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Friday, August 20th, 2010
Some general house painting techniques you can use for your bathroom:
A) Bright red and orange are freshness to you and it will feel like increase your physical strength, especially if these are used it at the shower area. These can be diluted with bathroom mirror if you like, you just completed a routine bathroom mirror in the bathroom with a perfect combination.
B) Cool colors like white and blue light in the bathroom ideally for most house painting, because these colors in the bathroom will be easily spotting dirty spots. Act quickly when spotted dirty - wash to clean out the bathroom easily.
C) In contrast to the internal use of painting in the bathroom like the rest of the house with its shape and location, a darker color can be used to increase space feeling. For darker contrasting effects in a small area is always good to increase space. However, for bathroom is not recommending to have darker color and advice to use light colors.
D) Black, the color used to fade in the bathroom is easy because they absorb more moisture rich in any bathroom; it’s always a need to draw again. On the other hand, light color did not have a strong water absorption feeling, so they last a while longer. Lighter color, so is the best bathroom choice, in any case those who make the space seem larger and more detailed.
Finally, if you feel that your bathroom is boring, what you can do is to hand some wonderful photos or pictures to bright the space feeling up. You will feel like a pleasant day after you visited a well painted bathroom.
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Saturday, July 10th, 2010
In Fukuoka City in Japan, they have an amazing building called “ACROS Fukuoka” with two very distinct sides: one side looks like a conventional office building with glass walls, but on the other side there is a huge terraced roof that merges with a park. The garden terraces, which reach up to about 60 meters above the ground, contain some 35,000 plants representing 76 species. A huge semicircular atrium and the triangular lobby provide contrast to the greenery, in this space is a symphony hall, offices and shops.
The building was constructed on the last remaining green space in the city center, so the architects, Emilio Ambasz & Associates, created a design to preserve the green space as much as possible, while still fitting in a large office building. In addition, a green roof reduces the energy consumption of a building, because it keeps the temperature inside more constant and comfortable. Green roofs also capture rainwater runoff, and support the life of insects and birds.
The building is a success in Japan, its terraced south facade utilized by many in the area for exercise and rest, affording views of the city and the harbor beyond. Unfortunately it has received little press overseas, especially in the United States.
This building was also featured in a book showcasing green roofs. Published last year, this visually attractive book has photos and descriptions of forty case studies of exemplary green roof projects — from Mexico City to Malmo, Sweden to Fukuoka, Japan to Dearborn, Michigan. It includes contributions from many of the leading people in the field. The book is intended to inform and inspire communities, designers, building owners by showcasing the environmental and aesthetic potential of large-scale green roofs.
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Saturday, July 10th, 2010
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Monday, July 5th, 2010
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Thursday, July 1st, 2010
Winner of an international design competition for the Wuhan New Energy Center in Wuhan, China, the “Wuhan Energy Flower” by Grontmij and Soeters Van Eldonk Architects is essentially a research institute in the field of new energy sources and sustainability. Inspired by the Calla lily, the zero energy building is gonna be the first to receive the BREEM outstanding accreditation in the world. Powered by solar and wind energy, the flower-shaped building is 140m tall and is surrounded by a number of laboratories resembling the leaves.
Harnessing natural resources, the sustainable building collects rainwater in the bowl to fulfill its water requirements, and the solar panels enclosing the roof produces renewable electricity to fulfill the energy needs of the structure. Featuring pistil made in vertical axis wind turbines to collect renewable energy, the building integrates a solar chimney in the middle to maximize natural ventilation, while the rim of the bowl works as sunroof to heat and cool the building.
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Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
In January 2009, some children from Dharavi, Mumbai, created music with Bappi Lahiri and DJ Paul Devro of Mad Decent. One of the songs produced was named ‘Slum Stars’, supposedly in reply to Danny Boyle’s acclaimed movie ‘Slumdog Millionaire’. This is an interview of the friends and family of the children taken during a party organized by Dharavi.org. This video was made by the students of CEMA (Center of Experimental Media Arts, Srishti, Bangalore) in association with Dharavi.org.
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Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
One thousand and five hundred years ago when craftsmen began cutting rocks and sculpting them into magnificent statues of Gods, little did they realize that in the second millennium the Elephanta Caves would not just be a major tourist attraction but would also be a World Heritage Site. The world’s oldest island caves are now getting a new lease on life. The India National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) has teamed up with the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to spruce up the caves and protect them from further decay and degeneration.
Elephanta Caves date back to the sixth century AD and boast of some of India’s most magnificent rock-cut sculptures of Lord Shiva. Situated 11 kilometers from Mumbai’s Gateway of India, these caves are reached by small boats. Once on the island, visitors have to climb over 1,000 stone steps to get to the caves.
The caves were originally built during the reign of the Rashtraputa kings. They contain huge images of Brahma, Parvati, Natraja and Shiva. The best and most famous of these is ‘Maheshmurti’ - a three headed bust of Shiva which is about six metres high.
The great elephant structure in black stone, which gave the island its name, was removed in 1864 by the British to take it to England. However, it was later returned to India and now stands at the Victoria Gardens, a park with a small zoo in Mumbai. On top of the caves are two huge canons installed by the British to protect the Bombay harbor.
There are nine carvings in the main cave that depict the life of Lord Shiva in different manifestations -the dancer (Natraja), Shiva killing a demon Andhaka, marriage of Shiva and Parvati, Shiva’s descent to the Ganges, Shiva as Ardhnarinateshwar, Shiva as Maheshmurti, Shiva lifting Mount Kailash, Goddess Parvati on Mount Kailash and Shiva as an ascetic.
Back in the mid-80s a team of leading international archaeologists, conservators and historians visited the site and forwarded a proposal to UNESCO to grant heritage status to the caves. The proposal was accepted in 1987 and Elephanta Caves were declared a World Heritage Site.
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Sunday, March 15th, 2009
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Sunday, March 8th, 2009
India will join rest of the world by observing ‘Earth Hour’ to save energy as well as environment on March 28.
The people will be observing the Day by switching off all the lights and electrical appliances for an hour from 8.30 pm to 9.30 pm.
Began with one hour switching off lights at Sydney in Australia two years back, the ‘Earth Hour’ was observed in 35 countries last year in an attempt to reduce the carbon footprint, the World Wide Fund for Nature (India) Education officer Dr Goldin Quadros said.
This year India, especially Delhi and Mumbai will participate, he said adding that WWF was getting support from the government as well as the corporate houses.
Lights would be switched off or dimmed at 11 PVR cinemas in Delhi and Mumbai and corporate offices.
As per WWF this year, 50 lakh citizens of 377 cities from 74 nations are participating in this initiative.
Kick-starting the ‘Earth Hour’campaign at the at green technology festival of the Chemical Engineering department at IIT `Azeotropy’ , Mumbai Mayor Dr Shubha Raul said it was important to cut down carbon level and the municipality will be keen to help in the endeavour.
She has called for a meeting of all the corporators to brief them about the `Earth hour’on Monday and WWF will have a video show for them.
(via Economic Times)
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