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...more than two weeks, searchers from India, Canada, Ireland, the U.S., Britain and France had combed some 5 sq. mi. of ocean 110 miles southwest of Cork, Ireland, hoping to discover why Air-India Flight 182 had plunged into the North Atlantic on June 23, killing all 329 passengers and crew aboard. The clues were thought to be contained in two small bright orange metal boxes, commonly called "black boxes." One records the voices of the plane's crew; the other collects data about flight conditions. Both boxes are located behind a ceiling panel just forward of the Boeing...
...restrictive than any other ever adopted by an American city. At once radical and conservative, the Downtown Plan will permit only a couple of new towers to be built in the dense center of downtown. It will limit large-scale building citywide to an annual aggregate of 950,000 sq. ft., the equivalent of two or three medium-size office towers a year, and push the locus of that new development southward into a shabbier quarter. Most intriguing are the provisions that will halve the bulk of new buildings and essentially require that every new skyscraper have stepped setbacks, surface...
...plan is not gratuitous Utopian tinkering. There was plenty of provocation. After two drowsy decades when the city escaped the depredations of bargain-basement modernism, growth came all at once. Between 1965 and 1981, office space downtown more than doubled, to 55 million sq. ft. During the past three years alone, an additional 10 million sq. ft. of high-rise offices were finished. The result was flat gray street walls hundreds of feet high, darkness, traffic clots, noise: "Manhattanization," as the locals call...
...Heyri has evolved to embrace the whole gamut of the arts since its reinvention began in 2001. Today, more than 70 artists, musicians, writers and cineasts?including director Park Chan Wook, winner of the Cannes Grand Prix 2004 for his film Old Boy?have settled in the 500,000-sq-m valley, 40 minutes north of Seoul. The community is still a work in progress (60 buildings have been completed and 20 are under construction), but tourists will find plenty to see, including cutting-edge architecture, cinemas, caf?s, galleries and craft shops. More important, it's a blissful change from...
...city's chief building inspector, Thorkild Kjaer. "They don't get it unless they meet the requirements for accessibility. Our aim is to make Arhus a city for all." In Berlin, one new structure looks set to remain difficult for the disabled. The Holocaust memorial - a 19,000-sq-m installation of 2,700 concrete blocks - officially opens on May 10, but wheelchair users will find their visits tricky. Many of the blocks are spaced just 95 cm apart along paths with gradients of up to 25%; many wheelchair users can't navigate the corners, and they and other disabled...