The use of glass as a building material positively impacts learning, healing, productivity and well-being, according to a white paper published by Guardian Industries and the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Glass
In a white paper titled “The Benefits of Glass: A Literature Review on the Qualitative Benefit of Glass on Building Occupants,” Guardian Industries, along with the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban ...
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China has built glittering metropolises in the span of roughly three decades of reform and opening. But in an equal span of time, shiny urban centers risk losing their shining façades or even descending into slums thanks to poor ...
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Few subjects in China today are more interesting or all encompassing than urbanization, particularly as we enter a fascinating demographic shift that will reduce the rate of urbanization. China is simply running out of bodies in the ...
Tags: Urbanizatio, Aging, Relaxation Crisis
Google today launched Street View Special Collect for the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, in Dubai, marking the first skyscraper to join the collection as well as the first time the technology has been deployed in the Arab ...
The widely anticipated 2014 GE Edison Awards Preliminaries has officially kicked off this week. Preliminaries are being held across Asia Pacific to encourage the participation of regional lighting designers and professionals in this ...
Tags: LED lighting, LED, lighting
Furniture designer and architect Frank Gehry was born on 28th of February 1929 in Toronto, Canada. He has created inspiring designs and is well known for his use of unusual materials. We wish him a Happy birthday! Have a look below at our ...
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LEWISVILLE, NC (BRAIN) — Recumbent bike retailer Neighborhood Transportation is closing after six years in business as owner Bruce Hermann contends with health issues. Hermann was struck by a motorist while riding his recumbent four ...
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Electronic Arts Inc., in collaboration with GlassLab, today announced SimCityEDU is in development, an online educational community based on the award-winning SimCityTM videogame. SimCityEDU will serve as a resource for classroom teachers ...
Transmedia SF, a growing community of creative and tech producers, and Startup Weekend, a worldwide network of events that educate local communities about entrepreneurship, today announced the first ever StartUp Weekend Transmedia, a ...
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The province of Basra has awarded Dewan Architects and Engineers the contract to design the sprawling Al Nakheel City, for which the foundation stone was recently laid. As a modern urban development, the Al-Nakheel City is expected to ...
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Jan.14, A-share market surged and industrial machinery sector performed impressively. By the press time, the sector rose 4.56% as a whole, and 7 shares including Sanweisi and Chuangyuan Technology rose to the daily limit. Urbanization ...
Tags: Industrial Machinery, shares, China, China economy
International attendance at the congress Wasser Berlin International 2013 will be higher than ever before. Taking place on 24 and 25 April 2013, its slogan is “The innovative concepts, measures and technologies of a forward-looking ...
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NEW YORK — HOK Product Design, which creates innovative products for the built environment, has appointed Culture + Commerce as its licensing and consulting firm. Since 2009, HOK Product Design has created award-winning products for ...
AFP reported that perched on a hill by the iron ore mine it was once built around, the sleepy northerly Swedish town of Kiruna is in the process of reinventing itself. It has to: in 4 years, it will have moved somewhere else. At the turn ...
Tags: Kiruna, iron ore mine, iron, ore mine