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...look over the big glass display cases that line the office. They're filled with models of projects and proposals that have the kind of silhouettes you used to see in world's fair pavilions but just about nowhere else. Here's their Selfridges department store in Birmingham, England, a billowing form covered with silvery disks. Here's their upcoming museum for Maserati, the Italian car manufacturer, with its lines that any car designer would call aerodynamic. Here's a phallic skyscraper, never built, that bends like a cattail in the wind. And here's the most implacably futuristic model...
Shaped somewhat like a very large bean?an organic form that has turned up more than once in Future Systems designs?the store gave the jumble of downtown Birmingham a glamorous new focal point. For one thing, it's pillowy. Not a word you typically get to use when describing a building; but Future Systems doesn't make typical buildings. And its mostly windowless exterior is covered by 15,000 anodized aluminum disks packed in rows against a field of stucco painted "Yves Klein blue," the dark blue patented by the French artist. Depending on how you think about...
...Birmingham [Alabama] is good...
...news sources. It builds on what the Journal has long done well: offering busy readers quick summaries of the most important news and business-news developments of the day. On Friday, for example, the Informed Reader presented an eclectic mix of abridged items from the Los Angeles Times, the Birmingham News, Nature magazine and - how 'bout that - TIME...
Having all coursepacks available online would also be a tremendous step but certainly not an easy one. We could start by just not including material that is already available online. Too many coursepacks include copies of Kennedy’s speeches and "A Letter from a Birmingham Jail." Likewise with books: By all means, put the Federalist Papers on the reading list, but also link to them online where they are available in their entirety. And faculty members should stop requiring the newest edition of a book, and instead just recommend which of the editions are suitable. Introductory statistics...