Streets of NewYorkCity

Perhaps in the future, the streets will be green gardens.

We need more trees, more flowers... more nature in our cities.

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good sun(ny)day

33 Ways To Stay Creative

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How to lay out a croissant

In my first year of College i discovered the universe of Enric Miralles.

I used to wear a t-shirt with this fantastic design: How to lay out a croissant

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I took these photographs in a fantastic place.

A window is privacy, a good place to see how is the inhabitant.

Good friday!!!

Bruno Taut: Alpine Architecture

UNTIL 17.07.11

CIRCULO DE BELLAS ARTES, MADRID

Bruno Taut is one of the leading German Expressionist architects of the twentieth century. With utopian ideas, Taut was a visionary with his proposals for contemporary expressionist architecture of the time.

This exhibition is part of a long-term intervention undertaken by the CBA on the issueof utopian horizon. In collaboration with the Akademie der Künste Berlin, the exhibition focuses on the Alpine Architecture project, composed between 1917 and 1919, in which Bruno Taut explains his proposal to build a utopian city in the Alps.

The complex, consisting of 36 sketches that made the book, that had never been shown before in its entirety, certifies the permanence of a utopian vision in stone. A-theoretical production that can be described as an exercise in fantasy, an experienceor a spiritual journey.

removing contaminants PHYTOREMEDIATION

Phytoremediation

Posted by WhatWow on 25 May, 2011.

Phytoremediation is a specific kind of bioremediation that uses plants to remove contaminants from the air, water, or soil. The plants used in phytoremediation can be harvested and the absorbed toxins can therefore be completely disposed of in a responsible manner. This method of remediation is suitable for applications where other kinds of remediation strategies would be impossible, for example where the particles or materials are too fine or unstable to be removed mechanically. Other kinds of phytoremediation practices include those that use plants to absorb toxins from soil or water, which are then released into the air via evapotranspiration, and rhizofiltration where bacteria on plant rhizomes assist in the disposal of toxins. The plants used in phytoremediation vary according to the substance of particle for removal, and the unique abilities of particular plants to take up particular contaminants. The plants are all hyperaccumulators, and can bioaccumulate, degrade or render harmless the contaminants that they take up. Common plants used in phytoremediation are members of the Brassica (mustard) family, Helianthus Sp. (sunflowers) and members of the Populus (poplar) family. Phytoremediative tactics are the subject of ongoing research and experimentation.

Linda McCartney LIFE IN PHOTOGRAPHS

PHILLIPS de PURY & COMPANY ANNOUNCES LIFE IN PHOTOGRAPHS

AN EXHIBITION OF PHOTOGRAPHS BY LINDA McCARTNEY

FEATURING SELECT HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE LINDA McCARTNEY ARCHIVE
VIEWING: JUNE 7 - 16, 2011
LOCATION: Phillips

de Pury & Company, Howick Place, London, SW1P 1BB

you can browse CATALOGUE HERE

Linda McCartney BIO

Linda Louise McCartney (née Eastman) was born in Scarsdale, New York, on September 24th, 1941. She graduated from Scarsdale High School, Westchester County, New York in 1960, and went on to study at the University of Arizona, where she majored in art history.

Linda got her first big break as a photographer while working as receptionist at Town and Country Magazine. She used an unwanted invitation to a Rolling Stones promotional party on the SS Sea Panther on the Hudson River in New York to document the event and photograph the band.

Linda became a professional photographer in the mid-sixties. Her pictures during this period chronicled the musical revolution of the decade. Whilst working as the house photographer at the Fillmore East in New York City she photographed many iconic musicians including; The Rolling Stones, Otis Redding, B.B. King, The Doors, The Grateful Dead, Frank Zappa, The Beach Boys, The Who, Cream, The Kinks, Traffic, The Byrds, Jimi Hendrix and, ultimately, The Beatles.

Linda's photograph of Eric Clapton for Rolling Stone magazine's May 11th, 1968 issue made her the first female photographer to have work featured on the cover of the magazine.

