Monthly Archives: June 2008
Ready Made Construction
02/06/2008 – 8:08 AM
The movement to reduce, reuse and recycle is taking on new meanings all the time. Now it’s starting to hit the construction industry and there’s an entire civilization of unused building materials in the world’s shipping yards. With so many empty and unused shipping containers in nearly every developed country, and then some, people are [...]
Rising Crime Rates
02/06/2008 – 8:08 AM
UK artist Abigail Reynolds presents some startling stats in her series entitled Mount Fear. Each of the city maps featured, (London, Manchester and Eindhoven) are built up with layers that represent a specific police statistic of the number of occurrences of a crime. Check out Mount Fear Manchester which depicts police statistics for violent offenses [...]
Green Giant
02/06/2008 – 8:08 AM
One of Canada’s largest oil companies EnCana recently hired UK architectural giants Foster + Partners to design their new headquarters in Calgary. Talk about carbon credits. This building, dubbed The Bow is sustainable architecture at some of its finest. Features include an entire network of interior green spaces as well as three sky gardens. And [...]
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