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Spandau Sequenzen

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h/t Fipi Lele

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…no.

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business in the front spiders in the back

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When people talking about “reinventing the wheel”.

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reblogging again for that comment

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The one and only The Australian Garden at the Royal Botanic Gardens – Cranbourne, Australia, by TCL. -The LA Team

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Floating art lets people walk on water at Italy's Lake Iseo

(CNN)Thanks to a pop-up art installation made of floating saffron-colored walkways, visitors to northern Italy's Lake Iseo can now walk on water.

Well, sort of.The Floating Piers, an artwork which moves with the waves, stretches across the lake linking two islands to the mainland -- transforming the otherwise tranquil island of Monte Isola into a tourist hot-spot for 16 days this summer.The free installation opened on June 18, but its popularity has exceeded organizers' expectations.Some 270,000 people turned up in the first five days, meaning that the attraction has had to be closed between midnight and 6 a.m. to allow for cleaning and repair of wear and tear.Made by artists

Christo and Jeanne-Claude

, the golden walkway is made from floating polystyrene docks topped with 100,000 square meters of shimmering golden yellow fabric, a stark contrast to the green mountainous landscape that surrounds the lake.

"We chose this lake because of its marvelous location, the islands reach hundreds of meters above the sea and only 2,000 people live there," says Bulgarian-American artist Christo, who conceived of the idea back in 1970 together with his now late wife, Jeanne-Claude.

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Vanadium: The “Beautiful Metal" That Stores Energy

An unheralded metal could become a crucial part of the renewables revolution. Vanadium is used in new batteries which can store large amounts of energy almost indefinitely, perfect for remote wind or solar farms. And what’s more there is loads of the stuff simply lying around in industrial dumps.

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Magic Breeze Landscape / Facade Design by PENDA

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Watly pitch INCENSe

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ZIGONG by Martha Schwartz Partners

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Hong Kong from above

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Seeds coming along. Pulling up those weeds was a bitch. Got it done though with some help. So I’m good to go. Put in some more manure, worm castings, compost, peat moss, and rock dust.

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Image credit: Timothy Hursley

“Mood Ring House is an exploration of how architecture can have different day and night presences with distinct experiential and spatial qualities. The “T” shaped volume of this inexpensive house, located in an eclectic neighborhood near the town center of Fayetteville, Arkansas, is born out of a mix of site limitations and opportunities, economic constraints, and programmatic requirements. With a skewed alignment to the lot lines, the siting preserves two established monumental trees, orienting the house to take advantage of north light from a clerestory, and south and west facing views of the immediate forest and the distant mountains, all while fronting the main intersection near the property.”

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​collection of modern day pyramids . Aren’t they just timeless ✨

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Verterra Energy’s 3D printed turbine prototype shows promise for sustainable hydropower ~ 3ders.org

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(via A Glass House Inside A Slanted Steel Frame in Jakarta)

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Image credit: James and Connor Steinkamp | Text credit: Thomas Fisher

“Located in the heart of Shanghai, this building asks us to contemplate our relationship to nature—as a natural history museum should. Its nautilus-shaped core, representing one of the most efficient forms in nature, enables people to spiral up from the surrounding park onto the building’s extensive green roof, into the museum under its corner entry canopy, and down into a courtyard and light well, whose meandering stairs and irregular pools recall Chinese water gardens. The courtyard’s curving glass wall follows the spiral up, down, and around, shaded by a screen whose fractured pattern echoes the cracked-ice pattern of traditional latticework as well as biological cells.”

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The Intersection of Textiles and Technology

Aaron Betsky looks at implicit gender biases in interior design through a reading of Textile Technology and Design: From Interior Space to Outer Space, a new book from Bloomsbury Academic.

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Image and text credit: MA2

“The Houston Library and Exhibition Complex is the second installment in the initiation of dynamic architectural proposals for Houston, Texas and the greater development of ideas for American cities. The design functions along multiple trajectories of display corridors and library storage to interpolate exhibition with an expanded book collection for international reading and research. By having a series of harmonic manifolds of book collection space and the mixing of programmatic function for exhibition, it generates a dynamical system of flowing conditions which manifests with moments of extrapolation within the tectonic massing and circulation. Within the radiating tectonic corridors there is also included smaller botanical gardens which resonates with the surrounding landscape development as well, serving the community with a robust flower display and plaza.”

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