A contemporary residential passive house that correlates with the region was the basic request of the owner. The themes of this architecture are the linear design, logical arrangement of the floor plans and the application of wood as a building material — via ArchDaily
The fact that a large portion of land lies three meters below street level and the typical conformation of this urban batch 10X40m enabled a large open space that is straightforward and transparent. This space is defined in one side by the north face structure, a parallel free wall which houses a library containing 7,500 volumes and on the other side by a parallel block, an all closed space – a block with three stories that contains all the services, equipment and dormitories — via ArchDaily
A major policy shift on the length of time terror suspects can be held without charge was signalled by Labour today, after the shadow home secretary said he could support cutting the limit to 14 days.
Ed Balls said that the party was ready to abandon backing for the current 28-day limit, which was introduced by the Labour government in 2006, and added that previous plans to raise this to 42 days had been a step too far
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
An American nuclear scientist says he was shown a vast new nuclear facility when he visited North Korea last week.
Dr Siegfried Hecker said he had been shown hundreds of centrifuges for enriching uranium, which can be used for making nuclear weapons — via dungbeetlemania.newsvine.com
Evidence supporting Australia’s internal quarantine restrictions designed to stop the spread of insect pests, has been published in the respected scientific journal, Nature Communications — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Desktop administrators rejoice! In the very near future you may be able to stop deploying Adobe Reader to users with basic PDF needs, and quite possibly, Adobe Flash as well.
Stepping to fill the gap is Chrome’s built-in PDF viewing feature, which is available presently in Chrome’s developer and beta channels as well as the integrated Flash player which has been out for a number of months now — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In 1990 Reykjavík Geothermal Heating Authority launched an open competition for a housing design for the hot water wells. PK Arkitektrar’s provided the winning design out of over 80 entries. This is the first of these buildings with others scheduled accordingly. These structures will stand as a symbol of the city of Reykjavík’s commitment to the utilization of the natural resource — via ArchDaily
Introducing a very simple and quick crochet scarflette design – the Ellipse scarflette!
You can wear this cute never-ending elliptical scarflette in a number of way – wrapped twice around your neck to keep out the chill. Looped loosely as a cute accessory, or worn casually over the shoulders — via whip up
Initially intending to design a housing structure as a set of prefabricated units hoisted onto a structural frame, the ideas and visual intricacies of Paul Rudolph‘s Colonnade Condominiums were developments of the previously designed but unbuilt Graphic Arts Center of Manhattan — via ArchDaily
Jam Home Made has released its second watch. Again it features Mickey Mouse on the dial. The Secret Mickey Watch Type 2 is based on the popular classic military design. The watch is all black (PVD I believe). The unique aspect of the watch is the eyes of Mickey which changes on a weekly cycle — via Horology Crazy
Apparently CoolHunting.com is on a limited edition kick, and will offer a few such items. One of them is going to be this highly limited Marvin Malton 160 Cushion Toujours Plus
watch that will only have 8 pieces. The watches will be available for sale, but one of them will be auctioned off to benefit the New York City Animal Rescue.
Technically the watch is identical to the current Marvin Malton 160 Cushion three-hand automatic. The difference is in the colors as well as the dial and some text on the watch. The 42mm wide steel case is PVD black with a black and green textured dial. Toujours Plus
is the French translation of CoolHunting’s motto always more
— via A Blog to Read
As the US middle class teeters on the brink after the housing collapse, some people are looking at an alternative. Instead of moving into a giant McMansion with 30 years of debt attached, some Americans are open to seeing just how little you can get by with, and seeing what can be build for practically nothing — via Home Design Find
Is this the most beautiful production motorcycle you can buy today? At the EICMA exhibition in Milan, the MV Agusta F3 has just won the poll to find The Most Beautiful Bike of the Show
. More than 12,000 votes were cast, and the F3 captured 39%—nearly twice that of the next entrant — via Bike EXIF
Experts dissecting the computer worm suspected of being aimed at Iran’s nuclear program have determined that it was precisely calibrated in a way that could send nuclear centrifuges wildly out of control.
Their conclusion, while not definitive, begins to clear some of the fog around the Stuxnet worm, a malicious program detected earlier this year on computers, primarily in Iran but also India, Indonesia and other countries — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A US senator has vowed to fight attempts to pass a controversial copyright protection bill that would allow the US government to shut down websites suspected of hosting infringing materials.
Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, said late Thursday that he would seek to block the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act, or COICA, from passing through the full Senate, unless the legislation is changed. Earlier Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 19-0 to approve the bill and send it to the full Senate — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Rovio Mobile, developers of the addictive Angry Birds game, has run into the oft-denied Android platform fragmentation issue. The company said in a blog post that it is now working on a separate, lighter version of its Android game version, after users reported performance problems with several older Android devices — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A friend of mine sent me this about his TSA experience. He, unlike most of us, was coming back into the country from Afghanistan on a military charter — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Two stolen statues have been returned to Rome, thanks partly to an Italian policeman who spotted one of them on sale in the US — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Located south of Mexico City, with a lakeside subsurface inheritance of the legendary Aztec lake, it develops this 480m² duplex in a slim residual plot.
Given the extensive program that customers requested, the 2 houses are resolved intertwined and interspersed within the maximum permissible restrictions, generating a large cube that blends with its dense urban environment kitsch-ecléctico-chilango
developed in the 70’s and 80’s — via ArchDaily
The local farmers call it a flood; an inundation that happens every 50 years.
Others believe it to be an act of God, an inevitability.
It isn’t water flooding the precious farmland in north-eastern India, but rats.
A once in a generation, gigantic plague of rats, that ruins crops and leaves people starving.
A rat army so big, so mythical, that until now some scientists did not believe it was real. — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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