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Ive manages newness. He helps balance the need to make technological innovations feel approachable, so that they reach a mass market—Choo Choo—with the requirement that they not be ugly and infantile. Apple has made missteps, but the company’s great design secret may be avoiding insult. Antonelli, of MoMA, described Apple’s design thoughtfulness as “a sign of respect,” and added, “Elegance in objects is everybody’s right, and it shouldn’t cost more than ugliness.”

In the Arthurian legend, the wizard Merlin put the sword in the stone. Mr. Koolhaas must be Merlin, I suppose. That makes Miuccia Prada, the Lady of the Lake.

MILAN — The lambent new tower of art galleries Rem Koolhaas and his Rotterdam-based firm, OMA, have designed for the Prada Foundation is a chameleon.

“People are also putting in HVAC systems that can be closed off when they don’t want to use them. When it’s hot out and you’re working on your car, you can open it up and have your air conditioning. That makes it a more usable space … not just a storage space for cars,” he said.

"Initially, the entire Houston real estate industry froze. Nobody was ready to buy or sell anything for weeks. Those who flooded faced a long haul ahead, with all the attendant anguish and tough decisions about their path forward. Meanwhile, buyers were nervous, and communities people had been eager to buy into previously were suddenly less appealing."

Im, Y., Dietz, C., Lee, S. S. & Joshi, Y. Flower-Like CuO Nanostructures for Enhanced Boiling. Nanoscale and Microscale Thermophysical Engineering 16, 145–153 (2012).

“They go to their basements and attics to maximize usable square footage. But that’s usually at the expense of something, and that something is usually storage.

Front and center are the two high-definition 10-inch touchscreens which make up the new InControl Touch Pro Duo infotainment system1. The thin capacitive polycarbonate precisely follows the subtle curvature of the instrument panel for seamless, perfectly flush surface integration. Incorporating the Terrain Response® and Terrain Response® 2 controls into Touch Pro Duo eliminates the traditional dial and hard buttons, creating extra space in the center console and further emphasizing the visually-reductive approach that drives every aspect of the vehicle’s design1.

While I tried to stick with Xiaomi’s offerings for the purposes of this review, it became simply impossible to do so when, for example, I needed to access the photos synced to my Google account. You may not be able to delete Xiaomi’s apps, but if you are already invested in Google’s ecosystem, it’s also not particularly difficult to just keep on doing what you’re doing. You’ll just have to go through a ton of clicks and confirmations to change your defaults; boy, Xiaomi really doesn’t want you to change those.

The collection is reproduced at the start of House Tour: Views of the Unfurnished Interior (Park Books, 2018).

Amazingly, the material that keeps beer and body parts cold is also an excellent protective material for the human head. Of course, the EPS used in helmets is different from the white foamy-looking stuff used to chill your six-pack, but the principle is generally the same.

In the United States, Land Rover is offering the Velar with three engines, and they all hook up to an eight-speed automatic. Starting at $50,895 (after $995 destination for all models), buyers can get the base model with a 2.0-liter turbocharged four-cylinder producing 247 horsepower (184 kilowatts). The crossover with a 2.0-liter turbocharged diesel engine with 180 hp (134 kW) begins at $57,195. The top versions use a 3.0-liter supercharged V6 with 380 hp (283 kW), and pricing opens at $65,195. S, SE, and HSE trims add extra amenities to these powertrains, too.