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“It is kind of as if you took all the biggest skyscrapers in the U.S. and like jam-packed [them] into one square block.” Fitts says. “Every building that is going up is taller than the next, and they are all...
But the imposing skyscrapers were just one of the many aspects of Shanghai that impressed Fitts when she visited China last summer for an internship.
In the introduction of his latest book, “The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right,” Atul A. Gawande writes about the double-edged nature of knowledge: it “has both saved and burdened us,” he states. Gawande goes on...
He was the master of the tall order. Bruce Graham, who died March 6 at 84, designed two of the biggest, most famous and most starkly beautiful buildings in the world, both for Chicago, where he spent almost his entire career at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. In 1970 the 100-story...
While its increasingly affluent residents may wish to believe they have destiny in their grasp, Santiago - the economic jewel of South America - is perched on a stretch of earth that violently resists all efforts to tame it. Situated along the ring of fire, a hotbed of seismic activity that encircles...