Long Tails and Nine Inch Nails

Clay Dillow — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:30:50 -0400

Originally published on March 11th, 2008.

Where the Bridge Has No Name

Clay Dillow — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:22:08 -0500

Dubai, like Las Vegas, is a city of excess in the middle of a desert. But with the ungodly height of the 159-story (and growing) Burj Dubai, the unnatural symmetry of The Palm Jumeirah islands and the unabashed extravagance of the seven-star Burj Al Arab Hotel, Dubai is so steeped in its own impressiveness, so flush with starchitect projects, it makes even Elvis’s "Bright Light City" seem dim by comparison.

Aloha in Antarctica

Clay Dillow — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:42:06 -0500

When the National Science Foundation began a search for a firm to build a new research station in Antarctica, it passed over a handful of Alaska-based companies, turning instead to an architect in a more unorthodox locale. The NSF found its partner in the Aloha state, at Honolulu-based Ferraro Choi and Associates.