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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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）。…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

“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…

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…

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,…

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％ ；…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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、…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,”…