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Lyric video of "Untitled 2" by Architects 2015. All rights go to their owners.
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Architects Kerrang EP
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Pier Solar and the great Architects #54 - Schwerer Verlust
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Five things you need to know to create a well-designed subdivision
If you #39;re thinking about subdividing your property watch Context Architects new video on five things you need to know to create a well-designed subdivision. It looks at the best process...
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ARCHITECTS have designed a pair a buildings that will work together to not cast a shadow.
With a proliferation of new skyscrapers in recent years and plans for 230 more to be built in the near future, the problem of shade invading public space is a growing one for the capital.
To combat this problem, architects NBBJ used a computer modelling program to design two buildings that work together to refract and disperse light from the sun. They've called the project 'No Shadow'.
The buildings are designed in such a way that as one creates shade, the other - effectively a gigantic, curved mirror - reflects the light downwards into its shadow. Although not in the kind of aggressive, focused way of London's "Walkie Scorchie".
The relationship between the sun and shadow is the relationship between the two buildings.
- Christian Coop, NBBJ's design director
The team has placed the initial design proposal in Greenwich, near the O2 Arena, right on the prime meridian, but Coop tells Wired the computer program could be altered to create a similar pair of buildings anywhere else in the world.
This type of design could therefore inspire planners in other dense urban areas like Manhattan or Hong Kong.
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If you ever decide to walk the length -- and at least part of the breadth -- of Grandview-Woodland and you do it on a winter's day, then it pays to start out with a hearty breakfast. You can get one of those, billed as a ''meat skillet'' and served in the cast iron pan in which it is cooked, which seems both manly and befittingly industrial, arising at the corner of Powell and Commercial, where Kessel&March operates its foodstore/eatery.
Breakfast is served at the headwaters, so to speak, of Commercial Drive, the sinuous soul of Vancouver's east side and, it might be argued, one of the last hold-outs of class and conscience in a city gone mad with glass and nonsense.
Just a few short metres from my two baked eggs, ham, breakfast sausage, potatoes, baked beans, tomato, mushroom and toast is a chain link fence, several garbage cans, surveillance cameras and, on the other side of the fence, on the railway tracks, a rust-brown CN car bearing the emblem of La Commission Canadienne de Bl.
A river's job is to find its way to the sea. Commercial Drive, by contrast, flows up hill, away from the inlet to where the view is still grand but the land less wooded than when the railroad first made its way to Vancouver's shore. The port is all fenced off these days, and some of the near shore industry and chandlery has given way to huge storage lockers because apparently, in the modern economy, once we've offloaded all those goods that arrive from China in containers, our houses are no longer sufficient to accommodate the stuff we buy, so we pack it away back down near its port of entry. Self-storage is the fastest growing segment of the commercial real estate industry. Strange times.
Opposite Kessel&March on Powell is the stirring of an even newer economy, Tesla's Vancouver service centre, itself just metres away from a Hydro substation that hums the tune of a post fossil-fuel world. I've never seen a Tesla actually driven up Commercial Drive, mind you. The east side still inclines more to fixing things than to flashing them about.
Up aways on the corner of Franklin, at Storm Brewing Ltd., brewmaster James Walton is ''renovating'' though it is hard to separate what's new from what's, well, chaotic. Anyway, when an epidemic finally hits our shores, be sure to have some Black Plague Stout on hand. It might not stave off Ebola, but at 8.5 per cent alcohol by volume, drink enough of it and you won't care. Across the street, meanwhile, Sincerity Wholesale Ltd. seems to promise more than it can possibly deliver.
The first major tributary to intersect with Commercial Drive is Hastings Street. Look right to get your first glimpse of distant downtown -- and a foretaste of the eastward creep of developers like Millennium (of Olympic Village fame), who are offering up 82 units in a four-storey condominium development, Bohme, and promising ''a wonderful new neighbourhood of white brick residences, shops and restaurants in the heart of authentic Vancouver.'' I suppose if your idea of bohemianism is to live in a white brick condo on Hastings Street on the site of a previously ''authentic'' car lot, then plunking down a quarter of a million clams on a 500-square-foot box in ''Vancouver's Trendy East Village'' might be just the ticket. Fill your boots, and feed your inner gypsy.
