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...kage (coffee and cake). Best of all, because of the plants, Kaffeplantagen is smoke-free - a rarity for Copenhagen. On nearby Faelledvej, the street leading away from Sankt Hans Torv, is Gefährlich, tel: (45) 3524 1324, where the first floor houses an elegant, relaxed restaurant, and the ground level a gallery, a café and a store that sells records and clothes. The venture was dreamed up by graphic designer Rikke Nogel, artist Eva Wandel, and musicians Sebastian Christensen and Konrad Jahn (the latter is a DJ at the club that commandeers the ground floor at weekends...
...desert stretches out in front of her, the ground turning pink in the sunlight and the distant mountains a dark shade of blue. The desert doesn't need much to survive--a little moisture, not too much disturbance, a little respect from humans. Then it too can survive...
...could have a generation capaciy of 12,000 MW of electricity (it currently has a production capacity of 700 MW) and exporting it to energy-hungry neighbors like Thailand and China, generating billions of dollars in revenue. "We can be like Kuwait," he says. "Kuwait pumps oil from the ground. In Laos, we are selling power made of the water from the heavens...
Twenty kilometers outside the city of Nagoya in central Japan, on ground that was the Aichi Youth Park, a glittering futurescape has risen at the site of the 2005 World Exposition. Visitors at the expo's Mitsui-Toshiba pavilion are taken on a multimedia journey through outer space that speculates on the feasibility of travel to distant reaches of the universe. At the Japan pavilion, saltwater red snapper and freshwater carp live side by side in the same pool-a marvel accomplished by infusing the tank with "oxygenated nanobubbles." Throughout the 173-hectare grounds, more than 25 robots...
...entry onto the world stage-the man who, more than any other, defined the nation's architectural identity in the last half of the 20th century. The University of Tokyo-trained Tange rocketed to fame with his 1949 design for the Peace Memorial Park at Hiroshima's ground zero, the concrete museum, arched cenotaph and mammoth public square of which managed to be arresting without quite being beautiful, distinctive without quite being iconic. His later commissions embodied Japan's re-emergence as an increasingly confident economic power: the sweeping National Gymnasium Complex for the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games...