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Architecture can go beyond buildings -- and embrace branding, community, and teamwork. by Jena McGregor Joshua Prince-Ramus was the partner-in-charge of the celebrated Seattle Central Library and heads up the New York ...READ»

The 5th Annual Fast 50

The 5th Annual Fast 50 15. Monumentalists Roisin Heneghan and Shih-Fu Peng heneghan.peng Previous | Next The competition to build the Grand Museum of Egypt in Giza was the largest architectural contest in history, ...READ»

The 5th Annual Fast 50

The 5th Annual Fast 50 22. Clean City Peter Head Arup Previous | Next What looks like a sketch for a sunny Florida retirement community is actually a very early prototype of a plan to turn Dongtan, China, into the ...READ»

The 5th Annual Fast 50

The 5th Annual Fast 50 31. Open-Source DNA George Church Personal Genome Project Previous | Next Unraveling the first human genome took 13 years and $3 billion. Within the next five years, scientists aim to have ...READ»

The 5th Annual Fast 50

The 5th Annual Fast 50 39. Disaster Master Steve Adams Strategic National Stockpile Previous | Next "The worst-case scenarios are terrible and horrible, and many people would die." Welcome to the world of Steve Adams, ...READ»

The 5th Annual Fast 50

The 5th Annual Fast 50 27. (Drug) Delivery Man Robert Langer MIT Previous | Next The idea for a "pharmacy on a chip" came to Robert Langer one evening 10 years ago. What if you implanted an electronic device, he ...READ»

The 5th Annual Fast 50

The 5th Annual Fast 50 43. Psychotech Hunter Hoffman University of Washington Previous | Next Kids at Seattle's Harborview Burn Center have found help in a strange new place: SnowWorld, a virtual reality where they ...READ»

The 5th Annual Fast 50

The 5th Annual Fast 50 29. Chairvoyant Patricia Urquiola Furniture designer Previous | Next Little-known until a few years ago, the Spanish-born Patricia Urquiola was the buzz of the Milan Furniture Fair in 2004. Then ...READ»

The 5th Annual Fast 50

The 5th Annual Fast 50 12. Blue-Hair University Rakesh Khurana, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, and Nitin Nohria Harvard Business School Previous | Next Rakesh Khurana, a 38-year-old associate professor at Harvard Business ...READ»

The 5th Annual Fast 50

The 5th Annual Fast 50 7. Mass Marketer Joe Duffy Duffy & Partners Previous | Next With a population of more than 1.3 billion, China is the King Kong of global markets--a fact not lost on the West's giant ...READ»

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