biotech to hit the big time without being gobbled up by, or splitting profits with, a larger, more established company. Its market value—which hit $100 billion for the first time on July 14—exceeds that of stalwarts such as Bayer AG, the German inventor of aspirin, and…

Acceptance

October is the rainiest month of the year, the most unbearable month of the year. It is unbearable for those who need to leave the house to go to the bank, the market, the bakery. I had to go to the bank, to the market, the bakery. And I didn’t have anyone to go for me, of course. But I didn’t have a car and I depended on the weather to cooperate. The bastard was stubborn. Sunday, rain. Monday, rain. Tuesday, rain. Wednesday, rain. I was already upset. Thursday, rain. Friday, a miracle, the sun came out. I left home with a new lease on life. I needed to buy bread. I walked through the streets with the speed of a hare. In the store windows, the fancy clothes of various…

Two steps beyond

Two steps beyond

The FIA has continued its path to reduce competition in the face of cost control measures and in the FIA WEC awarded Michelin the Hypercar tyre deal, while Goodyear was granted the LMP2 sole supplier contract. Naturally, both manufacturers have been tasked with providing tyres that fit the FIA’s performance targets and while Michelin has a parameter for Hypercar that is all new, Goodyear has been given the job of coming out of open competition and running tyres significantly slower than in 2020. The criteria was laid out in the tender and both companies submitted bids, but the manufacturers on which the FIA increasingly relies insisted Michelin be awarded Hypercar, while Goodyear provides tyres for the customer racing LMP2 class. ‘You don’t get a one size fits all anywhere, but especially in…

French Accent

THE PROJECT BEGAN, AS MANY DO, WITH THE renovation of a house, this one in sunny Southern California. But in the hands of Anthony Baratta and his former partner, William Diamond, it then expanded to include some really unusual spaces and outbuildings: an ethereal dining pavilion, for instance; a partyready porte cochere; a vine-wrapped poolside pergola–cum–screening room; and, in the garden, a freestanding kitchen that happens to look like a greenhouse. “When we started,” says the wife, “we were thinking we wanted the house to be great for a wedding.” But what the homeowners, transplanted New Yorkers with three grown children, wound up with is so much more. Baratta describes the resulting West Coast château as an “over-the-top place in Provence.” In these days of midcentury everything, French decor is so rare…

French Accent
Drive Innovation with Better Decision-Making Don’t let old habits undermine your organization’s creativity.

Drive Innovation with Better Decision-Making Don’t let old habits undermine your organization’s creativity.

AUTHORS To stay competitive, today’s business leaders are investing millions in digital tools, agile methodologies, and lean strategies. Too often, however, those efforts produce neither the breakthrough operational processes nor the blockbuster business models companies need—at least not before their competitors introduce their own advances. And a key culprit is the inability to make quick and effective innovation decisions. The discovery-driven innovation processes companies now rely on involve an unprecedented number of choices, from big go/no-go gates that govern which ideas are pursued to countless decisions about how to conduct experiments, what data to collect, how to interpret findings, and how to act on them. But in companies that are just learning to experiment, too many decisions are made inefficiently or informed by past experience and narrow perspectives. As a result, critical risks…

Elemental Inspirations

“We rely on patterns, and we also cherish and admire them. Few things are as beautiful to look at as a ripple, a spiral, or a rosette. They are visually succulent. The mind savors them.”–Diane Ackerman, By Nature’s Design Looking through my recent images, I noticed many new “nature’s design” photographs. I have long been attracted to patterns found in mud cracks, water ripples, sand dunes and crystallized ice. The lines, shapes and forms are like magnets to me. Before any thoughts about how or why specific patterns catch my eye, I am first hit in the gut with a sense of wonder. In an evolutionary sense, humans have always needed to recognize shapes and forms—especially those related to survival, such as spotting a predator hunting you for dinner. Recognizing the outline…

Elemental Inspirations
That’s My Jam!

That’s My Jam!