In 1968, Linda was in London to shoot an assignment on the ‘Swinging Sixties’. Linda met Paul McCartney at the Bag O’Nails Club and then again four days later at the launch of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band at Brian Epstein's house in Belgravia. A year later they married at Marylebone Registry Office, London, March 12th, 1969.

After receiving credits on Paul’s solo album Ram, Linda joined Paul on stage, as keyboard player and vocalist, in Wings. She went on to write and record several songs of her own, including ‘Seaside Woman’, released in 1977 through Epic Records in the US, under the band name Suzy and The Red Stripes. Linda’s album Wide Prairie was released posthumously in 1998.

In 1989, Linda began to pioneer another passion, to save the lives of animals through promoting the vegetarian lifestyle that she and Paul long embraced. Her first two vegetarian cookbooks, Linda McCartney’s Home Cooking and Linda’s Kitchen became international best sellers. Linda’s cookbook, Linda McCartney On Tour, was published by Little, Brown & Co in 1998.

Following the huge success of her first cookbook, Linda broke new ground in 1991 by launching her own range of readymade meat free meals, which have become the most popular vegetarian foods in Britain. From an initial choice of just six meals, the range has expanded to more than 40 products.

Linda’s photography has done much to help promote the aims of many varied causes including the anti-fur lobby Lynx, Greenpeace, The Council For The Protection Of Rural England, Friends Of The Earth, The Great Ormond Street Hospital, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, The Hammersmith Hospital, The British Dyslexia Association, The Rye Memorial Hospital and War Child.

In 1998, Linda came to the aid of two other causes, the cancer charity Bacup and The Starlight Foundation – each of whom received profits associated with her sponsorship of the world’s first all-vegetarian professional cycling team.

Linda’s work has also reached the cinema screen. Her photographs of The Grateful Dead became the inspiration and focus of Grateful Dead: A Photofilm, produced from a process of making stills photography move and morph that was invented by Paul McCartney. The photofilm was honoured by entry into both the London and New York Film Festivals.

Following her previous work with short animated films – Seaside Woman andOriental Nightfish – Linda also completed work on another animated short,Wide Prairie, which was shown in 1998.

Linda continued to work prolifically as a photographer throughout her life, documenting, amongst other things, family life, landscapes and the natural world, interiors, and portraits of artists.

Despite her work as a photographer, animal life campaigner, cookbook author, musician and vegetarian pioneer, Linda said her greatest achievement was her and Paul’s four children; Heather, Mary, Stella and James.

RIBA Awards 2011

The RIBA Awards have been running continuously since 1966 and are judged and presented locally.

No matter the shape, size, budget or location, RIBA Award winning schemes set the standard for great architecture all across the country.

RIBA Awards are for buildings in the UK by RIBA Chartered Architects and RIBA International Fellows.

This year’s award-winning buildings range geographically from a winery in Spain to a community hall on the Scottish Hebridean island of Raasay, and in style from the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford to ‘Love Shack’ - a self-build hideaway in the Lake District National Park. The recently completed Velodrome is the first ever 2012 Olympics event building to win an architecture prize and is one of five RIBA Awards for Hopkins Architects, a practice previously shortlisted three times for the RIBA Stirling Prize.

Balancing Barn. Mole Architects with MVRDV

2011 has been an exceptional year for private houses which constitute 17 out of 89 UK winners. Schools and universities have also flourished with 14 schools (including three BSF projects and two Academies) and 9 university buildings winning awards. Last year’s RIBA Stirling Prize winner, Zaha Hadid, is an award winner this year with the Evelyn Grace Academy in South London.

Three very different health buildings – the NHS Teenage Cancer Trust in Birmingham, Foster + Partner’s private Circle Hospital in Bath and a new Maggie’s Cancer Care centre in Cheltenham – showcase carefully designed, comfortable spaces to aid patient wellbeing.

You can see the winning buildings by region HERE.

NOT MEMORY BUT FUTURE

no memoria, sino porvenir...

today i´m thinking about my future...
and i´m hopeful.