The Qatari capital’s “Musheireb [project] learns from traditional urban models and uses modern architecture a world away from the dim glass towers of the business district. … So where Abu Dhabi apes a broad Manhattan-style city grid, Doha’s Musheireb adopts tight, discontinuous streets and alleys – so that the hot wind which gathers heat as it blows is diverted and coerced into a cooling breeze.”
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Edifice Complex: China Creates Arts Venues Without Arts Programming
The spectacular new Guangzhou Opera House “is the most extreme example. ‘You have the GOH with no [resident] symphony and no opera chorus,’ says one observer. ‘Beijing and the local government pitched in to build the opera house but when it comes to programming the attitude is ‘You mean we have to pay for that too?'”
Porcine Therapy: Pigs Used to Treat Disturbed Patients
Physiotherapist Daan Vermeulen “practices an odd form of physical therapy – he lets senior citizens and children with emotional and behavioral problems feed, groom and dress up pigs as a way of making uninterested patients more receptive to therapy.”