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Carved has been around for a while, but I haven’t had the chance to try one of its cases out until now. I opted for the Mount Bierstadt Inlay option, which features an intricate design on the back in the shape of – you guessed it – a mountain. While the wood is very nicely done, I have mixed feelings about the overall quality of the case.

Salads include the four millet with kodo, foxtail, pearl and sorghum tossed in a guava gondhoraj dressing, arugula, toasted pumpkin seeds and pomegranate, green mango, peanuts and baby radish and roasted beet salad with marinated feta, smoked almonds and honey kasundi vinaigrette.

However, all this rubber does make putting your phone into your pants pocket a bit more difficult, and it may not even fit in smaller pockets. But that’s the trade-off you have to make with a case this protective. Cutouts are all accurate, and the rubber around the fingerprint sensor hole actually makes scanning your fingerprint comfortable. Branding on the exterior is limited to a small ‘Speck’ logo on the top right of the back.

For the rest of us, Nanoleaf Canvas lights are a series of interconnecting square panels with LEDs running through the panels. These squares connect with a set of tabs that insert into every side of the square, so you can assemble the light panels in any pattern you want. As long as all of the panels are connected by one of these special tabs, you’re good to go. The power cord is made from one of these tabs, so you can insert it into any of the panels and power the entire array. Nanoleaf says Canvas supports up to 256 panels right now, but you’d need multiple power cords to drive that many panels. Fortunately, the cord is very easy to hide, so you can set them up basically anywhere.

The next day, I visited Ive in his studio. The table previously covered with a flat cloth was now uncovered: it was a glass-topped Apple Watch display cabinet, accessible to staff from below, via a descending, motorized flap, like the ramp at the rear of a cargo plane. Ive has begun to work with Ahrendts, Apple’s senior vice-president of retail, on a redesign—as yet unannounced—of the Apple Stores. These new spaces will surely become a more natural setting for vitrines filled with gold (and perhaps less welcoming, at least in some corners, to tourists and truants). Apple had not, overnight, become an élite-oriented company—and it would sell seventy-five million iPhones in the final quarter of 2014, many of them in China—but I wondered how rational, and pure of purpose, one can make the design of a V.I.P. area. Ive later told me that he had overheard someone saying, “I’m not going to buy a watch if I can’t stand on carpet.”

A tranquil waterfall and rock garden meanders its way to the vibrant landscaping and peaceful 1.1-acre setting that encompass this exceptional colonial located in North Haven’s highly sought-after Blue Hills area. Owners will enjoy the convenient location on a cul-de-sac, close to major highways with great views of Sleeping Giant.

Acoustical testing by Metropolitan following installation of the ceiling panels validated the choice of treatments. Reverberation time dropped an average of 56% in the eight spaces that were tested, including a 79% drop in one of the classrooms and a 64% drop in one of the studios.

The XPAD version of the L10 addresses the needs of customers who like a hard handle with integrated scanner and programmable buttons. And the XBOOK version turns the L10 tablet into a full-function laptop replacement with its well-matched detachable keyboard and kickstand.

Positioned in a Sports-Command driving position, the front seats of the Velar balance performance-oriented design and support with opulent comfort, and offer up to 20-way adjustment with available heating, cooling and massage functions. Weight-optimized and designed to liberate additional interior space, the seats have also been carefully sculpted for ease of entry and egress to and from the vehicle.

(6)    The Wi-Fi hotspot is intended for passenger use only. InControl features may require an additional subscription with separate terms and conditions.

Motor1 has a team at the Geneva Motor Show, so look here for live photos of the Velar soon. We’re anxious to see whether this coupe crossover looks as good in real life as it does in Land Rover’s promotional images.

If such experiments can enter into the mainstream, however, they first have to be proven in the field. It is here that the Swiss context of this project becomes significant. For Switzerland has a long tradition of supporting Genossenschaften, housing cooperatives that build collective housing, and in return, are granted free land by the state. The Genossenschaften, much like the housing projects of Red Vienna, became prominent after the First World War. In the last ten years, Genossenschaft projects, insulated from the austerity that has constricted developments elsewhere in Europe, and benefitting from Swiss political structures that encourage small, autonomous community organizations, have become test beds of spatial experimentation. Overwhelmingly, these experiments have been carried out within the plan. As Christian Inderbitzen, of Edelaar Mosayebi Inderbitzin architects, told Emma Letizia Jones and Philip Shelley: “The importance of the floor plan—that’s something that needs to be pointed out. The floor plan in a housing project determines the life that can happen, or not happen. It’s crucial.” Until now, in contemporary Swiss architecture, the plan has been the main site of contest, and it is through the plan that the power relations within the house become legible. The plan, it seems, is where power can be deconstructed, and reconstructed. Politics, implicitly, has its truth in the plan. The façade, also true to its name, is all about rhetoric. In the hermeneutics of architectural suspicion, the façade presents myth, and the floorplan its underlying truth. Elevations, ignored in this debate, threaten to disappear. But precisely because elevations are not so hotly pursued, they yield more. The more we look at them, the more that they reveal about our memories, our expectations, about media history, architectural vernaculars, and the future of the discipline.