PEACH-CHILE JAM ACTIVE: 30 min TOTAL: 2½ hr (plus chilling) MAKES: about 1¾ cups 1¾ pounds ripe peaches (5 to 8)¾ cup sugarPinch of salt1 red Fresno chile pepper, seeded and finely chopped2 tablespoons golden syrup 1. Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Cut a small X in the bottom of each peach; add to the boiling water for 1 minute. Transfer to a bowl of ice water to cool; drain and peel off the skins with a paring knife. (Or for harder peaches, remove skins with a vegetable peeler.) 2. Chop the peaches. Combine with the sugar, salt and chile in a medium saucepan. Toss and let stand until the sugar dissolves and the liquid is syrupy, 10 to 20 minutes. 3. Add the syrup to the pan and bring to a rapid…

Goldman Sachs Rethinks Retail

Goldman Sachs Rethinks Retail

David Solomon, the chief executive officer of Goldman Sachs Group Inc., jumped on a flight in 2019 to meet Reese Witherspoon. The Legally Blonde star-turned-mogul was toying with offering online financial services to her fans, and the head of Wall Street’s most prestigious bank wanted in. He saw it as a potential source of business for Marcus, Goldman’s foray into digital banking for the masses. That moment may have been peak Marcus. Solomon, who’s spent much of his four years atop Goldman pitching shareholders and his own executives on the benefits of building a full-service digital bank, is now reeling in those aspirations and the resources dedicated to the project. (The meeting with Witherspoon didn’t lead to a deal.) Cost overruns and missed profitability goals have set off discontent inside the bank,…

Introduction: Dwelling Studies and Japan’s Women Architects

Introduction: Dwelling Studies and Japan’s Women Architects

Momoyo Kaijima Dwelling Studies in the 21st Century Dwelling makes up the basic architecture that we, as living organisms, have created to protect ourselves. We repeatedly supply ourselves with water and nutrition, breathe, metabolize, and produce heat in order to sustain ourselves. As our way of living changes, so does the form of our dwellings, but not all at once, which makes it interesting. The repetitions of daily life – in other words, the autonomous movements of living that come from within – must change with time to adapt to the environment. At the beginning of the 20th century, when the field of dwelling studies was born in Japan, Japanese society was going through a period of rapid industrialization, modernization, and urbanization after the Meiji Restoration of the Edo period. In the…

LETTERS

Working With Robots I found ‘Welcome, Robots’ (June) an insightful read. While I marvelled at the technology, I worried where it might end. Robots may be more efficient but not at the expense of humans – or so I thought. When Mark Borman said, “We’re going through a generational change… in agriculture” and that younger people aren’t choosing these jobs, previously I would have thought it best to encourage humans to fill these positions, not a robotic workforce. But it doesn’t have to be one or the other, it can be a collaborative effort. RAY POULSON The Lasting Effect Of A Golf Game ‘Golf, A Game Of Life’ (My Story, June) resonated with me. At the high school where I taught, the staff always had a golf day on the first day of the…

LETTERS
First Look: 2023 Ford Escape

First Look: 2023 Ford Escape

Few vehicles sharing the same basic platform are better differentiated than the boxy, go-anywhere Bronco Sport and the urban-outfitted, lozenge-shaped Escape. Had these C2 platform-mates looked more similar, the former might have cannibalized the latter’s sales. Both are selling at or near capacity three years into the fourth-gen Escape’s model run, but Ford has toughened up softer-looking Escape’s visage and demeanor anyway. Most of the redesign comes courtesy of a bolder new hood, which sits atop a more deeply sculpted grille flanked by a pair of LED-outlined “four-eyed” headlamps. On upper trim levels, a so-called “coast-to-coast” LED light strip connects these headlamp DRLs, illuminating the gap between the hood and grille. A new fascia incorporating a faux skidplate completes the makeover. Other exterior changes are minimal: new 17-, 18-, and 19-inch…

AmEx Reclaims Its Throne

Inside the American Express Co. lounge at John F. Kennedy International Airport, the smell of success is in the air. A bartender mixes drinks with ice cubes stamped 1850, the year AmEx was founded. Twentysomethings can be found draped over the lavish furniture, filming their next TikTok video and eating cuisine from a Michelin-starred chef. Wafting through the room is a specially crafted blend of bergamot, pink peppercorns, lavender and leather—the same concoction used in the scratch-and-sniff ads that helped rope in a record number of new Platinum cardholders this year. The lounges have become so popular in recent months that AmEx sometimes has to turn members away. Just over two years ago, the company faced an existential crisis. It already had been losing customers to the likes of JPMorgan Chase &…

