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If you have a large, thin scarf you don’t wear anymore, turn it into a kimono-style jacket that you will. It takes less than an hour of work and a few supplies.
Designed by Singapore-based architects AD LAB Pte Ltd, Charlton 27 is a 27-unit cluster terrace project in the heart of the tropical city-state. The architects experimented with the design of the units as well as their relationship with the outdoors to achieve a feeling of bright spatial openness and environmental comfort within the typically dense typology of privately owned terrace houses with communal facilities.
In Charlton 27, the spatial design concept is to open up the interiors of the units by splitting the upper floor levels of the houses and to create a central atrium that allows air and light to flow through the buildings both horizontally and vertically. Above this central atrium are two louvred wind scoops at the roof level, one facing each of the prevailing wind directions, that draw air into the central atrium as well as allow warm air to escape.
All of the bedrooms and living spaces that surround the central atrium at each level bring in light and air into the rooms through the external windows as well as have openings into the central atrium, providing cross ventilation into every main living space of the house and contributing to the Greenmark Gold certification of the development. The center of the terrace house is here a bright and airy space that gives a feeling of permeability and openness as well as allows the inhabitants to see diagonally through the house and beyond to the lushly landscaped external. Lightweight screens on the external facades mediate the harshness of the direct tropical sun. These screens are angled to increase privacy from on-looking houses while maximizing the views to the 50m swimming pool and richly planted external environment.
Global firm Gensler has proposed an alternative skyscraper concept for the waterfront site in Chicago where a spiralling, supertall condominium tower by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava was slated to rise. (more…)
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The Republic of Venice was a major maritime power during the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and a staging area for the Crusades and the Battle of Lepanto, as well as a very important center of commerce (especially silk, grain, and spice) and art in the 13th century up to the end of the 17th century. This made Venice a wealthy city throughout most of its history. It is also known for its several important artistic movements, especially the Renaissance period
The name of the city, deriving from Latin forms Venetia and Venetiae, is most likely taken from “Venetia et Histria”, the Roman name of Regio X of Roman Italy, but applied to the coastal part of the region that remained under Roman Empire outside of Gothic, Lombard, and Frankish control. The name Venetia, however, derives from the Roman name for the people known as the Veneti, and called by the Greeks Eneti (
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Instagram is finally taking advantage of iOS share extensions so that you can post photos without ever opening Instagram itself. But then you wouldn’t get to play with all those nice filters, and I’m all about the filters.
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