The Goldenkey Chalet, at an altitude of 2000 metres, is a 41-room hotel situated at the ski resort of Kartalkaya in Turkey. The hotel has two restaurants, a café, lobby, children’s playroom, lounges, SPA and ski room — via ArchDaily
The Project is born over the remains of an ancient, about 120 year old cottage. It had a popular, architectural typology of the region, this means, one floor with two spaces, facing the south, with the rooms in both sides of the central circulation and spaces of chambers and under covers in the upper floor — via ArchDaily
There’s something about the compact, muscular stance of 70s-vintage BMWs that makes them prime candidates for customization. This one comes from leading glass artist Francesco Pagnin of Treviso in Italy, who calls his motorcycle workshop ‘Franz Garage’. It’s based on a BMW R45, the 473cc boxer-engined middleweight built throughout the late 70s and early 80s — via Bike EXIF
Here’s a house with a mysterious engineering problem that I cannot discover the answer to. If anyone has seen the actual house (it’s by BGP arquitectura in Valle de Bravo, 150 km from Mexico City) and seen how this works, I’d be interested in hearing it — via Home Design Find
This dapper fellow is only available for three more hours! So, if you want a shirt featuring a moustachioed and bemonocled cephalopod for only $10—AND WHO DOESN’T?!?—you need to act fast! This is the first shirt from Ript Apparel that I’ve featured, and I don’t know much about them. They appear to use the TeeFury model—a new shirt every day, available for just that day — via Indie Squid Kid
This 800-square foot Clearlake itHouse is under construction in California right now. Similar to another itHouse that we mentioned previously, the home will be off-grid and solar-powered. It will also be the first, elevated, above-ground itHouse, leaving the site relatively untouched by the structure.
The Taalman Koch Architecture-designed retreat includes a studio, bathroom, and three outdoor court decks. A wood burning stove will provide heat and propane will be used for cooking and water heating — via Jetson Green
Audemars Piguet has updated its last year’s Royal Oak Offshore tourbillon chronograph watch with a more subdued version, which is going to be sold as a Ref. 26550AU.OO.A002CA.01 model.
If you compare both models, you will see that the new Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore Tourbillon Chronograph Ref. 26550AU.OO.A002CA.01 retained the basic shapes of the last year’s version, but now offers a different combination of materials and a more standard
layout of the dial.
The case is now made of forged carbon, which is accented with glossy black ceramic bezel, as well as crown and chronograph push-pieces made of the same scratch-resistant material — via World Watch Review
The Bridge House is located in Kent, Connecticut along a 300′ ridge that parallels the Housatonic River not far from Kent Falls State Park. The state park boasts a beautiful series of cascading falls and a historic covered bridge. Joeb Moore + Partners Architects took these impressions and observations of the surrounding environment as inspiration and the jumping off point for the conceptual design of the Bridge House — via ArchDaily
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The CSIRO has aired tentative plans to expand its datacentre footprint in the nation’s capital, calling for expressions of interest from vendors — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A new drug for skin cancer can slow the spread of the disease in half of patients, thereby extending their lives, a study says — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A man on fire, who later died, has been found by emergency crews in a south London wood — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Fittingly named Palais Bulles, or Palace of Bubbles
, this residence represents the fundamental ideas of architect Antti Lovag, who views architecture as a form of play- spontaneous, joyful, full of surprise
. Built in 1989, it rests on a rocky cliff overlooking the Mediterranean Sea — via ArchDaily
Google Earth, the Chrome browser and photo service Picasa will be available for download in Iran for the first time, the search giant has announced — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A Vatican department advised Ireland’s Catholic bishops in 1997 not to report priests suspected of child abuse to the police, a newly revealed letter shows — via redwolf.newsvine.com
One of Japan’s largest glass manufacturers debuted on Thursday a new glass designed for smartphones and tablet PCs that is considerably tougher than conventional glass.
Asahi Glass said its Dragontrail glass is about six times as tough as typical chemically-treated soda lime glass and should be better suited to the rough-and-tumble life to which portable gadgets are subjected — via redwolf.newsvine.com
E-mails between a client and attorney are no longer considered privileged and confidential if the client writes the messages from a work e-mail account, a California court of appeals has ruled — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Yahoo is forging ahead with a move to IPv6 on its main Web site by year-end despite worries that up to 1 million Internet users may be unable to access it nitially.
Yahoo’s massive engineering effort to support IPv6 — the long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet’s main communications protocol — could at first shut out potential www.yahoo.com users due to what the company and others call IPv6 brokenness
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
FotoFrame makes the process of resizing your photos extremely straightforward. Tell it where your photos are, where you want to copy the resized versions and the resolution of your frame, and it does the job automatically. You can tweak settings such as image types included and the quality of the resulting JPG files, but for most uses the defaults will be just fine.
FotoFrame is a free download for Windows
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