If you live in an apartment in a city, you most likely have a fire escape attached to your building.
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Feed SubscriptionWanted: Paperweights That Say Screw Work, Leave Early
MoMa Design Store makes your mess of a desk into a garden of bad attitude with these flower-like paperweights. Crumple up that TPS report and go frolic! Here to remind you that you can indeed venture beyond your building for lunch, the MoMa Design Store's crumpled-up paper desk weight smack of bright spring flowers, screaming for you to break your hibernation. Better yet, they're made out of simulated work papers that you may have "simulated" finishing before leaving early to drink in the park.
Read More »Radiation Levels Explained: An exposure infographic
There’s been a lot of confusion and concern about radiation in the past few weeks. As part of the Building a Better Explainer project at NYU’s Studio 20 , we decided to create a visual explainer of radiation levels, inspired by some recent presentations over at XKCD and Information is Beautiful .
Read More »Sneak Peek: Corinthia Hotel, London
On April 2, the Corinthia Hotel reopened its flagship London location with 294 renovated rooms and suites surrounding an inner foyer and garden. The Corinthia, London, which maintained the building’s original Victorian exterior from 1885, is located in the city center overlooking many major landmarks, including the Thames River, the ...
Read More »Taking Waves: Nation’s First Tsunami-Resistant Building Could Be Built on the Oregon Coast
Plans to build the nation's first tsunami-resistant building are unfolding in Cannon Beach, Ore., in a region that is almost identical, seismically, to the subduction zone that triggered the earthquake and tsunami in Japan last week.
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