Word: rebirths
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...Freedom Tower. (That was supposed to be Daniel Libeskind, but that's another story.) "Like jazz, the skyscraper is a true American invention," says Childs. "Yet America is no longer a leader in the technology of high-rise buildings." He wants the building not only to symbolize rebirth at the Trade Center site but also to demonstrate that American thinking and construction can compare with the best new examples in Europe, Asia and elsewhere...
...Freedom Tower. (That was supposed to be Daniel Libeskind, but that's another story.) "Like jazz, the skyscraper is a true American invention," says Childs. "Yet America is no longer a leader in the technology of high-rise buildings." He wants the building not only to symbolize rebirth at the Trade Center site but also to demonstrate that American thinking and construction can compare with the best new examples in Europe, Asia and elsewhere. Probably the most ingenious thing about the Freedom Tower is how it manages to lay claim to being the tallest structure in the world without actually...
...nice. In the '90s it tried to become a cleaned-up destination for families. But last year it decided to embrace its old-time illicit allure--and the free-spending adults that attracts--with an ad campaign touting the slogan "What happens here stays here." The city's rebirth as a racy entertainment locale couldn't have been better timed. "CSI really helped Las Vegas get on the map as an attractive town," says Las Vegas journalist Lonn Friend. "It's photographed in a really erotic way. The underlying ethos of this town is erotica...
...Xinjiang province, shows one of the earliest known Chinese depictions of hell and is the exhibit's best example of the evolution of Buddhism along the Silk Road. Composed in the 10th century by a Chinese monk, the sutra illustrates the purgatorial journey of the soul from death to rebirth in one of seven orders of being, ranging from the highest, bodhisattvas (those who have attained enlightenment), to hungry ghosts or, still worse, those who have been banished to hell. The sutra was one of the first attempts to syncretize the Indian Buddhist philosophy of karmic debt with the traditional...
This special issue of TIME is devoted to design, particularly the influence of the past. Of course one need look no further than iMacs and Ikea furniture to see that good design has been widely available for many years (the March 20, 2000, cover of TIME called the rebirth of design "commodity chic"). But why are creators of fashion, home and industrial design suddenly looking back for inspiration? Maybe the '50s era appeals to Americans because it was the last time we felt truly optimistic. As design guru Murray Moss says, it's the values of that decade that draw...