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Antoine Predock, Architect Who Channeled the Southwest, Dies at 87
His striking, acclaimed structures evoked the desert. But for major projects elsewhere in the world, he adopted the same principle: connecting buildings to their settings.
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‘An Incoherent Riot’: Why London’s Skyline Looks So Weird
London has a jarring profusion of odd skyscrapers with funny names or nicknames. There are the Shard and the Scalpel, which are pretty elegant. The (mostly) well-liked Gherkin, which looks like a glass pickle. The wedge-shaped Cheese Grater. And the ...
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Billionaire-Built Cities Would Be Better Than Nothing
A company backed by Silicon Valley’s most powerful investors, including the LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and the venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, assembled a land empire outside San Francisco and announced a bold vision to build a brand-new ...
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The OpenAI Coup Is Great for Microsoft. What Does It Mean for Us?
There was the coup that hit the headlines: the OpenAI board’s abrupt ousting of its co-founder and chief executive, Sam Altman. Now we are on the verge of a second, even more critical coup, one that cements control of one of the most powerful and ...
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New York City May Pay You to Build a ‘Granny Flat’ in Your Backyard
Fifteen New Yorkers living in single-family homes could get up to nearly $400,000 to build an extra apartment on their properties.
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US
California Slams San Francisco for ‘Egregious’ Barriers to Housing Construction
The city adopted a state-approved plan in January to build 82,000 new housing units in eight years. It’s already failing.
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Science
Fossil Reveals Ancient Seafloor Communities
Remnants of decaying tiny animals were colonized by others in an interspecies interaction dating back 480 million years.
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News
Vermont Utility Plans to End Outages by Giving Customers Batteries
Green Mountain Power is asking state regulators to let it buy batteries it will install at customers’ homes, saying doing so will be cheaper than putting up more power lines.
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US
Biden, the Border, and Why a New Wall Is Going Up
The Biden administration said on Thursday that it would build up to 20 miles of border barriers authorized during the Trump administration in Texas’s Rio Grande Valley. The decision is a confusing one. As a candidate, President Biden pledged never to ...
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Can Britain Boom and Bloom at Once?
“I feel somehow / That it isn’t going to last,” Philip Larkin wrote in “Going, Going,” his lament for the English countryside — that development would soon cover everything green and pleasant on his isle: Larkin wrote these words in 1972. On the ...
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