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January 26, 2012

Celebrity Kitchens

(Slide show) Whether sleek and urbane or rustic and homey, the kitchens of stylish stars can be as creative as their famous owners. Click through our slide show from the AD archives for ideas to inspire your next renovation
January 25, 2012

At Home with Jorge Elias in Sao Paulo

The Brazilian architect flamboyantly blends equal parts grand antiques and bold contemporary art at his neoclassical-style mansion
January 24, 2012

Rineke Dijkstra’s Absorbing Portraits

The Dutch photographer's captivating work goes on display at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
January 24, 2012

A New G-Shock Watch Awaits a New Bluetooth

Casio's G-Shock GB6900 watch uses a new, low-power Bluetooth chip called Bluetooth Smart (or Bluetooth 4.0) to do amazing things with a PC or smartphone. Butt the watch doesn't work unless your phone also has Bluetooth 4.0 - and right now, only a coupl...
January 23, 2012

A Jewel-Box Apartment in New York

Architect Steven Harris and designer Lucien Rees Roberts give Claire Weiss just what she was looking for--a pied-a-terre done gloriously well
January 20, 2012

The Leap Second Gains a 3-Year Reprieve

With no consensus, international delegates postponed for three years a decision on whether to eliminate leap seconds, which help keep the world’s atomic clocks synchronized with Earth’s rotation.
January 20, 2012

Jean-Louis Cohen’s New Book, "The Future of Architecture Since 1889"

In his new book, the noted historian explores the rapid transformation of the built environment over the past century
January 19, 2012

A Minimalist Beverly Hills Home

An entrepreneur with a yen for simplicity and order calls on designer James Magni to turn a Los Angeles home into an ultramodern haven
January 19, 2012

A Second Here a Second There May Just Be a Waste of Time

Seven hundred delegates from about 70 nations attending United Nations telecommunications agency meeting will decide whether to abolish the leap second, which is added on once every few years to synchronize atomic clocks; United States wants to scrap t...
January 19, 2012

To Keep or Kill? Lowly Leap Second Focus of World Debate

The United States wants to scrap the leap second, but beware: without it, noon will strike at sunrise thousands of years from now.