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By some accounts the world’s information is doubling every two years. This impressive if unprovable fact has got many people wondering: what to do with it?

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Kicked A Building Lately?
That question, the title of the 1976 collection of Ada Louise Huxtable’s work for the New York Times, embodies her approach to criticism.

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Having Fun at the Museum
Blocks, rocket ships, playgrounds and balls: the hidden meaning of playthings at the Museum of Modern Art.

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Top Down Nature
An overview of Bordeaux 55,000: a project to explore ‘how best to transform 55,000 hectares (136,000 acres) into natural areas’.

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The Built Villain
A Dallas condo dispute considered as a monster movie, starring a built villain.
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