Temporary chapel for the Deaconesses of St-Loup - Localarchitecture (1)
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Architects: Localarchitecture & Danilo Mondada Location: Hôpital de St-Loup, Switzerland Project year: 2008 Structure: IBOIS - Hani Buri, Yves Weinand Client: Deaconess Community of St-Loup Photographs: Milo Keller ©2008 In the summer of 2007, Localarchitecture and architect Danilo Mondada were awarded the contract to renovate the mother house of the Deaconess Community of St-Loup. The commission involves the complete renovation of a historic building, including the community’s main chapel. It was immediately apparent the mother ...
Friday Focus: 11/21/08 (2)
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Focus is one of the most important aspects of design—you need to tell the audience which elements are important and which aren’t. This week’s featured sites execute this idea well, and even take it to the next level. See if these designs don’t grab your attention at all! Designs of the Week This layout makes you feel you’re really interacting with an application as opposed to a webpage. And it doesn’t hurt that Apple’s design ...
Casa em Lousado / Correia Ragazzi (1)
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Architects: Graça Correia e Roberto Ragazzi Location: Lousado, Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal Site Area: 3,013 sqm Constructed Area: 355 sqm Promotor: Joaquim Agostinho Carneiro da Costa e Sá Collaborators: Ana Neto Vieira, Susana Silva, Telmo Gomes, Katharina Wiederman, Pedro Gama Structure and foundation engineering: GOP Hydraulic Services: GOP Technical Facilities Engineering: GET Coordination and supervision: Graça Correia Contractor: Emplame Project year: 2004 End of construction: 2008 Photographs: Alberto Placido, Luis Ferreira Alves Our architecture ...
Wii System Update Kills Custom Channels And Disables Homebrew (1)
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Okay Wiitards. It's your turn this morning. With Sony touting its 14-million PSN active accounts and Microsoft releasing the New Xbox Experience, Wii gamers might be feeling a bit left out. Not so! This week Nintendo released version 3.4 of the Wii System Menu. While promising the usual basics of improved stability and functionality, 3.4 also adds some "features" that might irk some Wii owners -- it alters the end user license agreement, removes all ...
Muritzeum / Wingardh (1)
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Architects: Wingårdh Arkitektkontor Location: Waren (Müritz), Germany Architects team: Gert Wingårdh, Gunilla Murnieks, Therese Ahlström, Joakim Lyth, Ulrika Davidsson, Peter Öhman, Björn Nilsson, Liselott Jademyr, Maria Olausson, Anna Palm, Mats Bengtsson, Sara Helder Construction Year: 2005-2007 Partner in Germany: DGI Bauwerk, Berlin Germany Contractor: Landlord/owner - Landkreis Müritz Landscape: NOD, Stockholm, Sweden Constructed Area: 3,137 sqm Photographer: Wingardh Visitor centre for the region “Mecklenburgische Seenplatte”. A unique central point in Waren in between Müritz, the ...
Man nabbed after hitting girlfriend with sandwich (AP) (3)
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AP - A man faces a domestic battery charge after allegedly hitting his girlfriend with a sandwich as she was driving on Interstate 95 on Friday. Police said the 19-year-old man became angry and hit the woman in the arm and face with a sandwich, knocking her glasses off.
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Bad Subway publicity.
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Campus Restaurant and Event Space / Barkow Leibinger Architects (2)
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Architects: Barkow Leibinger Architects - Frank Barkow & Regine Leibinger Location: Stuttgart, Germany Design Phase Team: Jason Sandy, Johanna Doherty, Christina Eickmeier, Klaus Reintjes Construction Phase Team: Lukas Weder (Project Architect), Philipp Heidemann, Caspar Hoesch, Christina Möller, Mathias Oliva, Dagmar Pelger, Jason Sandy Project Year: 2006-2008 Constructed Area: 5,400 sqm Client: TRUMPF GmbH + Co. KG Structural Engineer: Werner Sobek Ingenieure Electrical Engineer: IBB Ingenieure Landscaping: Büro Kiefer Photographer: Christian Richters Neither a factory nor ...
Tired of dissapointing battery life on your iPhone? (1)
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The Power Slider boasts an internal battery that can double the battery life of your iPhone 3G. It comes equipped with a custom-designed lithium-ion polymer battery that allows for continuous charge to the iPhone’s own battery. When in use, the Power Slider’s battery will drain first before your iPhone’s battery is even touched. The Power Slider displays a five-light LED battery status indicator on the reverse; it also shows when in sync mode and in ...
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The Swahili Bed (2)
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The Swahili bed was in a recent article on MAKE Magazine (a publication that inspired AfriGadget’s creation). In it they discuss why this style of bed is so useful on the hot and humid East African coast. “In Kenya, the most common and most useful piece of furniture is the rot- and bedbug-resistant Swahili bed.” “In most houses, you can only find one type of furniture: the Swahili bed. It’s used as a couch, bed, ...
Openmoko hat Ärger wegen MP3-Patenten (1)
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Das freie Handy-Projekt Openmoko hat Ärger wegen der angeblichen Verletzung von MP3-Patenten, obwohl die Telefone nie mit Software zum Abspielen von MP3-Dateien ausgeliefert wurden. Vorübergehend wurden alle Firmware-Images vom Download-Server entfernt. (OpenMoko)
Los Canteros Mountain Refuge / dRN Arquitectos | Arch Daily (3)
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Architects: Nicolás del Rio y Max Núñez - dRN ARQUITECTOS Location: Farellones, Chile Collaborator: Oltmann Ahlers G. Structural Engineer: Enzo Valladares Contractor: Eduardo Torreblanca Site Area: 435 sqm Constructed Area: 140 sqm Project Year: 2007 Construction Year: 2008 Materials: Steel, Stone, Wood Budget: US $792 /sqm Photographs: Felipe Camus The site was an existing void in the middle of a slope, bound on two sides by magnificent old containment walls built of stone. These walls ...
Arcangelo Sassolino (1)
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