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...Rashid, in particular, scorns architects who return constantly to the same design language. "Architecture is much more complex than a formal statement or a symbolic gesture," he says in Asymptote's book-cum-manifesto, Flux. "What we are most focused on is building inspired worlds, be they domestic, institutional, urban or digital." And in a world where boundaries are blurring, we might need all four at once...
...momentum appears to be behind the yes camp, which has picked up a substantial seven percentage points in the last week. The poll reveals a surprising pattern of opinion: men in private-sector jobs tend to favor the euro, while women in public-sector jobs are opposed. Urban voters are more likely to favor the euro - Stockholm overwhelmingly supports the yes camp - while people in small towns and rural areas are against. The campaign has even divided the government, with Prime Minister Göran Persson leading the charge in favor of the euro, while five of the 19 ministers...
...problem--one that all armies have faced when confronting guerrilla forces--is that search-and-destroy missions in urban areas run the risk of losing local hearts and minds, which is the last thing the U.S. needs in Iraq. U.S. officials may say, in the words of one White House aide, "We're more than happy to have the [2004 presidential] election become a debate on whether or not it was the right decision to go to war in Iraq," but an endless drip of American casualties might knock the edge off that bluster. And such an outcome is possible...
...misread the Dean voter. We are not all young, white, upper-middle-class, suburban, East Coast--educated liberals. Some of us--like me--are black, middle-age, urban and politically pragmatic. We understand that Dean is not the flaming leftist some say he is. We support him because he did not cynically back President Bush's Iraq-war gambit. Dean speaks out for what he believes; he's willing to tackle difficult problems and try innovative approaches to solving them. He's not perfect, he has his rough edges, and we supporters may not agree with him on some issues...
...place that put Adjaye on the map was the so-called Elektra house, built for a pair of conceptual artists in the Whitechapel neighborhood that Jack the Ripper once prowled. It's plain at first sight that this is no cozy cottage. It's more like an urban battlement, a place that turns its face from what is mostly an unsightly street. It has no windows on the street side, where it presents instead a solid wall of resin-treated wood that has weathered over time to resemble rusted steel plate...