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Oil Hits Florida Beaches
The BP Gulf Oil Disaster is just that. And the only clean up story circulating right now is the contract actor Kevin Costner has struck with BP. So if you are currently on the west coast of Florida and want to spend a sunny day on the beach, Think again! At least if you’re in [...]
Ingenious Flipper Bridge Melds Left-Side Drivers With Right-Side Drivers
Hong Kong drives on the left side of the road, mainland China on the right. So how do you prevent crashes when driving between them? Like this… To quell confusion at the border and, more importantly, to keep cars from smashing into each other, the Dutch firm NL Architects proposed a brilliant, simple solution, the [...]
New London Double Deckers
It was one of the pledges of his electoral campaign, and now London Mayor Boris Johnson has made good on his promise to bring back the iconic London red double-decker bus. However, this is a cleaner, greener and cooler looking model. Today, the new design, complete with new-generation hybrid engine, was unveiled to the general [...]
This is Chill
A 2010 Timelapse Showreel; Shot in beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia; Host of the 2010 Winter Olympics. Shot in the days and weeks leading up to the games. This is very cool.
New City – Cisco Style
Cisco’s Wim Elfrink and developer Stan Gale plan to standardize many elements of New Songdo (see above) in other cities. Photograph by James Whitlow Delano Ten years ago, Gale was a builder and flipper of office parks. Gale’s fate began to change in 2001 with a phone call from South Korea. The Korean government had [...]
