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Marrakech: The Style | Mustapha Blaoui’s Showroom
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Lemurs, Madagascar
Photo: Stephen AlvarezDecken’s sifakas appear right at home in their karst home in western Madagascar. These lemurs live...
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The Hashtag Comes to Architecture
The Bjarke Ingels Group, a Danish architecture firm, has taken inspiration from the (resurgent) hashtag in its design plans for an apartment complex in Soul, South Korea.
Via Dezeen:
“The Cross # Towers constitute a three-dimensional urban community of interlocking horizontal and vertical towers. Three public bridges connect two slender towers at different levels – underground, at the street and in the sky. Catering to the demands and desires of different residents, age groups and cultures the bridges are landscaped and equipped for a variety of activities traditionally restricted to the ground. The resultant volume forms a distinct figure on the new skyline of Seoul – a “#” that serves as a gateway to the new Yongsan Business District signaling a radical departure from the crude repetition of disconnected towers towards a new urban community that populates the three-dimensional space of the city.” Bjarke Ingels, Founding Partner, BIG.
Images: Schematics for the Cross # Towers in Soul. Via BIG.
As part of Singapore’s masterplan to develop its Marina Bay area, these towering eighteen ‘Supertrees’ take vertical greenery a step further, integrating over 226,000 plants consisting of over 200 species with a host of other functions, like solar power and solar hot water generation, rainwater collection and acting as ventilation towers for the horticultural conservatories below.
Read more and see more pics here: Huge Biomimetic ‘Supertrees’ Taking Root on Singapore’s Waterfront (Video)
Brilliant.
(via wnyc)
Do Nhat Nam, who lives in Vietnam and is all of 10 years old, is locally famous for his mastery of English. He translated a book at the age of seven. (Photo by Jennifer Pak, PRI’s The World)
Nam fell in love with the language after seeing a video of Steve Jobs talking about computers on YouTube. More.
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An ethnic Uighur vendor (3rd R) and his family sell vegetables, as his son rests under his tricycle, on a street in Uqturpan county, Xinjiang, Uyghur Autonomous Region, April 3, 2012.
[Credit : Stringer/Reuters]
A great snapshot of family and life.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m20ezrrA2F1r44q44o1_500.jpg)
An ethnic Uighur vendor (3rd R) and his family sell vegetables, as his son rests under his tricycle, on a street in Uqturpan county, Xinjiang, Uyghur Autonomous Region, April 3, 2012.
[Credit : Stringer/Reuters]
A great snapshot of family and life.
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A sea of election posters from the 174 candidates for Seoul’s constituencies in the 11 April general elections are strung over the Cheonggye Stream in Seoul, South Korea, April 3, 2012.
[Credit : Ahn Young-joon/AP]
Imagine something like this in the U.S. …](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1yocsilQT1r44q44o1_500.jpg)
A sea of election posters from the 174 candidates for Seoul’s constituencies in the 11 April general elections are strung over the Cheonggye Stream in Seoul, South Korea, April 3, 2012.
[Credit : Ahn Young-joon/AP]
Imagine something like this in the U.S. …
From years of house arrest to a position of power: Pro-democracy activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi was elected to Myanmar’s parliament in a landmark vote over the weekend. (Photo: A man shows a phone with a picture of Aung San Suu Kyi as election results are revealed in Yangon on April 1, 2012. By DAMIR SAGOLJ/REUTERS)
It’s a historic moment for Myanmar, with democracy appearing to be advancing in leaps and bounds — and with relatively little violence. Do events in Myanmar offer a model for democratic transitions elsewhere? More.
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There’s a gold rush in the Himalayas. Fortunes are being made – and lives are being ruined – not over gleaming metal nuggets, but in the reckless pursuit of yarsagumba. A rare hybrid of caterpillar and mushroom that grows only in the high alpine meadows of Tibet, Nepal and India. It has been prescribed by traditional healers in Asia for centuries to treat lung and kidney diseases, build up bone marrow and stop hemorrhaging, but it is prized above all for its reputation as a powerful aphrodisiac, earning it the nickname “Himalayan Viagra.”
The explosive growth in the yarsagumba market beggars the most extravagant superlatives: In 1992, a pound of the stuff sold for $3; today, the same quantity retails for around $9,400. Read more.
Photos by Thomas L. Kelly, visit www.thomaslkellyphotos.com
“Hybrid of caterpillar and mushroom?”
(via newshour)
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In Focus: Before and After Japan’s Earthquake
This combination of pictures shows the view of a tsunami hit area of Ofunato, Iwate prefecture on March 14, 2011 (right side) and the same scene as it appears on January 15, 2012 (left side). March 11, 2012 will mark the first anniversary of the massive tsunami that pummeled Japan.
See more. [Image: Toshifumi Kitamura/AFP/Getty Images]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzv2j0XYI81qcokc4o1_500.jpg)
In Focus: Before and After Japan’s Earthquake
This combination of pictures shows the view of a tsunami hit area of Ofunato, Iwate prefecture on March 14, 2011 (right side) and the same scene as it appears on January 15, 2012 (left side). March 11, 2012 will mark the first anniversary of the massive tsunami that pummeled Japan.
See more. [Image: Toshifumi Kitamura/AFP/Getty Images]
Filipinos drive past a damaged national highway after a 6.9-magnitude earthquake in Guihulngan Town, province of Negros Oriental, Central Philippines, on Feb. 7. At least 22 people were dead and many more missing after an earthquake triggered landslides and collapsed houses in the central Philippines, an army commander said. (Photo: Dennis M. Sabangan / EPA via MSNBC.com)
(via theweekmagazine)
A Chinese young performer dressed in a dragon costume prepares to perform at a temple fair to celebrate the Lunar New Year of Dragon, Jan. 22, 2012 in Beijing, China. (Feng Li/Getty Images)
