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...SHIGERU OMI, WHO regional director, after lifting the SARS travel warning to Beijing on June...
...record 600,000 preorders. Fans of 1998's Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time--hailed by many as the greatest console game ever--will not be disappointed. Set centuries after Ocarina, Wind Waker takes the form of a pirate-ship quest across an oceanic world. Legendary designer Shigeru Miyamoto (Mario Bros., Donkey Kong) has packed the adventure with echoes of and improvements on its predecessors' puzzles. The cartoon-like graphics are pure eye candy--sumptuously smooth and lovingly detailed. (Check out the heat haze from flames or your hero's wet footprints as he crawls...
PAPER, WOOD AND BAMBOO. Weakness can also be a strength—or so Shigeru Ban would say. This innovative Japanese architect, whose philosophy is that beauty should be available to the masses, has built entire homes, pavilions and churches (some of them permanent), using little more than cardboard tubes. Many of Ban’s paper-based masterpieces have been used in disaster relief, such as U.N. refugee shelters in Turkey and Rwanda and community houses in Kobe after the 1995 earthquake. This exhibit features 16 of Ban’s projects documented through architectural and engineering drawings, images...
...finalists, the firm of Daniel Libeskind and the THINK team, led by Frederic Schwartz, Rafael Viñoly, Ken Smith and Shigeru Ban, were chosen, amid calls for a novel structure that would be a rejoinder, a memorial, a monument—a symbol and functional buildings and planning strategy. It is far from clear whether either of these proposals will ever be realized; what is apparent is that any plan must reckon with complex, and sometimes contradictory, public feelings about appropriate future uses of the site...
...also in its use of materials, clean, simple lines and geometric shapes, all of which allows for an intricate interplay between space and light. Now his design influence has come to Harvard in the form of “Paper, Wood & Bamboo: Structural Innovation in the Work of Shigeru Ban,” an exhibit on display at the Harvard Design School’s Gund Hall, G gallery through March...