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Making Do
To ease congestion on streets overflowing with homeless families and street vendors, elevated skywalks are going up everywhere in Mumbai: wsj.com/
article/SB10001424052748703837004575013193075912272.html.
The first of these, a 20-foot-high, mile-long, yellow steel footbridge, has become known as “the yellow caterpillar.” The city is planning to recover most of the cost of the 50 skywalks by selling advertising space on them. Residents around the caterpillar tell journalists it has become a hot spot for college kids and young lovers seeking privacy. As a result, police supervision is being reinforced:
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Love-birds-are-taking-a-skywalk/articleshow/5798948.cms.

Small Wonder
Le Dauphin, a restaurant in Paris designed by Rem Koolhaas and an associate from OMA, is a favorite of Le Fooding, a new culinary movement that bills itself as an antidote to rigid, old-fashioned haute cuisine: www.lefooding.com/le-gout-de-l-epoque. With gourmet picnics and lively reviews, Le Fooding advocates a playful approach to gastronomy—superficial, too, its detractors claim. They mock the site’s celebrity obsession: Who cares where Catherine Deneuve and Karl Lagerfeld like to eat in Paris? This fall, the group gave Le Dauphin an award for best interior design before the place had even opened. For many bloggers, this was more proof that the editors are just media-hungry hipsters. “Another Fooding imposture,” one concluded.

The Art of the Fold”
“Buy to hang on wall, do not wear!” wrote a commenter on Dezeen after seeing Issey Miyake’s new 132 5. collection of computer-engineered origami-style garb (www.dezeen.com/2010/10/05/132-5-by-issey-miyake). “Not sexy,” another one concurred. The technological innovation is fascinating, but some of the dresses have asymmetrical shapes protruding everywhere. How flattering could they be on a real, 3-D person? To enjoy the designs without actually having to wear them, you can always go with the In-Ei lamp. (Same innovation but easier to use.)