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...scientist to build a freezer that won't contribute to global warming, the result was like a frat-house experiment gone right. The apparatus uses sound waves to compress and expand helium, which in turn chills a liquid cooling agent--in this case, vodka. Bizarre, but it works: the stainless-steel canister was used last April to cool pints of Cherry Garcia and Chunky Monkey at a New York City scoop shop...
...even if you've got only a short window between meetings. The newest attraction for Chicagoans--and your first stop--is "the Bean": a 66-ft.-long, 110-ton quicksilver blob in Millennium Park, the new $475 million addition to the city's famous museum row. The reflective stainless-steel sculpture (which its British creator, Anish Kapoor, calls Cloud Gate) distorts North Michigan Avenue like a fun-house mirror. Weather permitting, you can check out architect Frank Gehry's dynamic bandshell at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion. (If you need to check email, the north and south ends of the park...
...Dartboard heard the diesel rumbling of a shuttle in the shadows nearby, and as it rounded the corner, he spotted a stainless steel miracle—a bike rack, gleaming under the streetlights, affixed to the grill of the nighttime savior. He approached it eagerly, and spotted instructions attached. Pull, drop, heave, slip, stretch, and release. Done. Fifteen seconds later, Dartboard was sitting in the front seat of the shuttle, admiring his handiwork perched on the other side of the windshield...
...superlative example of an architect who has stopped worrying about meaning. His buildings are sculptural and spectacular, meant to be experienced rather than interpreted. Built in the style that has by now made Gehry famous, the Disney Hall resembles a huge waterfall of dramatically arching and soaring stainless steel forms, each cascading over and into and through the others. I would be the first to admit that the building was both spectacular and titillating; walking around and through it felt like riding on the most beautiful roller coaster ever built. But as exhilarating as my immediate experience of the building...
This is especially clear at the Canadian-U.S. border, where a gaudy monstrosity has replaced the modest Cape-Cod house that used to serve as the checkpoint for travelers headed north into Canada. I pass under the stainless steel bridge and glance into the reflection-coated windows, and wonder if the security guards behind the bulletproof glass will pick me out as a threatening figure and detain me for further questioning. Since 9-11, nothing is as straightforward for travelers. Even in rural Vermont, the very architecture of the patrol station is there to tell Americans that constant vigilance...