AmEx Reclaims Its Throne
Exxodus

Exxodus

Shortly after Exxon Mobil Corp. lost its battle with an activist investor last year, an executive named Bill Keillor decided to give his department a morale boost. It had been a difficult year and a half for Exxon employees. Covid-19 and plunging crude prices had led to halted salary increases, reduced benefits, and, for the first time in decades, thousands of layoffs. Anxiety was coursing through the organization. So Keillor, whose title is global IT vice president, and his leadership team organized an awards ceremony to take place at Exxon’s Houston campus. They posted an invite on Yammer, an internal social network, with Keillor’s face cropped onto a tuxedo. With many employees still working remotely, most tuned in via Zoom. Keillor started by thanking everyone for their hard work over the past…

Meta’s Flop Is the End of FAANG

Meta’s Flop Is the End of FAANG

When a big stock dives, as Meta Platforms Inc. did on Oct. 27, dropping almost 25%, investors are often urged to take the long view of its performance. In this case, it hardly helps. If you bought Meta five years ago—back when the company was still known as Facebook—you’d be down about 49%, in a period when the S&P 500 climbed 45%. Meta has not only erased its gains from the pandemic, which turned social media into an essential technology, but also fallen back to where it was in 2015. Meta isn’t just another stock—it was a constituent of the FAANG group, investors’ shorthand for a set of seemingly invincible technology companies. Along with the former Facebook, there were Amazon.com, Apple, Netflix and Google parent Alphabet. Despite their high valuations, many…

The Unstoppable Dollar

The mighty dollar is steamrolling everything right now, causing issues for economies almost everywhere—except the US. That means that, for now at least, it’s not America’s problem and the historic central-bank-fueled surge in the greenback is unlikely to abate soon. By some measures the US currency is already stronger than ever, eclipsing the highs from early in the Covid‑19 pandemic. The pain it’s inflicting has echoes of the mid-1980s, when foreign exchange chaos forced the world’s top finance officials to impose a joint solution on markets. This time, though, it’s every country for itself as the US pushes back on the idea of coordinated market action. With the risk of economic damage spreading, officials from Tokyo to Santiago have been drawn into the fray to prop up their currencies. But Federal Reserve…

The Unstoppable Dollar

GRACE PERIOD

Tis call’d the evil:A most miraculous work in this good king;Which often, since my here-remain in England,I have seen him do. How he solicits heaven,Himself best knows: but strangely-visited people,All swoln and ulcerous, pitiful to the eye,The mere despair of surgery, he cures,Hanging a golden stamp about their necks,Put on with holy prayers: and ’tis spoken,To the succeeding royalty he leavesThe healing benediction. With this strange virtue,He hath a heavenly gift of prophecy,And sundry blessings hang about his throne,That speak him full of grace. These words are spoken by Malcolm in Act IV of Macbeth. The ‘good king’ in question is Edward the Confessor, one of the last of England’s Anglo-Saxon monarchs. The king’s touch capable of restoring those scrofulous wretches to health was a medieval belief that persisted into the early…

GRACE PERIOD

40 ANNI DI AD ITALIA

AD N.79 Dicembre 1987 Piacenza AD N.89 Ottobre 1988 Moltrasio, Como AD N.130 Marzo 1992 Milano AD N.165 Febbraio 1995 Firenze AD N.165 Febbraio 1995 Borgarello, Pavia AD N.176 Gennaio 1996 Milano AD N.177 Febbraio 1996 Milano AD N.192 Maggio 1997 Sovicille, Siena AD N.212 Gennaio 1999 Milano AD N.215 Aprile 1999 Roma AD N.257 Ottobre 2002 Como AD N.261 Febbraio 2003 Milano AD N.270 Novembre 2003 Firenze AD N.272 Gennaio 2004 Milano AD N.273 Febbraio 2004 San Felice a Cancello, Caserta AD N.287 Aprile 2005 Pavia AD N.298 Marzo 2006 Portofino, Genova AD N.306 Novembre 2006 Vicenza AD N.329 Ottobre 2008 Torino AD N.331 Dicembre 2008 Venezia AD N.335 Aprile 2009 Padova AD N.341 Ottobre 2009 Napoli AD N.370 Marzo 2012 Crete Senesi, Siena AD N.371 Aprile 2012 Milano AD N.371 Aprile 2012 Milano AD N.371 Aprile 2012 Milano AD N.376 Settembre 2012 Chianti, Toscana AD N.376 Settembre 2012 Mogliano Veneto, Treviso AD N.383 Aprile 2013 Milano AD…

