A Room Where Sex is Better?
We've all known ways to make the bedroom sexy -- candles, maybe some rose petals scattered on the bed and floor, mood music (Barry White, for those of us who remember), a little bubbly. But now an architect is designing rooms themselves that make you feel like having sex. In short, they’ve created places that make sex better, as Richard J. Williams says in Aeon magazine this week, notes C.C. Sullivan of smartplanet.com. Dubbed "the Lady Gaga of Architecture," Zaha Hadid has been able "to cultivate an audience for her audacious, aphrodisiac forms," writes Sullivan at smartplanet.com. "Many critics have imagined Hadid’s elegant shapes moving, pulsating, unfolding and swelling." In Copenhagen this week, an exhibit of her work opens. Sullivan describes it as a room where, inside, "an illuminated fabric ceiling stretches and contracts, as flickering arteries of light pulse like corpuscles. The room is dark — a 'borderless, scenic univer...