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...people who follow architecture, SHoP first came seriously into view in 2000, when the firm won a competition to build an outdoor summer hangout in the courtyard of P.S. 1, in Queens, N.Y., an arts-space affiliate of the Museum of Modern Art. It was at a moment when free-form, computer-assisted "blob" architecture was just breaking out of classrooms and professional journals. With a scheme called Dunescape, SHoP proved that blobs could be the basis for a structure both delightful and usable, stable but almost erotic in its waving surfaces. An undulating fabric of wood slats, it formed...
...developer partner Brown. They were able to convince him that if they took the design in any novel directions?which they would do?those wouldn't be the kind that turn off potential buyers. "The developer started to trust us," says Pasquarelli. "It allowed us the creative freedom to build a building like that...
...newspaper. But companies can get something in return for giving them music. Advertising-supported free music services such as Last.fm pay the major record companies from ad revenue; in return, their users can stream the companies' music for nothing. Such outlets offer record companies the chance to build a relationship with younger fans in the hope those users will later migrate to more lucrative products such as music dvds. Cell-phone users can also expect to get months of free access to a catalogue of songs. Nokia will launch its Comes With Music service later this year, reimbursing artists...
...Fortunately, the ability to build emotional connections also can be used constructively. Equipping military officers with skills of affiliation has become just as important as equipping them with armored vehicles and machine guns. A single checkpoint guard who treats an important local Iraqi leader poorly may turn him from a friend of the U.S. to an enemy, thus instigating a chain of reduced support for an American presence...
...Ghostlaw, from Tolland, Conn., who on a recent Saturday had rushed to see Stonehenge on his first day in England. "It's surprising there is traffic so close to such an historic site." The situation may soon get even worse: Last month, supermarket chain Tesco revealed plans to build a 280,000-square-foot warehouse 20 miles to east, which could mean scores more trucks a day rumbling past...