40 ANNI DI AD ITALIA

Cracks in the Foundation

When Twitter Inc. co-founder Jack Dorsey invited Elon Musk to speak at a companywide retreat in early 2020, he asked the Tesla Inc. chief executive officer a prescient hypothetical question. “If you were running Twitter—by the way, do you want to run Twitter?” Dorsey joked as employees laughed. “What would you do?” Musk, who at the time was neither the world’s richest man nor Twitter’s biggest headache, took the question seriously. “I think it would be helpful to differentiate between real” and fake accounts, he replied, his face projected onto several giant video screens inside the Houston convention center as more than 4,000 Twitter employees sat listening. Musk specifically called out “botnets” and “troll armies” for trying to manipulate the social media network. “What’s real public opinion, and what’s not?” he…

Cracks in the Foundation
Glasgow School of Art

Glasgow School of Art

Glasgow, United Kingdom 1896–1899, 1907–1909 Charles Rennie Mackintosh emerged professionally at the young age of 27 when he won a competition to design a new building for Glasgow School of Art – the most important work of his life. Mackintosh studied there from the age of 16, designed its new building, and taught there until 1913, when he left Glasgow to spend his final years in southern France. It was here that he had important encounters with the school director Francis Henry Newbery, along with schoolmates James Herbert MacNair and sisters Margaret and Frances MacDonald, with whom he later formed a group of designers called The Glasgow Four and worked on the continent. With this building Mackintosh forged a new style of architecture that broke away from traditional classical styles, focusing instead…

First Look: 2024 Cadillac Celestiq

First Look: 2024 Cadillac Celestiq

Is the 2024 Cadillac Celestiq for real? This head-turning, all-electric superluxury sedan is longer than the brand’s Escalade SUV and priced in a stratosphere Cadillac has long only dreamed of returning to. To wit: Pricing will start above the $300,000 threshold, but customers can easily add up to $100,000 more via customization, all but guaranteeing no two owners have the same exact car. The mere fact Cadillac is producing the Celestiq is nearly as surprising as the vehicle itself, which fulfills a longstanding desire to build a proper flagship. An idea became a vision, then a concept car, and now a fabulous final-form four-door that brings to life almost all the gee-whiz features envisioned along the way. The Celestiq has an estimated 600 hp and 640 lb-ft of torque, a 0–60…

京都の「路地」と日常を フードホールに引き込む

京都の「路地」と日常を フードホールに引き込む

京都人による京都人のための 京都のフードホール 「京都らしさを演出するために、格子などで 単純に和モダンに寄せるというのは、ないなと 考えました」と、森井良幸さんは「京都タワーサ ンド フードホール」の設計当初を振り返る。京 都タワーの地下1階から2階までをリニューア ルした商業施設「京都タワーサンド」のコンセ プトメイキングを議論するメンバーに参加し 空間デザインまでを手掛けており、地下1階は フードホールとして企画した。設計に当たって 森井さんは、国内外の観光客がイメージする日 本らしさや京都らしさからあえて外すことを意 識したと言う。 「そのようなものは、日本各地の空港内の商 業エリアや、大阪や東京の観光地、もちろん京 都の至る所にもあるじゃないですか。『京都タ ワー』は、昔からずっと京都駅前にあるランド マークで、見た目からして京都そのもの。わざ わざ『日本』や『京都』を重ねて表現する必要 はないと考えました」 ①メキシカン「ロティチキン&ジャッキータコス デリカテッセン」 ②ぎょうざ「ぎょうざ処 亮昌」 ③焼き鳥・とり料理・日本酒「鳥せい」 ④とんかつ/串かつ「名代…

