Richardson, which returned this year after an eight-year hiatus, is the glossy pet project of the British stylist Andrew Richardson and features porn stars like Jenna Jameson and Sasha Grey alongside avant-garde artists like Carolee Schneemann and Valie Export.
But software matters: and development is not only about glossy new projects.
The elder Mr. Rogers designed the cube with Tonkin Liu, a British firm known for glossy, minimalist projects like House 1A, a private residence in London made of stacked white boxes on either side of a reflecting pool.
These are the people who are not even remotely included in any of these colossal and glossy development projects, and probably do not even realize the burden on their tax money.
During the show, we see images of his basketball in a tank, the blue balloon dog, and other glossy works projected in between the host and his esteemed guest.
He shot the documentary three years ago, and unlike my glossy films, his project is all about getting under the veneer.
With his good looks and glossy charisma, Mr. Ford projected an urgency that seemed to jibe, for better or worse, with a culture increasingly besotted with celebrity, affluence and what Nicole Kidman was wearing to the next premiere.
In ABP's new glossy brochure announcing the project, Mayor Boris Johnson promises the project will be both "a beacon for eastern investors," creating tens of thousands of jobs, and a revival of London's waterways, "the throbbing arteries of UK trade and commerce".
In Barcelona, a city that has long prized the new and the glossy, Ms. Scholtus's project amounts to a countercultural effort.
"More work went into it than you would figure from their glossy brochures," says Robert Briggs, project manager at Whirlpool.
