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Now start-ups such as Ariba and Commerce One--both of which just enjoyed successful IPOs--are launching "vertical marketplaces": bulletin-board and auction-oriented sites that render intra-industry transactions faster, cheaper and smarter by gathering buyers and sellers into one virtual locale. There's Metalsite.com for steel products...
Some students try to pretend Harvard is just like every other college by calling the entryways "vertical hallways." This is deceptive logic, though, since climbing stairs to the fifth floor of Matthews is significantly tougher than gliding effortlessly down a normal dorm hall.
Norfleet echoes the vertical elements used in "The Expectation" in "My Tribe Is Better Than Your Tribe," a battle scene between two rival gangs of beetles. The beetles are all brandishing long spears with red and black tips, making the composition reminiscent of Paolo Uccello's "Battle of San Romano...
Foster, like his former partner Richard Rogers (who has a peerage, but no Pritzker as yet), is a pivotal figure in British architecture. But his buildings have risen all over the world, from Germany to China, and at present his practice employs some 500 people. His influence on the profession...
It's almost ironic that Hadid's design for Cincinnati should have the best chance of all her work of being built. The site is quite vertical, and Hadid's architecture is usually characterized by exaggerated horizontal plinths and floating fractured wedges. Her fondness for the stretch is expressed in...