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OPENED. THE MEMORIAL TO THE MURDERED JEWS OF EUROPE, by German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and Jewish leaders from around the world; in Berlin. The memorial, an undulating 19,000-sq-m field of 2,711 concrete slabs, was designed by American architect Peter Eisenman and cost $35 million to build. Although the idea for a memorial was first mooted by German journalist Lea Rosh in 1988, it took 15 years of debate over the design before construction began in 2003. Parliamentary President Wolfgang Thierse said the monument, which is dedicated to the Holocaust's 6 million Jewish victims...
According to Ellison, the design of the new building leaves open the possibility of converting it to undergraduate use in the future...
...Xbox is large and forbidding, a matte black and poisonous green plastic crate the size of a VCR. Perfect for hard-core gamers, maybe, but if Microsoft wanted to grow its audience, Allard knew the new Xbox had to look kinder and gentler. The goal was a design that was welcoming but not wimpy, that snagged the soccer moms and NASCAR dads and Britney girls--without losing the Halo boys...
Allard's solution was a good example of un-Microsoft thinking. "Guess how you get great design?" he asks. "You don't try to do it with computer scientists from M.I.T. You don't try to do it the conventional way one would think about from a Microsoft point of view." Instead, Allard hired a sculptor from the Rhode Island School of Design and gave him a long leash. The sculptor turned around and hired a dozen extremely expensive boutique design firms to each come up with a design for the new Xbox. He then picked two winners, one from...
...final step in the process has nothing to do with what's inside the Xbox: Microsoft will have to make it cool. In addition to giving it that iPod-esque design, Peter Moore will run a very hip, very un-Microsoft ad campaign featuring quirky hipsters wearing the Xbox logo. Moore just threw the Xbox 360 the equivalent of a movie premiere: a party, broadcast on MTV, with Elijah Wood as host and featuring beyond-trendy rockers the Killers. For the Xbox 360's theme song, Moore licensed an obscure Sex Pistols B-side titled C'mon Everybody, with...