Word: parasol
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...geometry books. Thanks to a combination of insistent forward thinking by architects and ever more ingenious computer-design software, buildings that once would have been no more than architecture-student fantasies are being green-lighted every year as real-world construction projects. And one of the newest, the Metropol Parasol, is a sign that those forces are carrying buildings to a place where the word building may not be up to the job of describing what they will become...
...solid structure can be a thought balloon. What Mayer, 42, proposed was a series of six voluptuous forms made of high-strength laminated wood that would rise above the plaza like massive mushrooms--or shade trees. Or maybe they're umbrellas. Whatever you think they look like, the Metropol Parasol, as they are officially called, refuses to be one thing--or to serve one purpose. With a café layered into their upper reaches and walkways laid across their tops, the forms provide a canopy, a promenade and a swashbuckling sculptural fantasy...
...success--and with profit margins of 60%--the firm went public on the London Stock Exchange this summer. The June 27 IPO, which valued PartyPoker at $10 billion, was Britain's biggest this year. Bhargava shared the pot with two other reclusive co-owners: a Net pornographer named Ruth Parasol, who switched from carnality to cards in the late 1990s, and Anurag Dikshit, an Indian software whiz whom Bhargava met when both were students at the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi. They are not three of a kind, but they did cash out about one-fifth of the company...
...concerns about their legality in the U.S. Should the DOJ decide to crack down, the gaming firms, at least, have an exit. PartyGaming's prospectus takes pains to point out that the company has no tangible assets or physical presence in the U.S. Indeed, one reason co-founder Parasol plays no official role at the firm other than shareholder and keeps a very low public profile--she refuses all interview requests--is that as a U.S. citizen, she's potentially at risk and doesn't want to harm the company, according to lawyers who know...
...worked at Bank of America and British Gas before heading to Mexico for a change of scenery. On a whim, he e-mailed his former college friend Dikshit, who, it turned out, had just set up a software company and was trying to develop a gaming start-up for Parasol, a lawyer by training. Parasol's history has filled the pages of British tabloid newspapers this year largely because of her involvement in online pornography and her investment in a company that made adult videos--activities that, ironically, have fewer legal encumbrances than gambling. But by the time she joined...