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...XL Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas and Canadian graphic designer Bruce Mau collaborated to create this definitive anti-coffee-table book, an eccentric and exhaustive assemblage of Koolhaas' building designs, jottings and musings. It even has pages of charts showing how his practice has fared over the years. It was the first book ever to have a launch party at New York City's Museum of Modern Art. And no wonder. Squat, garishly silver and with photos that look more like they were taken for a home photo album than an architectural manifesto, it's designed to be dipped into, flicked...
...February, around the time negotiations for the MCA deal were winding up, Koolhaas released his second book, a stubby, curious tome called S,M,L,XL, after the four sizes that Koolhaas projects come in. A dense, not always coherent conglomeration of photos, plans, essays, fiction, cartoons and alphabetized ephemera, it's the ultimate coffee-table book for a generation raised on both MTV and Derrida...
...While XL projects continue to be Koolhaas' specialty, one of the commissions he's most excited about at the moment is another house in France, this one for a client who uses a wheelchair. An orgy of open-endedness, the house is designed around a huge hydraulic platform that interlocks with and completes the different floors as the client moves up and down the house. "And of course," says Koolhaas, salivating at the thought, "the movement changes the architecture." At last, the machine is a house for living...
...wind was blowing hard and it was raining the night that Houston bureau chief Richard Woodbury arrived at Cedar Point park in Sandusky, Ohio, for a test spin in the Magnum XL-200, the world's highest (205 ft.) and fastest (72 m.p.h.) roller coaster. Since the weather was expected to worsen, park officials insisted that they crank up Magnum for a ride right away. "Suddenly the gigantic structure was ablaze with lights," recalls Woodbury. "There was no way to argue, and so, as the wind whipped off Lake Erie, I was harnessed into the front seat of a soaking...
...more aggressive. Last month Marion Merrell Dow launched a major campaign for the allergy medication Seldane, pitching the drug by name for the first time. Other prescription drugs that have appeared in name-brand ads in the past year include Rogaine, Upjohn's antibaldness medication, and Procardia XL, a heart drug from Pfizer...