Part of a damaged helicopter is seen lying near Osama bin Laden's compound on Monday, a day after U.S. Navy SEAL commandos killed the al-Qaida leader. Bin Laden was killed in the U.S. special forces assault on the Abbottabad, Pakistan compound, then quickly buried at sea, in a dramatic end to the long manhunt for the man who had been the guiding star of global terrorism. In my recent article, “Creating... 

Open mode: The Safe House, on the outskirts of Warsaw, Poland, is the ultimate in secure design. At the touch of a number of buttons, the whole building shuts into a concrete cube. Worried about an apocalypse, zombies or merely unwanted summer guests? The ‘Safe House’ may be right up your street. We all know about a panic room, but a team of architects literally thought inside the box to...