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WHAT WILL BE READY VENUES: The I.O.C. says all 35 Olympic sporting venues will be completed by the end of June. MARATHON ROUTE: Deadlines are tight, but organizers insist widening of the 42-km route from Marathon to Athens will be ready by early July. TRANSPORT: Two new railway links should be running by July. NEW ROADS: Gridlocked Athens will get 210 km of upgraded roads and highways. SECURITY: The command-and-control center, consisting of 67 operational hubs, is complete. WHAT WON'T BE READY ROOFLESS: The roof over the Aquatic Center has been scrapped, exposing competitors to searing...
...summer is Koolhaas' second Prada store, in Beverly Hills, Calif. And last September saw the debut of his McCormick Tribune Campus Center at Chicago's Illinois Institute of Technology. Another instant icon, it's topped by a massive corrugated-steel tube intended both to muffle the noise of the railway line that passes overhead and to encourage another sound--wow!--from anybody passing...
...understand that right away at his new student center at the Illinois Institute, a campus designed and once headed by none other than Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Thanks to the sleeve for the railway that sits atop the center's V-shaped roof, it has an aggressively awkward exterior, like a shed being crushed by a giant auto muffler. Inside it's a kind of bright angular cyclotron designed for the purpose of accelerating human fusion. By encouraging students to literally cross paths at every turn, it offers itself as a substitute for the city that once bordered closely...
...Indian city of Surat, 250 kilometers north of Bombay, has the look of an industrial inferno. Textile mills belch smoke into Surat's discolored sky, mill workers live in dismal slums and homeless men nap alongside dogs on the railway-station floor. In 1994, the city achieved a moment of international fame when doctors announced pneumonic plague had resurfaced in its winding alleys. Nestled amid Surat's grime, however, is one of India's most extraordinary success stories. Whether you live in the U.S. or Japan, if you buy an engagement ring this year, there's a good chance...
...have begun redeveloping the city, and visitors are starting to come back. One big success is Newtown, long the city's theater district and now full of restaurants and other attractions. Access to the area is easier with the opening of the Nelson Mandela Bridge over a number of railway tracks. The mainstay of the district remains Market Theatre, which defied apartheid laws against mixed audiences long before democracy arrived. A police report in 1977 noted with distaste that "the White, Indian, Coloured and Bantu spectators watch the same performances and pay the same ticket price." These days, patrons...