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...limitless funding Abu Dhabi can pour into Masdar, however, success is not guaranteed. Some urban-design experts question just how sustainable Masdar City will really be. The settlement is being built miles outside Abu Dhabi, contributing to the energy-intensive sprawl growing throughout the emirate. And while Masdar City promises to use the greenest technologies on the market, that won't make it livable. "It looks a bit like a prison to me," says Steffen Lehmann, an urban-design professor at the University of Newcastle in Australia who spoke at WFES. "It's going to be a 1% token-green...
...like China a "static target" to threaten, a 2007 report said. A smarter option, the study suggests, is to build a Navy of many smaller and simpler ships, which would complicate enemy targeting and give U.S. commanders better intelligence. Nonetheless, the Navy has just begun spending $11 billion to design and build the first in a new class of carriers, the U.S.S. Gerald R. Ford, scheduled to join the fleet...
...latest project from Ken McCulloch, creator of the Malmaison hotel chain, and interior designer Amanda Rosa in collaboration with Farnborough's owners TAG Aviation, Aviator (www.aviatorfarnborough.co.uk) is a spectacular contemporary building. Incorporating dramatic curves of aluminum, its design was inspired by the shape of an airplane propeller, with 169 guestrooms along its sinuous, elongated twin wings. (See 10 things to do in London...
...night's biggest laughs), honored the late Heath Ledger's turn as The Joker in The Dark Knight with a Supporting Actor award, crowned WALL-E best Animated Film and applauded The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with a few of the less sexy awards for production design and make up. (See pictures of the rise, fall and rise again of Mickey Rourke...
...curriculum, Faust said that her goal is to offer at least five General Education courses and five freshman seminars next year that involve arts practice. The History of Art and Architecture concentration is planning a new track for students interested in architecture, with courses on design as well as the theory and practice of urban planning.She also said that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences will begin to explore an undergraduate concentration in the dramatic arts and that the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences will look into how a graduate Master of Fine Arts programs might be created...