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August 12, 2007
San Francisco's Changing Cityscape
Today's San Francisco Chronicle featured a fascinating story on several designs for the proposed Transbay Terminal. Soaring 1,225 feet, the proposed tower will replace the Transamerica Pyramid as the tallest building in San Francisco and will likely influence architecture in the city for the next 30 years. The concept designs range from awe-inspiring (see Skidmore Owings and Merrill's design ) to rather soulless (see Rogers Stirk Harbour's design) -- at least, in my view.
August 1, 2007
Burt Rutan on the Future of Space Flight
Burt Rutan, founder of Scaled Composites and winner of the Ansari X-Price in 2004, presented an inspiring lecture at TED in October of 2006. Recently four workers at Scaled Composites were killed while working on a top-secret suborbital spaceship for Virgin Galactic. This a tragic event and a sobering reminder of the costs of scientific experimentation.
I'm hopeful that this event will be investigated closely so that safety precautions can be developed and that it does not significantly derail efforts to fund these types of initiatives.
