design

A Triumph of Engineering

17 March 2011

With all the hand wringing over the Japanese nuclear power plants, they are missing just what an astounding triumph of engineering this is.
Is it a failure? Yes, yes it is, but it is a graceful failure not a catastrophic failure. The people had ample time to get away, just like the World Trade Towers another [...]

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Critic’s Notebook – In Arabian Desert, a Sustainable City Rises – NYTimes.com

28 September 2010

But his design also reflects the gated-community mentality that has been spreading like a cancer around the globe for decades. Its utopian purity, and its isolation from the life of the real city next door, are grounded in the belief — accepted by most people today, it seems — that the only way to create [...]

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Things Around the Stove

23 September 2010

The stove needs some things around it, like storage for pots & pans and cooking utensils like spatulas and big spoons. While you can certainly store pans in the broiler drawer and pots in the oven, I prefer drawers under or next to the stove.
A regular cabinet works but there is always some pot that [...]

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