The Atlantic has been redesigned:

Here’s my brief review: horrible. The block on the lower right looks like a joke that no one was willing to call a joke, a kind of Sokal Hoax of type design. Ugh.
[via Kottke]

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[photo by Theta444]
From a recent New Yorker article on the elevator:
"Two things make tall buildings possible: the steel frame and the safety elevator. The elevator, underrated and overlooked, is to the city what paper is to reading and gunpowder is to war. Without the elevator, there would be no verticality, [...]

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