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...Millennium Park - exorbitant cost overruns notwithstanding - has been a crowning achievement. His latest endeavor is to imprint the sparkling urban visage on the rest of the world: Daley is currently consumed with luring the 2016 summer Olympic Games to Chicago, and he's already traveled to Beijing, Athens and Barcelona for insights on how those host cities fared...
...vegetables for his Blue Hill restaurants in New York, chef Dan Barber generated buzz with a discussion of why allowing lambs to graze on grass is not only better for the environment and for the animals than grain feeding them, but produces more succulent meat. And Santi Santimaria, of Barcelona's Can Fabes, reproached his colleagues for their constant pursuit of the vanguard. "We're a gang of frauds who work to distract snobs," Santamaria said, before issuing his own manifesto: "The only truth that matters is the product that comes out of the earth, passes through the ovens...
...perhaps, or a burning blast. French architect Jean Nouvel reacted on a higher plane. "There's something archaic about turning knobs to make water run," he says. "The controls should be something you caress rather than manipulate." Thus Nouvel, who designed such innovative buildings as the Torre Agbar in Barcelona and the newly opened Mus?e du Quai Branly in Paris, had found another design challenge. Upscale home-furnishing stores are now rolling out his bathroom fixtures, which he designed to eliminate drips, washers and howls of discomfort from the modern home's most intimate space...
...Jean Nouvel reacted on a higher plane. "There's something archaic about turning knobs to make water run," he says. "The[an error occurred while processing this directive] controls should be something you caress rather than manipulate." Thus Nouvel, who designed such innovative buildings as the Torre Agbar in Barcelona and the newly opened Musée du Quai Branly in Paris, had found another design challenge. Upscale home-furnishing stores are now rolling out his bathroom fixtures, which he designed to eliminate drips, washers and howls of discomfort from the modern home's most intimate space. Nouvel says...
Time Out magazine is the go-to publication for weekly event listings and reviews in cities around the world. The new Time Out Shortlist guidebooks have expanded on that concept to create pocket-size guides to hip happenings in Paris, New York City, Prague, Barcelona and Rome. Written by local journalists, the books offer up a plugged-in guide to the best clubs, pubs, hotels, shops and events of the moment. While not as fresh as a weekly magazine, the guides will be revised annually to stay up-to-date with the fashions and venues in each city they cover...