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May 9

sentiostudio:

EDITT Tower, an eco-friendly skyscraper in Singapore.

When nature meets the city you usually get nothing because the nature gets destroyed to make room for artificial structures like towers, clubs, supermarkets etc. People miss the beauty of the natural elements but they enjoy the comfort of the artificial ones so there’s not a lot they get to do in that direction.
The EDITT Tower is here to prove us wrong. Located in Singapore and designed by architects T. R. Hamzah & Yeang, is a very eco-friendly structure. The 26 storey building manages to harmoniously put together two very different concepts: modernity and respect for the environment. EDITT is actually the acronym for Ecological Design in the Tropics. This amazing structure features around 855 m2 of photovoltaic panels delivering 39,7% of the building’s energy supply. And this is not all. A biogas generation plant is used to convert sewage into alternate energy and fertilizer. The whole structure is wrapped into an insulator shield of local vegetation. A grey-water recycling system is used to irrigate the living façade.

EDITT Tower, an eco-friendly skyscraper in Singapore.

When nature meets the city you usually get nothing because the nature gets destroyed to make room for artificial structures like towers, clubs, supermarkets etc. People miss the beauty of the natural elements but they enjoy the comfort of the artificial ones so there’s not a lot they get to do in that direction.

The EDITT Tower is here to prove us wrong. Located in Singapore and designed by architects T. R. Hamzah & Yeang, is a very eco-friendly structure. The 26 storey building manages to harmoniously put together two very different concepts: modernity and respect for the environment. EDITT is actually the acronym for Ecological Design in the Tropics. This amazing structure features around 855 m2 of photovoltaic panels delivering 39,7% of the building’s energy supply. And this is not all. A biogas generation plant is used to convert sewage into alternate energy and fertilizer. The whole structure is wrapped into an insulator shield of local vegetation. A grey-water recycling system is used to irrigate the living façade.

May 8

designcloud:

Aérial by Baptiste Debombourg

Aérial by French artist Baptiste Debombourg flows like a monumental wave of broken glass into the Column Hall of the former Benedictine abbey ‘Brauweiler’ in Cologne. Carrying with it the light that passes measured through the windows, the crystalline structure seems petrified, frozen in a moment of unrestrained movement. It took about 420 hours and two tons of glass to complete the project. Baptiste Debombourg explained ‘the mind is everything. The material is the servant of spiritual.’

fyeahuniverse:

^{Ca²⁺ ATPase}

^{Ca²⁺ ATPase is a protein which enables active transport of Ca²⁺ across the membrane of cells. This active transport allows the cells to maintain a low concentration of Ca²⁺ ions in the cytostol which is important for proper inter-cellular signalling.}

^{Hydrolysis of ATP is the powerhouse for this process, as it allows the binding of Ca²⁺ ions with a ratio of one ATP hydrolysed for each Ca²⁺ ion bound.}

^{Here you can see Ca²⁺ATPase in a cellular membrane.}

^{^{(Image via wikimedia)}}

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May 5

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May 3

brcdesigns:

The Enignum III Chair by Joseph Walsh

In the Enignum series of work, I have stripped wood into thin layers, manipulating and reconstructing them into free form compositions. I then shape through these layers to reveal not only the honesty of the structure but the sculpted form which is a unique collaboration of man and material. The title derives from the Latin words Enigma (‘mystery’) and Lignum (‘wood’), for me they sum up the series: the mystery of the composition lies in the material.

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Apr 28

architectura:

Neuschwanstein Castle is a 19th century Romanesque Revival palace near the town of Hohenschwangau in Bavaria, Germany. The palace has appeared in many movies and was the inspiration for Disneyland’s Sleeping Beauty Castle.

architectura:

Hagia Sophia is a former Orthodox patriarchal basilica, later a mosque, and now a museum in Istanbul, Turkey. From the date of its dedication in 360 until 1453, it served as the Greek Patriarchal cathedral of Constantinople, except between 1204 and 1261, when it was converted to a Roman Catholic cathedral under the Latin Patriarch of Constantinople of the Western Crusader established Latin Empire. The building was a mosque from 29 May 1453 until 1931, when it was secularized. It was opened as a museum on 1 February 1935.

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