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Architecture

WIRED Rave Awards for Cameron Sinclair, Peter Diamandis, Saul Griffith …

TEDPrize winner Cameron Sinclair is having a very good year. Fresh on the heels of both the TEDPrize and the RISD/Target Emerging Designer A...

May 16, 2006
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Bono becomes newspaper editor for a day

The cover of today’s UK Independent is pure genius. They made TED Prize winner Bono guest editor for the day. His front page lead head...

May 16, 2006
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Design Like You Give a Damn

TED Prize winner Cameron Sinclair has a new book coming out – an encyclopedia of sorts that showcases global projects in which design ...

May 15, 2006
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Architecture

Joshua Prince-Ramus splits with Rem Koolhaas

At TED2006, architect Joshua Prince-Ramus held our rapt attention as he deconstructed the process of building the Seattle Library, peeling b...

May 15, 2006
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Remarkable Punditry from the BBC

My old friend Guy Kewney gave a bizarre interview on the BBC this past week, offering a surprisingly rambling commentary on the Beatles/Appl...

May 14, 2006
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Very Monty Python

This posting has absolutely no purpose… except to confess that this made me laugh. A lot.

May 11, 2006
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Jennifer Lin on Oprah

Not being a regular viewer of Oprah, I somehow missed this a couple weeks’ back. An appearance by the remarkable pianist Jennifer Lin....

May 9, 2006
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Bonds to fund a free press? You heard it first at TED …

Last summer at TEDGlobal, Sasa Vucinic explained in quiet tones his maverick idea: He wanted to sell “free-press bonds.”. &#8220...

May 4, 2006
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The "TIME 100" names names

This week, TIME Magazine puts their annual stake in the ground, naming the 100 most influential people of the moment. As usual, a number of ...

May 1, 2006
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