Female muses offer a virtuous, often religious dimension, to masculine dreams of heroes conquering the world and Mother Nature, too.

Dubai’s Burj Khalifa takes the hymenocallis flower as its muse.

I’m on record saying that the Burj Khalifa is a phallic cactus, if I ever saw one. No one dares to say that it looks like a stupendously glorious minaret, so I’ll stick with a phallic cactus.

The lily reference excapes me, as much as biomimicry fascinates me and the female-centric, environmentally-conscious wing of the design world. Biomimicry is the new vision and finally, girls get into the action.

Rather than conquering Mother Nature, our design goddess, we’re studying her mysteries for clues to eons-old solutions to design challenges.

A classic example is Japan’s bullet train. How masculine a concept is this!