The Union Square run may not be the ultimate in quirkiness (try Tompkins Square Park in the East Village) but it is practically designed for spectators.
Having worked in this room several times to provide television commentary for the launches of cosmonauts to the ISS, I have the sense that this is a place designed for spectators; where the choreography of a mission is played out for everyone to see.
The plan is designed to transport spectators and athletes and ease traffic in one of Europe's most congested cities. Accommodating those spectators and athletes is also a pressing issue.
The show is clearly designed to attract spectators, but too much attention can irritate the neighbors.
This spring, Ms. Rowley offered a spectator design, with a strap across the ankle, "but we were just dipping our toes into the style".
Events like kite flying and demonstrations of scuba diving under the ice were designed to lure spectators out in the single-digit temperatures, but perhaps none did so with as much good cheer as the outhouse race.
Two minutes later, after a Texas steal and long dribble, she chased down the stealer, blocked the layup mightily from behind and went flying over an end-court barrier designed to protect spectators from flying shotblockers.
The new director of the Royal Court, Dominic Cooke, also has designs on his spectators: he thinks the denizens of SW1 have spent too much time goggling at the poor, and that they should have a goggle at their well-heeled selves.
Parts of the car went over the safety fencing designed to protect spectators at the startline causing minor injuries to nine people.
Smart Bug, a project from design collective NXUX, allows spectators to come within inches of multiple oversized, digitized insects.The terror!
