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“Builders will work with blueprints, and if you see the blueprints and see the specs, you know what the building will look like,” he said. “But if you see a floor-plan, you don’t know anything about the...
Ideally, we should abandon the idea of continents altogether, turning from the familiar, but distorted, Mercator projection to a Dymaxion map. The commonly used Mercator projection developed in 1568 maps the globe on a rectangular, flat surface which stretches vertical distances. Conversely, the Dymaxion map, developed by former Harvard poetry...
As it stands now, Harvard housing leaves quite a bit to be desired. From the barren wasteland of Cabot House to the “quaint” walkthrough triples of Dunster, many students currently preparing for their housing lotteries are faced with less than ideal options. In recent years...
Champagne is known to be expensive, but Veuve Clicquot's Vertical Limit champagne cellar (right) by Porsche Design Studio takes the acquisition of bubbly to new heights. The 6-ft.-tall (1.8 m) Vertical Limit houses 12 magnums of vintage Veuve Clicquot?each behind a hand-soldered door?and costs...
The Marines' troubled vertical-takeoff aircraft saw a 44% rise in program expenditures over 20 years.