55 minutes ago by sd

I will be able to breath a bit easier in a few weeks. The semester is almost done. It seems the horror stories are at least partly true. I knew going in that it would not be easy. My introduction to architecture school thus far has been full of long hours, a slew of extra [...]

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1 hour ago by Jack Skelley

While Americans were giving thanks last week, Mumbai, India suffered a terrorist attack that exposed ill-prepared emergency-response teams. (As reported in the Wall Street Journal, India’s Army commandos were armed with hand guns and scooter helmets, while terrorists had machine guns and grenade lau ...

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2 hours ago by Dave Buchhofer

A quick dmg reel one of the guys cooked up a few months back, page: EwingColeDMG testing out this Kaltura video plugin..

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3 hours ago by modculture

Looking to brighten up your life with some old school Hollywood-style glamour? Well, book yourself into this William Cody-designed mid-century house in Palm Springs. California, USA. Built in 1964 for inventor/industrialist Stanley Goldberg, the house sits high in the San Jacinto Hills, part of a sm ...

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3 hours ago by Klintron

Around America tent cities are springing up as people are losing their houses and their jobs. And it isn’t just the drunks and the disturbed; at this tent city in Reno, Seven in 10 were from the area, where the housing market has cratered, the tourism industry is in the dumps and construction jobs h ...

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3 hours ago by viapontica

I would like to introduce you to a remarkable period property from south-eastern Romania, the Casota Conac that I am very familiar with since I grew up in that area. Introduction : “Conac” is the term given in southern and eastern Romania (the old provinces of Wallachia and Moldavia) to country mans ...

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3 hours ago by Manny

You don’t usually associate beer and places of worship together but in this case they make up one another. Thai Monks from the Sisaket province have used over a million empty beer bottles to build their temple. The Monks used the bottles to make the Buddhist Temple as a way to help clean up local po ...

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3 hours ago by Bridgette Steffen

This gorgeous crystalline structure is the new home of the Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies in Chicago. Designed by Krueck + Sexton Architects, the building’s layout is focused around the use of natural light, and its contemporary design sets it apart from the surrounding 19th Century masonry bui ...

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3 hours ago by sullivankreiss

On November 24, Stantec announced they have offered to acquire Jacques Whitford. The transaction is expected to be completed in January 2009, subject to satisfactory due diligence, regulatory approvals, and Jacques Whitford shareholder approval. “Jacques Whitford is a leading provider of environment ...

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3 hours ago by Jeffrey Burk

Retail remixed by Ksubi. Walking by the outside you wouldn’t know it was a shop. No signage. Doesn’t look like a store. Maybe a gallery. Maybe it’s still under construction? Can I go in? Confusing signals. Which is the point. Ksubi manages to create a retail environment that fuses retail rules with ...

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