Although it is difficult to estimate, because it has never been done before, the design, creation, validation, and deployment of the software likely would necessitate six to ten Apple engineers and employees dedicating a very substantial portion of their time for a minimum of two weeks, and likely as many as four weeks.
Official documents obtained by the Architects' Journal under freedom of information laws and seen by the Guardian also show a series of meetings between Transport for London (TfL) and the studio of designer Thomas Heatherwick before the design competition, which he went on to win.
Johnson's office insisted the documents did not show he had unduly favoured any firms before the design competition.
They realised that they needed to cater for the visually impaired; who were consulted before the design stage.
However, a TfL briefing document from December 2012, a few months before the design contest, appears to show Johnson explicitly backing Heatherwick's proposal.
For their presentation before the design jury, the Obra architects wore custom-made black-and-white T-shirts with the P.S. 1-MoMA logo.
These days Mr. Jurowski will do opera only at Glyndebourne and select houses where he can participate in the creative process even before the design process has begun.
As reported by CNNMoney, buyers of the Sergio place their commitment to buying the finishing product before the design has even been finalised.
A former architectural director of the Deutscher Werkbund and the last director of the Bauhaus before the design school was forced to close in 1933, Mies had gone on to teach and shape his radical new architecture in America.
Other documents show three meetings between Heatherwick staff and Peter Hendy, the then head of TfL, including a visit to the Emirates-sponsored cable car above the Thames for Lumley and Heatherwick the month before the design competition began.
It wasn't much used before the design historian Bevis Hillier published his delightful book Art Deco of the 20s and 30s in 1968, defining a style that had more usually been known as moderne, modernistic and jazz modern.
