Interview with Buckminster Fuller, the world's most inventive architectural engineer, after inspecting three of his most recent revolutionary structures in the outdoor exhibition area of the Museum of Modern Art: an Octet Truss, or structural skeleton for a building; an black-and-white aliminum-and-monel mast constructed on the "tensigrity" principle; a Geodesic Rigid Radome.
However, designing, financing and building these revolutionary structures takes a business and design discipline worthy of Henry Ford.
A revolutionary structure at the time, it was built by Eugenius Birch to feed the fashion for promenading by the sea, and to excite people.
"We believe we have devised a new revolutionary structure for the group that will improve every area of the business," said Hands, who has taken over as EMI chairman.
The Voskresenskiye Vorota, or Resurrection Gates, -- a pre-Revolutionary structure destroyed to clear the way for tanks entering Red Square for Soviet parades, and then restored in the '90s -- includes a tiny chapel that draws a constant stream of pilgrims.
1. Konstantin Melnikov, Rusakov Workers Clubb, Moscow, 1927 Although images of Tatlin's unbuildable Monument circulated round Europe, the first viable post-revolutionary structure to be seen outside the USSR was the young architect Konstantin Melnikov's Soviet Pavilion at the 1925 Paris Expo.
With an aria in a performance of Puccini's Gianni Schicchi, Ms Soroush, 27, became the first woman since the 1979 Islamic Revolution to sing opera for a public audience.This weekend Ms Soroush returned to the stage in Tehran's Vahdat Hall, a grandiose pre-revolutionary structure modelled on the Vienna State Opera, as the female soloist in Carl Orff's cantata Carmina Burana.
In the German uprising known as the German Revolution of 1918 1919 which established the Bavarian Soviet Republic the anarchists Gustav Landauer, Silvio Gesell and Erich Mühsam had important leadership positions within the revolutionary councilist structures.
Besides its pre-Revolutionary War structures, Four Corners includes the Shrewsbury Presbyterian Church, built in 1821; a Quaker meeting house, constructed in 1842; and the municipal complex.
What powered McDonald's was not its superior products, nor even its superior marketing, but, rather, the revolutionary financial structuring of the company, designed by a financial genius named Harry Sonneborn who 'figured out a way to finance a multi-billion-dollar empire without cash, collateral or even a significant show of profitability'.
He bought the island and added an eight-room Victorian wing with higher ceilings onto the Revolutionary-War structure.
