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The New Science of Sleep We live in a shortsighted society that sees sleep as an obstacle to productivity [Jan. 24]. But the truth is quite the opposite. A nightly investment in eight hours of rest may lead to even greater accomplishments. The greatest and most imaginative members of society...
A return to human scale wasn't always on the minds of architectural visionaries?sometimes just the opposite. The second segment of the Mori exhibition is given over partly to proposals by such architects as Japan's Kenzo Tange and Arata Isozaki for spectacular megastructures that are cities in themselves...
The career arc of the Deconstructivists is instructive. When their drawings and early projects first appeared in the late '70s and the '80s, angular, skewed, irregular in every way, they seemed the purest fantasy. But in the space of a generation, cutting-edge methodology became the standard operating procedure. Koolhaas...
But critics are sniping that building Western-themed towns on Shanghai's outskirts is impractical and insensitive in a country that once served as a stomping ground for foreign imperialists. Granted, some of the towns have taken pains to modify their foreign themes with Chinese characteristics. In Pujiang, for instance...
With a minimum price of $490,000 for a villa in Thames Town?more spacious digs go for $669,000?Songjiang New Town will be out of reach for many of the lower- and middle-class Shanghai residents whose housing woes these satellite towns were originally intended to address. More...