Think Space B2S

設計/クライン ダイサム アーキテクツ ローカルアーキテクト Design M&A Co.,Ltd 協力/設備設計 ELMech Sotech 家具 Dypas Decon 照明計画 FDS Corporation 施工/Chanpipat Powerdecon Book Store THINK SPACE B2S, Thailand Designer Klein Dytham Architecture 空間体験にフォーカスした複合空間 「Think Space B2 S(シンク スペース ビー ツーエス)」はタイ郊外のショッピングセンター 「CentralFestival Eastville」内に位置する、タ イ国内大手書店「B2S」の旗艦店だ。来訪者の アイデアやインスピレーションを育む空間を 目指し、読書やコワーキングスペースを大空間 の随所に配している。 「ブックテラス」をコンセプトに設計された 店内は、吹き抜けの空間に棚田状のスキップフ ロアが連なり、その周囲を取り囲むようにキュ レーションされた書籍や雑貨が展開し、周辺に 配されたベンチでゆっくり本を読むことができる。…

Think Space B2S

My Running Life

RUNNE R’S WORLD+ MEMBER ROBYN M. JOHNSON, 57 BUSINESS MANAGEMENT DIRECTOR / MANASSAS, VIRGINIA ONE MAILBOX AT A TIME. A Week in the Life I run three days a week, unless running is programmed into a CrossFit workout. My typical training consists of intervals or hills on Monday, CrossFit on Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, a midweek goal-pace run on Wednesday, and a long run on Saturday. Sunday is for REST. IRON TOUGH In 2023, I plan to continue my streak as an “Iron Miler” and complete the Marine Corps Historic Half in May. When the half marathon started in 2008, it was called the Iron Mile Company. So every person who’s run that same race since is called an “Iron Miler.” When it started, there were over 3,000 members, but the number is now down to just…

My Running Life
SILENT TREATMENT

SILENT TREATMENT

For too long, the City of Toronto has outsourced its pollution problem to nearby Lake Ontario. Contaminants include the obvious culprits — raw sewage and industrial runoff — but also stormwater, which the advocacy organization Lake Ontario Waterkeeper calls “a nightmare of an environmental issue.” During rainfall, water runs along the roads and down the gutters, picking up sediment and mixing with oil, fertilizer and pesticides before disappearing into storm drains and into the sewage system. During heavy storms, though, it overwhelms the system and instead gets discharged into the lake. In 2010, Waterfront Toronto, the public corporation tasked with revitalizing the city’s thoughtlessly built and polluted downtown lakefront, hired Gh3* to design a stormwater-treatment centre in the West Don Lands area, southeast of Toronto’s core. Christopher Glaisek, chief planning and…

ロジカルなプレゼンテーションで クライアントの真意を導き出す

ロジカルなプレゼンテーションで クライアントの真意を導き出す

Talk Session SAMURAI 佐藤可士和、齊藤良博 × アーキセプトシティ 室井淳司 マテリアルで “ アトモスフィア” を共有する ―まず、SAMURAIのお二人に新業態のケー スについてお伺いします。コナカのオーダースー ツブランド「DIFFERENCE」(17年12月号) の業態開発を手掛けられた時、どのようなプ レゼンテーションをしたのですか。 佐藤 「DIFFERENCE」では、プレゼン=打 ち合わせという感じでした。コナカの湖中 社長とは、10年以上前に「SUIT SELECT」の ブランディングに関わった当時から、いつか オーダースーツの新業態をつくりましょうと 話していました。 スマホが普及し、アプリケーションが開発 しやすくなるなど環境が整い、実店舗とウェ ブを利用したオーダースーツ業態のプロジェ クトをスタートさせました。まずは、入りに くく、ちょっと面倒なイメージがあるテーラー の敷居を下げ、旧来のオーダーというよりも、 自分に合うスーツをパーソナライズしていっ たらいいのではと発想しました。最初の1 回はスマホの専用アプリで予約し、来店。店…

WHAT IT’S LIKE TO … WIN A LIONS SERIES IN SOUTH AFRICA

WHAT IT’S LIKE TO … WIN A LIONS SERIES IN SOUTH AFRICA

HAVING SPENT the previous eight years in rugby league, Alan Tait was shocked when a letter arrived informing him of his selection for the 1997 British & Irish Lions. So highly thought of was the Kelso man, who had represented Widnes, Leeds and Great Britain during his time in the 13-man code, that he was drafted in by Ian McGeechan and Jim Telfer to tackle South Africa. “I had no idea I was even being considered,” Tait, now 57, says. “It was a real surprise to me. I’d just come back to union and was playing at Newcastle. I got a couple of caps during the Five Nations and it was a whirlwind. I didn’t think I’d get on the tour but getting the letter to say I’d been selected, I…

