The young Swiss watchmaker has teamed up with the famous Greengo night club (Gstaad, Switzerland) to offer this limited edition Hublot Big Bang 44mm Greengo Bang automatic chronograph watch — via World Watch Review
I really don’t understand why Google didn’t add a feature that lets you upload a bookmarks file exported by your browser to Google Bookmarks. Google still recommends to install Google Toolbar in Internet Explorer or Firefox to upload bookmarks, but this shouldn’t be necessary. That’s like installing Picasa to upload your photos to Picasa Web Albums.
Fortunately, Mihai Parparita built a tool for exporting your Delicious bookmarks to Google Bookmarks and it can be used to upload any bookmarks file to Google Bookmarks — via Google Operating System
What happens when the concept of a project is reduced to a façade in the process of its development? Are purely aesthetic aims valid in architecture? Is façadism something worthwhile? Are we to become architectural dermatologists?
A client contacted us to design a hotel for corporate suites in Nápoles, a residential neighborhood in Mexico City that has been rapidly converting to office use over the past few years. The plot was located across the street from the convention center of the World Trade Center, by far the busiest office building in the city. The suites were intended to accommodate businesspeople visiting the WTC and the year round expositions — via ArchDaily
Suppose that just after you finish reading this article, you keel over, dead. Perhaps you’re ready for such an eventuality, in that you have prepared a will or made some sort of arrangement for the fate of the worldly goods you leave behind: financial assets, personal effects, belongings likely to have sentimental value to others and artifacts of your life like photographs, journals, letters. Even if you haven’t made such arrangements, all of this will get sorted one way or another, maybe in line with what you would have wanted, and maybe not.
But many of us, in these worst of circumstances, would also leave behind things that exist outside of those familiar categories. Suppose you blogged or tweeted about this article, or dashed off a Facebook status update, or uploaded a few snapshots from your iPhone to Flickr, and then logged off this mortal coil. It’s now taken for granted that the things we do online are reflections of who we are or announcements of who we wish to be. So what happens to this version of you that you’ve built with bits? Who will have access to which parts of it, and for how long? — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A ten-year old girl from Canada has discovered a supernova, making her the youngest person ever to find a stellar explosion. The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada announced the discovery by Kathryn Aurora Gray of Fredericton, New Brunswick, (wonderful middle name!) who was assisted by astronomers Paul Gray and David Lane. Supernova 2010lt is a magnitude 17 supernova in galaxy UGC 3378 in the constellation of Camelopardalis, as reported on IAU Electronic Telegram 2618. The galaxy was imaged on New Year’s Eve 2010, and the supernova was discovered on January 2, 2011 by Kathryn and her father Paul — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Six bird species are set to be added to the list of extinct Australian animals — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Gunther von Hagens, the German anatomist famous for his Body Worlds
shows of preserved corpses, has told a German newspaper that he is suffering from Parkinson’s disease. He is preparing to become an exhibit himself, he said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Pet lovers in Massachusetts are optimistic the governor will sign into law this week that will allow them to designate in a will who should care for a pet after the owner’s death — via redwolf.newsvine.com
An Australian scientist has discovered an unusual species of frog in southern Vietnam — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The urban biophillic pavilion, designed by studio d’ARC, is located atop a nineteenth century row house in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The pavilion is a reconstruction of a rooftop greenhouse originally built in 1978. The new pavilion serves as both a garden and common room with indoor and outdoor areas including deck platforms with spectacular views — via ArchDaily
The Black White Residence inhabits the masonry shell of an existing house. Focusing the design concept around ruins and exploring the idea of aperture, the glass temples, black frames, and white stucco provide a stark contrast to the natural surroundings, all the while offering views to the landscape beyond. The design program called for renovations on the first floor level and the addition of a second level with a significantly smaller footprint — via ArchDaily
…more tea, darling
– Nextwave 01 (Director’s Cut) – art by Stuart Immonen 2006 — via A Moment of Ellis
A pilot’s spilled coffee has been blamed for accidentally activating a hijacking alert and prompting a United Airlines flight from Chicago to Germany to stop in Canada on Monday — via redwolf.newsvine.com
If you’ve seen TRON: Legacy, you know Sam Flynn (played by Garrett Hedlund) has a cool shipping container house in the movie. After some investigation, it turns out that a temporary container structure was built as a set on the shore of South Vancouver and later torn down — via Jetson Green
In the first set of cables leaked by WikiLeaks that originate from the U.S. embassy in Tokyo, Japan asked the US to take action against an anti-whaling activist group for harassing Japanese whalers, including taking away the group’s tax-exempt status — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A 1998 study that unleashed a major health scare by linking childhood autism to a triple vaccine was an elaborate fraud
, the British Medical Journal (BMJ) said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Working with wood, one learns quickly that flexibility is lost when thickness is added – but strength is lost is you make something too thin. One solution is to try and take the best from both properties, as this ingenious seating system does.
Titled Spring Wood, the series of three pieces shown here each represent hundreds of hours of prototype modeling, building, carving and testing by recent arts academy graduate (and award-winning) Carolien Laro and associates. Each seat itself has about five hundred machined slices made through it — via Dornob
When these architects say defensible space
, they mean it in a drastically literal fashion. Centuries old and made to rebel French invaders from the shores of Britain, this defense tower has stood the test of time.
Originally, over 100 such towers dotted the coastal landscape, constructed to defend against a potential invasion by Napoleon. Cannons were mounted atop them, lofted to 30 feet above the ground below. They were abandoned nearly 150 years ago – this one was rediscovered (or rather: re-envisioned) recently, however, by Duncan Jackson and Piercy Conner Architects — via Dornob
The new Richard Mille RM 010 Boutique Special automatic watch is issued in a super-limited edition of 10 pieces and is reserved exclusively for RM`s boutique located at the famous Place Vendome square in Paris — via World Watch Review
Located in Woodside, California the Creekside Residence sits in its own natural world. The site is in a meadow surrounded by western oaks, Douglas fir, and aromatic bays that border two creeks that never meet. Bohlin Cywinski Jackson focused the design of the residence around the surrounding landscape creating cantilevered roofs and views to the environment beyond. This project received a 2009 Honor Award for Design AIA Pennsylvania and a 2009 Wood Design Honor Award. More photographs and sketches following the break — via ArchDaily
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