The changes in the zoning rules were based on recommendations by a task force of design and construction professionals enlisted by the city to propose ways to promote energy efficiency and other environmental improvements for buildings.
It is a tour de force of design, a red, black and white pattern of 18 diamonds with rays -- abstract symbols of the sun -- that look alike but are all different.
And the H2 is properly butch, but hardly a tour de force of design.
A few days ago, executives at Bare Escentuals, the company that put mineral powder makeup on the map, unveiled the brand's new advertising campaign-- Be a Forcampaign-- Be--designed to focampaign-- Bes inner beauty, inspiration and humor, not how to look younger.
Delony and his men then joined the "Georgia Legion," a force of artillery, cavalry and infantry designed loosely around a Roman legion and organized by Colonel Cobb, a popular and charismatic leader (in fact, the unit became better known as "Cobb's Legion").
Particularly problematic for policy, these tendencies may serve to blunt the force of design features intended to align incentives.
The bolts that hold them in place were designed to withstand a force of twelve thousand tons.
Alice Winocour's "Disorder" is a tightly wound spring of a movie, a tour de force of sound design and sly editing that implies much more than it shows.
It is a tour de force of narrative design, an autobiography wrought in the vessel of a home, that has been made possible by Charles Holland of FAT, the architect charged with turning Perry's whims into a piece of architecture.
In Warren Lehrer's new book A Life in Books: The Rise and Fall of Bleu Mobley he's created a tour de force of graphic design, illustration and writing.
