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This article features Trevor and Ryan Oakes, New York City-based artists who are identical twins. One of their breakthroughs is figuring out a way of rendering the world before them onto a curved sheet of paper which seems like a camera obscura or a camera lucida projection. The twin's father is a social worker, while their academic mother specializes in children's literature. The Oakes twins are suffering from dyslexia but they excel in everything else such as mathematics. One of the principle motifs of their work is seeing with two eyes. They were both accepted at Cooper Union, an art school known to be difficult to get into for any applicant. Their material investigations led to a series of conceptual breakthroughs.

The article reports on the move of the New York City Department of Buildings toward digitizing the design and construction process. Such move will reduce the towers of paper the agency receives. Called the Buildings Scan and Capture Application Network (B-SCAN), the system is part of the city's 2006-2009 Strategic Plan and will allow for the online retrieval of construction permit applications and all associated documents, with the exception of architectural plans.