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Fast Company April 2009	The Stadium of the Future What will the sporting venue of tomorrow look like? We asked the folks at HOK Sport to draw us a picture.
Wired February 23, 2009 Steven Heller	Design Artwork for a Shrinking Album Cover In the late '80s and '90s, when the CD replaced vinyl as the format of choice, the new 5.5- by 5.5-inch Jewel case was a far less luscious canvas.
This Old House Daniel Akst	Confessions of an Architecture Victim I thought building a new house would be easier than fixing up an old one. I was wrong.
Wired Scott Dadich	Design Under Constraint: How Limits Boost Creativity Designers understand the power of limits. Constraint offers an unparalleled opportunity for growth and innovation.
Wired Terrence Russell	Biggest Little Cities: Models for Urban Planning Michael Chesko is no architect, but he just spent more than 2,000 hours constructing a highly detailed, nearly perfect scale model of midtown Manhattan -- now on exhibit at the New York Skyscraper Museum.
Fast Company March 2009 Ben Popper	Panjiva: A Morningstar for Manufacturing Panjiva brings intelligent search and better information to the fashion industry's hunt for suppliers.
Popular Mechanics January 23, 2009 Harry Sawyers	Green Giant: The New American Home Debuts at the International Builder's Show The New American Home, a show house featured at this week's International Builders' Show in Las Vegas, seems to represent two extremes of American building impulses -- lots of environmental innovation in an oversize package.
Fast Company February 2009 Linda Tischler	Ideo's David Kelley on "Design Thinking" A conversation with David Kelley, founder of the design firm Ideo and the Stanford d.school, who was leading a charmed existence in every way. Then he felt the lump.
Popular Mechanics January 15, 2009 Glenn Reynolds	Clayton's I-House: Prefab Green Homes Get Affordable It looks like a house you'd order from Ikea. It sounds like a house designed by Apple. The I-House just might be the future -- well, one future, anyway -- of the housing market.
Popular Mechanics January 5, 2009 Andrew Moseman	New Earthquake-Proof Alloy Allows Bridges to Bend but Not Break (With Video!) In a recent test simulating the intensity of a magnitude 8 quake, a 100-ft-long model bridge built with the new earthquake-proof material suffered a little surface damage but remained structurally intact.
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