杉本貴志の仕事1990─2018

杉本貴志の仕事1990─2018

Commentator 飯島直樹 いいじま・なおき インテリアデザイナー。1949年埼 玉生まれ。武蔵野美術大学造形学 部産業デザイン科卒業。百貨店勤 務を経て76年からスーパーポテト 勤務。85年飯島直樹デザイン室設立。 鈴木紀慶 すずき・のりよし 編集者、建築ジャーナリスト、大阪芸術大 学客員教授。1980年武蔵野美術大学建 築学科卒業。「インテリア(JAPANINTERIOR DESIGN)」「icon」編集部を経てフリー。 共著に「日本インテリアデザイン史」など。 橋本夕紀夫 はしもと・ゆきお インテリアデザイナー。1962年愛 知生まれ。86年愛知県立芸術大学 デザイン学科卒業。同年よりスー パーポテト勤務。96年橋本夕紀夫 デザインスタジオ設立。 松本軍四郎 まつもと・ぐんしろう 編集者。1943 年東京生まれ。中央 大学法学部卒業。69年商店建築社 入社。92~2002年「月刊商店建築」 編集長。04年よりファーイースト・ デザイン・エディターズ主宰。 1992 高浜モザイク( 神戸 松本 「 ナンバーワンよりオンリーワン」のコンセプトで、…

ROASTERY CAFE DESIGN

焙煎によって変化する風味を味わうのも、コーヒー の楽しみ方の一つ。カフェにロースタリー(焙煎工房) を併設し、自家焙煎で個性を表現する店舗はますま す増えている。独自のコーヒーカルチャーを発信する オーストラリア・メルボルンと、日本国内から、大小 さまざまなロースタリーカフェを紹介する。 扉写真/MARKET LANE COFFEE プラーンマーケット店 撮影/Blake Rosenberg PART 1 Roas tery Cafes in Melbourne 生活に溶け込む ロースタリーカフェ を巡る 近年、カフェのオーナーやコーヒー関係者達の間で、独自のコーヒーカル チャーが話題となる街、オーストラリアのメルボルン。オーストラリアでは、 かつてイタリアからの移民が持ち込んだエスプレッソマシンに端を発し、 1950年以降にエスプレッソが広まったと言われている。オーストラリアと ニュージーランドだけで使われる、「フラットホワイト」や「ロングブラック」 といった呼び名は、現在では日本の一部のカフェでも見掛けるようになった。…

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CreatorsNavi クリエイターズナビ

CreatorsNavi クリエイターズナビ

しゅんしゅん shunshun Drawing Artist | e-mail: shunshunten@gmail.com 素描家。1978年高知県生まれ。広島県在住。建築を経て絵の道へ。抽象画から具象画まで、繊 細な「線」で表現した作品で知られる。小川 糸著「ツバキ文具店」の装画、東京国立博物館「博 物館で野外シネマ」イベントフライヤーのイラストなど、書籍、広告の仕事も多数。 Born in Kochi Prefecture in 1978. Lives in Hiroshima. Took the path towards drawing via architecture. Expresses subtle lines in everything from abstract painting to concrete painting. Has created numerous designs for books and advertising, including book cover design for Ito Ogawa’s Tsubaki Stationery…

Family Story

Family Story

My name is Francesca Sorrenti and I am a first-generation American. My mom was from Naples. My story started in the Fall of 1969 when I met the father of my children. By the Christmas of 1970 we were married and in the summer of 1971 we flew off to live in Naples. My first child, Mario, was born the following October, then came Vanina, in 1973, and Davide, in 1976. Unfortunately, Davide was born with a genetic disorder called Thalassemia. I felt that the best way to give Davide a better life was to move to New York, which we did in 1982. It was very difficult for us, in the beginning. My children did not know a word of English and I could not find a job in New…

