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 Features John Kormeling To see an animated drawing of this unusual artists/architect's Mobile Fun Ferris Wheel, go to http://www.centraalmuseum.nl/panorama/english/artists/kormeli/korm_f.html Havana Preservation Discover the history and current state of sustainable development in Cuba at www.cosg.supanet.com/gdic.html, the web site of the Group for the Integrated Development of the Capital which runs the Maqueta de la Habana. You can also email the organization for more information at gdic@ceiniai.inf.cu. New Media Spaces Explore the Media Z Lounge of the New Museum for Contemporary Art at www.newmuseum.org as well as the Sky Media Loft and the Login Gateway at Ars Electronica Center's www.aec.at. Visual Feature Spas View more photographs by Jason Oddy, in addition to a biography of the photographer, at www.gallery24nyc.com/JasonOddy. Metropolis Observed For more information about Portland park planning try the park department's web site at http://www.parks.ci.portland.or.us. To view more of Droog's creative designs go to www.droogdesign.nl/index1.html. To learn about Next Architects, the designers of the Droog fences, go to their web site at www.nextarchitects.com. Preview the soon-to-be-released phone-card-phone and other technologies, such as a disposable laptop computer, now in production at www.dtcproducts.com. For another type of disposable phone check out www.ideo.com/studies/telespree.htm. Tour the new pocket park of the Studio Museum at Rogers Marvel Architects' site at www.rogersmarvel.com or view the museum's web site at www.studiomuseuminharlem.org. Discover the history of LA River activism, along with the latest news, at the Friends of the Los Angeles River web site, www.folar.org. Read the Wexner Center's request for proposal at www.fpd.ohio-state.edu/wexner_rfp.htm and then take a tour of the center at www.wexarts.org/ctr/gen/arch.shtml. Find out more about Floating the Apple, the organization Urban Alternatives Design Studio students are designing for, at www.floatingtheapple.org. See what Nigeria's government has to say about its capital city at www.nigeria-government.com/abuja. Perspective Discover the world of dowsing at www.voicenet.com/~eric/dowsing.htm, which includes a wide variety of both pro and anti-dowsing links. If interested, subscribe to the American Society of Dowsers at dowsers.new-hampshire.net/ Enterprise Sign up with Bluebolt Studio for instant connection to interior design manufacturers and specifications at www.bluebolt.com. Far Corner Discover the history of Pragmatism and the works of key thinkers at www.pragmatism.org, then be sure to go to go to www.emory.edu/EDUCATION/mfp/james.html, which includes an infinite number of essays and speeches by William James, as well as photographs and biographies of this important early 20th century philosopher. Reviews Compare exhibitions on workplace environments with the National Building Museum's web site, www.nbm.org/exhibits.new_on_the_job_text and the Museum of Modern Art's web site, www.moma.org/workspheres, which includes images of every piece in the exhibition as well as multiple essays and photos on the subject. |
