September 2009
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Snow Leopard Combines Minor Improvements, Major...
As the name implies, Snow Leopard appears to add just a little dash of flavor to Apple’s previous operating system, Leopard. But OS X 10.6, as it’s officially known, is paws-down the best Mac OS yet, and it costs a dirt-cheap $30 for those who are already running Leopard.
It also adds significant new features that don’t make much of a difference today, but will in the year to...
Chicago's 2016 Olympics bid threatens Gropius...
Courtesy City of Chicago
Hoping to be selected as the host city for the 2016 Summer Olympics, the City of Chicago is actively planning for new facilities to accommodate the games. Those plans currently threaten a complex of post-World War II buildings on Chicago’s lakefront, the Michael Reese Hospital Campus, largely planned and co-designed by Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius. While the city...
National Library, Bjarke Ingles Group - Copenhagen
From WAN:
Copenhagen architects beat Foster and Hadid with ‘modern and rational’ library
Invited as one of five pre-selected architect led teams, Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) was awarded first prize in an open international design competition which included 19 entrants amongst others Lord Norman Foster and Zaha Hadid.
The new National Library, named after the first President of the...