Ebon Oak Rocker

PROJECT #2110_ Skill Level: Intermediate Time: 3 Days Cost: $300 Rocking chairs are great things to have around the house. There’s just something relaxing about a rocker, especially if it has the right proportions to be both comfortable and aesthetically pleasing. Add some soft chenille cushions, and this rocker makes a pretty nice spot to read a book or chat with a friend. This rocker is modeled after a Charles Limbert design circa 1914. In 1915 a new catalog debuted a line of “Ebon-Oak” furniture, which added dark wood inlays to existing Limbert Furniture Company’s offerings, as well as introduced some new inlaid pieces. Interestingly, this rocker was not included in the company’s printed catalog. One standout feature of this chair is the single corbel found under each armrest. Limbert was known to incorporate single…

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Expo 2000 Hanover Japan Pavilion

Expo 2000 Hanover Japan Pavilion

My first meeting with Frei Otto was on July 1, 1997 when I visited him in the small town of Warmbronn outside Stuttgart, where he had his atelier. I have had great respect for Otto ever since my years in college and will never forget the excitement I felt on my first encounters with his Munich Olympic Stadium and Multihalle in Mannheim. The client and general producer for the Japan Pavilion at the Hanover Expo is the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO). They approached me with the idea of building the pavilion with paper architecture. When we realized that we would need a collaborator on the German side, the first name that occurred to me was Otto. However, I had not seen any work by him since the 1980s and didn’t…

Gaming the Ecosystem

Gaming the Ecosystem

Lou Barbe wouldn’t call himself an avid gamer. As an ecologist at the Université de Rennes in France, he spends most of his time with plants. But one game has captured his imagination since childhood: StarCraft, the popular online strategy franchise in which players accrue resources and construct armies of alien fighters to wage war across extraterrestrial landscapes. “I’m not at all a very good player,” says Barbe. “But I understand what’s going on.” While playing StarCraft II — the latest version of the game — a few years ago, Barbe realized that amid all the explosions and lasers, something else was happening. StarCraft was behaving a lot like an ecosystem. “We have an environment,” says Barbe. “We have resources. We have organisms that are competing in this environment. That’s the…

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BANDA BOUND

Bad news folks — there’s a crocodile in the lagoon.” It’s early morning in the remote Raja Ampat islands of eastern Indonesia as our tender glides up to the lonely pier at Goa Keramat, and already the day’s itinerary has taken an unscripted turn. Following a wooden walkway toward the mouth of the half-submerged cave, we scan the turquoise water for signs of the croc, which a local fisherman claims to have spotted the previous day. The only life forms I can see are juvenile needlefish flitting about in the shadows of the craggy limestone cliff. Still, Simon Marsh, our English cruise director, is not taking any chances, no matter how placid and inviting the lagoon looks. “No swimming here today,” he sighs. Thankfully, the creatures awaiting us at our next…

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OVERDÅDIG OASISKRANS I GRØN OG HVID Lad en oasiskrans suge vand i mindst fire timer. Sorter blomster og frøstande i bunker, og lav et skråsnit på dem alle, så de har en passende længde. Vi har brugt grøn hortensia, grøn skimmia, hvide ranunkler og forskellige frøstande fra haven. Stik dem i oasiskransen fra både yder- og inderside og derefter oppefra. Fortsæt, til hele kransen er dækket – kransen skal være tæt. Klip små stifter af elefanttråd, varm dem med en lighter, og spid lysene i bunden. Placér dem herefter i kransen. Sæt den blomstrende krans på et fad med lidt vand. TYND HÆNGEKRANS MED MANGE LYS Form stilke af arkitektens trøst til en krans, Ø ca. 50 cm, og bind den sammen med vindseltråd. Vikl flere lange stilke af arkitektens trøst rundt om…

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What’s next for urban getaways?

What’s next for urban getaways?

