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Chances are good that during the holiday season, you found yourself holding a glass of champagne. If the festivities were flagging, a question may have crossed your mind: What causes those delightful little bubbles that tickle your nose? In Uncorked: The Science of Champagne (Princeton University Press; 152 pages), Gérard Liger-Belair answers this and other questions that have occupied the wine world since the night French monk Dom Pérignon invented champagne in the late 17th century. Liger-Belair, an associate professor of physical Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise...
...Vienna The late 19th century, neo-Gothic City Hall is the colorfully illuminated backdrop for this 2,000-sq-m rink - one of Europe's largest. Vienna's top DJs and other celebrity entertainers keep skaters spinning to an eclectic playlist, and spectators can look on from the heated glass marquees flanking the rink. Adding a touch of internationalism to the experience, 13 caterers offer visitors a variety of cuisines, from Italian calzonetti to warm, sweet Belgian waffles. Jan. 21-March 7. Adults $7, children $5. tel (43-1) 409 0040; Ice Dream Rathauplatz, Vienna Cityplaza Ice Palace, Hong Kong
...past decade or so has been a time of virtuoso architects, not just Libeskind, Hadid and Isozaki but also Frank Gehry, Santiago Calatrava, Norman Foster, Renzo Piano and many others, all of them working in very different styles but with the common impulse to knock apart the familiar glass-and-steel box and put it back together in unheard of ways...
...couch. Calatrava's Olympic Stadium in Athens, seen by billions on television during last summer's Games, is a voluptuous, low-slung bowl. But in recent years, even these architects have been moving into the vertical mode, taking their mambo wiggles and thunderbolts with them. The square-shouldered glass-and-steel boxes of Modernism are giving way to silhouettes that once seemed inconceivable but are coming soon to a skyline near...
...ways public space can be brought inside a tall building were very much, well, in the air. One of the most talked about skyscrapers of the past year, Norman Foster's 30 St. Mary Axe building in London--better known as "the gherkin" because of its shape--is a glass-enclosed vertical torpedo with sizable interior light wells and gardens scattered throughout its circular floor plates. Those permit each floor to communicate visually with others. "We can compose completely different organizational structures in terms of how you move through a building vertically," says Thom Mayne, of the forward-looking firm...