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Design and Architecture

Architecture and the BIG Idea

A wow factor without waste, SF MOMA's How Wine Became Modern, Facebook's design "hackathon," and engineering to withstand catastrophe.

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By Frances Anderton • Mar 15, 2011 • 29m Listen

Can you have the wow factor without waste? Danish architect Bjarke Ingels thinks you can. Also, Henry Urbach talks about How Wine Became Modern, at SF MOMA, and Bryn Garrett tells us about working on Facebook's design "hackathon." Also, following Japan's 8.9 earthquake, Arup's Santosh Shahi weighs in on what engineering can do to withstand catastrophe.

Banner image: BIG Architects' Waste-to-Energy Plant in Copenhagen

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    Frances Anderton

    architecture critic and author

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