Glass Arriving at Amazon's Biospheres

by Charles MudedeWhat will happen to our city when one of the most brazenly bizarre buildings in its history is completed? Charles Mudede
As the plates of spaceship-grade glass are added to Amazon's biospheres, a strange feeling is slowly coming together. A feeling of this kind can be found in the opening of a dubstep tune, "Tauhid," by Ireland's Boxcutter (Barry Lynn). That opening, which runs for about 2 minutes, also echoes the opening of Jorge Luis Borges' prose poem "Parable of the Palaces"