The corner of Commercial and Hastings is also where the proletariat chariot, the No. 20 Victoria bus, turns south and begins its climb past Nick's Spaghetti House, which has fattened many an east side family for nigh on 60 years. In the parking lot a binner gives a friendly wave, while a woman with bright green hair (a real bohemian, perchance?) who lives upstairs between the NGE Convenience Store's 7UP sign and that of a happily revived York Theatre opens the door to admit a friend. Kitty-corner is the Adanac Towers -- at 12 storeys, one of the tallest buildings in the precinct, a modernist concrete tower built in the late 1970s and a precursor, perhaps, to a flood of incoming density. At three or four times the height of most apartment blocks in the area, you would think it would offend the skyscape, but just like the 12-storey Panorama Gardens up on Frances Street, its injury is more in its drab design than its brawn. Adanac Towers looks down on a stream of cyclists hithering and thithering crosstown on one of the east side's most popular bike routes, and it's here that the first of The Drive's S-bends curls up to meet Venables Street.
Just before The Drive straightens out, in the space of half a block, you can get a tattoo, a haircut, your computer repaired, stock up on medical marijuana and -- ''vibes! lubes!'' -- tool up at Womyn's Ware to apply some rotation to your sugar plum. Just around the corner, the delightfully named S&M Auto will rotate your tires, but John Le Van's rubber is strictly for the road. Opposite is Astorino's, the Red Velvet Room and the Ace of Suedes, all due for the chop if developer Daniel Boffo can get his 15-storey mixed-use tower approved, which will rehouse rather than displace the Kettle Friendship Society. Those 15 stories haven't thrilled local heritage advocates, but a well-designed development might just give a welcome fillip to the bottom end of The Drive.
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Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf wants to raise the sales tax and have it apply to more goods and services. ( (AP Photo/The Citizens' Voice, Christopher Dolan))
Under Gov. Tom Wolf's proposed budget, dozens of new things would be subject to the state sales tax, from child care services to nursing home services.
The Democrat from York County proposes to raise the sales and use tax from 6 to 6.6 percent effective Jan. 1, 2016, and to broaden the categories covered.
It's part of a budget plan that would also raise the personal income tax and lower school property taxes.
During a budget hearing on Monday, House Appropriations Committee Chairman Bill Adolph, R-Delaware County, called the sales tax proposal "a huge expansion" of items that would be taxed.
"As long as I've been in public office I always heard that a sales tax increase hurts the lower middle income folks and the poor folks the most," Adolph said.
Americans for Prosperity announced last week that it had released a radio ad criticizing Wolf over the plan, saying it will increase the cost of many everyday items, such as soap, diapers and Tylenol. "Even the cost of a Hershey's bar will increase," one of the speakers in the ad says.
During an interview on WITF's "Smart Talk" Wednesday, Wolf was asked about a person living in a nursing home who will have to pay more in sales tax without any property tax reduction. Wolf said people should look at the big picture.
"I'm looking at somebody who will look at his or her entire life and say, 'Is this plan making my life better or worse?'" Wolf said.
Wolf said the economy is a lot different now than when Pennsylvania's first permanent sales tax took effect in the 1950s. "We're just bringing ourselves into the 21st century," he said.
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Log Home Restoration project in Manitou Springs Colorado. Work in progress media blasting and sanding log home. Log Home walnut blasting, grinding logs, stai...
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The marital home of singing superstar Mariah Carey and her estranged husband, Nick Cannon, has sold in Bel-Air for $9 million.
The gated estate centers on a Hamptons-vibe mansion with French doors, black shutters and a red front door.
A music studio, a basketball court, a gym, a home theater, seven fireplaces, seven bedrooms and nine bathrooms are included in 13,000 square feet of renovated interior space.
A giant hall with vaulted beamed ceilings and walls of windows has room for several hundred guests.
The grounds include a putting green, a swimming pool, a spa, parking for more than 20 vehicles and room for a tennis court. There are canyon, city, mountain and ocean views.
Former "Charlie's Angels" star Farrah Fawcett owned the three-acre property for more than 20 years before selling in 1999 for close to $2.7 million to recording studio executive Allen Sides.
He rebuilt and expanded the Traditional-style house, then sold to Carey and Cannon about six years ago for $6.975 million.
Carey, known for her extensive vocal range, has received five Grammy Awards. Among her award-winning work is the album "The Emancipation of Mimi" and a 1990 recognition as best new artist.
Cannon has written for several television shows bearing his name as well as "Incredible Crew" (2012-13). He has hosted his own shows and "America's Got Talent" (2009-13).
They separated last year and have filed for divorce, according to multiple media reports.
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