Addressing the lack of outdoor public space in urban hospitality, AIDA STUDIO brings one of NYC’s most iconic hotels to new heights. What effects of the coronavirus crisis in the hotel industry have you witnessed? ROLANDO RODRIGUEZ-LEAL: The 2020 pandemic has exposed the vulnerability of the hospitality sector in unprecedented ways. The impact has been felt more acutely in urban settings where open spaces are scarce and where the quintessential hospitality experience is inspired and driven by the density and intensity of city life. For all city lovers, this lifestyle is now, as the result of the pandemic, the epitome of the type of reckless behaviour that leads to mass contagion. NATALIA WRZASK: Yet cities remain important, future-oriented, progressive and innovative places. For over a hundred years, cities have consolidated not just as…

Austin, Reluctant Boomtown

Matthew Congrove got the first offer on his house one month into the pandemic. Now, says Congrove, who lives in an eclectic neighborhood on Austin’s east side, he gets about a half-dozen all-cash offers every week. They come by phone, via text, in the mail, hanging on his doorknob, and slipped under his door. In the boldest attempt, a stranger simply showed up at his home unannounced and asked to buy it. For years, Austin has attracted far-flung newcomers with its food and music scenes, along with low taxes and cost of living. The city grew 30% from 2010 to 2019, making it the fastest-growing major metro area in the country. It was adding about 170 people per day by the end of that period, according to the latest census count.…

Austin, Reluctant Boomtown
Japan Women’s University Library, Classroom and Laboratory Building, and Student Cafeteria

Japan Women’s University Library, Classroom and Laboratory Building, and Student Cafeteria

Tokyo, Japan 2019–2021 As Japan Women’s University celebrated the 120th anniversary of its founding in 2021, the number of students at the Mejiro campus had recently increased from 4,000 to 6,000, following the relocation of the Faculty of Humanities and Sociology from Nishi-Ikuta. To cope with the increasing density of the surroundings, “Mejiro Forest Campus” was conceived as a place that students can occupy as they wish, surrounded by nature, making good use of the existing greenery. This is a campus that is open to the future, even as it blends in with the existing buildings. During the first phase, the aging library was rebuilt in the zone containing the kindergarten affiliated with the university, while the second phase saw the construction of the Classroom and Laboratory Building (the 120th Anniversary…

Feature: Dwelling Studies and Japan’s Women Architects

Feature: Dwelling Studies and Japan’s Women Architects

a+u’s January issue traces the extraordinary achievements by women architects in Japan and examines dwelling studies as a unique approach to the design of environments, centered upon daily living and relationships among people. The field began as a curriculum on “clothing, food, and housing” in the Department of Home Economics at Japan Women’s University at the turn of the 20th century and has played a profound role in the education of women architects in Japan. Masako Hayashi, Nobuko Ogawa, Kazuyo Sejima, Satoko Shinohara, Kazuko Akamatsu are some of the representative figures. Seven essays on these pages provide crucial historical documentation and insight into the early years of women architects making their mark in Japan. A graduate of the program and the issue’s guest editor Momoyo Kaijima defines dwelling studies as…

Backfires

Backfires

USE A COASTER I scanned through your supersedans test and see that you picked the Caddy over the Bimmer and Audi [“Ticket to Ride,” November 2021]. Are you going to do a 40,000-mile test on any of these cars? I would be very curious to see the costs of maintenance and repairs for the Blackwing. My scientific wild-ass guess is that it won’t stand up to hard driving over time. Just a guess. —Terry SottLitchfield Park, AZ We are looking to add a CT5-V Blackwing to our long-term fleet very soon—Ed. How much did BMW pay you for the M5 Competition to come in third? —Philip BrewerMill Valley, CA HORACIO’S MILLIONS I like how you felt the need to include the “.0” to tell us the price of the “$4.0 million” Pagani Huayra Roadster BC [“Masterpiece Theater,”…

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VIBIA GHOST Made of handblown triplex opal glass, Arik Levy’s Ghost line for Vibia is a set that brings a sense of grandness to entryways and living areas. The Ghost table lamp combines two stacked curved forms cinched by a black band, which functions as a handtouch dimmer – its light can also be programmed to emanate a white, burgundy or amber hue. Hung from barely visible cables, the large pendant has a sculptural presence. vibia.com DESALTO FOURMORE The moniker of Gordon Guillaumer’s Desalto dining table Fourmore comes from the ability to host ‘four more’ guests with its extension. Its lacquered steel frame holds up a tabletop in light or dark oak veneered wood that is joined with a seamless sliding system on aluminium tracks. Guillaumer’s design comes in two sizes – 180 (250)…

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