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The ash plume of southwestern Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull volcano streams southwards over the Northern Atlantic Ocean in a satellite photograph made April 17, 2010. The erupting volcano in Iceland sent new tremors on April 19, but the ash plume which has caused air traffic chaos across Europe has dropped to a height of about 2 km (1.2 mi), the Meteorological Office said. (REUTERS/NERC Satellite Receiving Station, Dundee University, Scotland)
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Wendy W Fok, Steven Ma + Dominik Szerlec have just won 2nd place for the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge․Hong Kong Boundary Crossing Facilities International Design Ideas Competition Open Group. ‘Ephemeral Roof Exchange’ is an exquisite proposal that pulls from a range of cultural and environmental sources. In the end it seems to balance performance and what the group calls ‘physical qualities of elegance’ extremely well. A detailed project description from the architects is located below.
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Vittorio Giorgini, 1925-2010
Two colleagues recall the longtime Pratt Institute professor and designer of visionary topological architecture.
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From the many pavilions on display at the Expo, we decided to feature one in particular. The UK Pavilion, made up of 60,000 transparent seed-rods, is one example that is worth taking a closer look at. Enjoy>
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For those of you that are not lucky enough to get out to China this summer to see the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai, the next best thing is a series of images that at best can give you an idea of what we are missing out on….and in some ways…what we are not missing out on…for example the 4 + hour wait/line just to get into the expo, as well as, on average 3-4 hour wait/line to get into each pavilion.
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