Design
Artist and musician Zach Katz virtually transforms the streets of the world's major cities in order to show how the space could be made more hospitable to pedestrians. Every day, he posts new creations on his Twitter account and, in the space of a few weeks, has become something of a star among internet users, city planners and politicians. How do we imagine the downtown zones of the future? The Twitter account @Betterstreetsai explores this question by using DALL-E, the artificial intelligence (AI) that has started a real trend on the web. Here, fountains, green space, rails or even roads res...
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Whether by chance or coincidence, a number of destinations in Her Majesty Elizabeth's kingdom appear in the results, from Liverpool to Edinburgh. It is even a city in Cheshire, at the entrance to Wales, Chester, which wins the bet, with an almost perfect score of 83.7%. The best destinations for retiring in, the cities that offer the best quality of life, the world's hotspots for food or best nightlife... There is no shortage of rankings seeking to establish the best spots for visiting. Of course when it comes to establishing a list of the most beautiful places in the world, one might think th...
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Recovering the waste generated by a restaurant is a genuine environmental issue, and it's one that inspired a London designer who came up with the idea of transforming fish and chips remains from a restaurant in the coastal town of Margate... into plates! Opting to use local and seasonal ingredients, adapting the portion sizes that are served and reducing the number of items on the menu, managing energy and waste... There are many ways for a restaurant to reduce its carbon footprint. In England, in the trendy seaside resort of Margate, located in the county of Kent, Angela's fish restaurant,...
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For years, Haitham al-Madini's house was like all the others on his block: a beige, nearly windowless facade sealed off from the outside world -- as Saudi Arabia itself largely was. But two years ago, confined during a pandemic lockdown, Madini decided to open things up, adding a street-facing patio, redoing the exterior walls in limestone and installing soft lighting in the entryway. Local architects and engineers say such features have become a hallmark of renovation and newly-built projects across the capital Riyadh as Saudis, spurred in part by revised building codes, embrace homes and bus...
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As Indonesian President Joko Widodo led Anthony Albanese around the lush gardens of a presidential palace south of Jakarta earlier this month, he presented the new Australian prime minister with an unusual gift: a bamboo bike. The night before, designer Singgih Susilo Kartono learned it would be the Spedagi model he crafts in a small village on the island of Java that the leaders would ride side-by-side in a unique moment of bicycle diplomacy. Prime Minister Albanese would tuck his trousers into his socks after the statesmen stripped off their jackets and ties and donned helmets, setting off o...
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A seemingly simple idea could help blind or visually impaired people to locate the contents of their plate without being obliged to touch the food directly. Using different textures, like raised dots or dashes or a smooth surface to identify food groups like carbohydrates, protein or vegetables, a design student has created a collection of tactile tableware and linen to take the stress out of mealtimes. It's stylish. It's touch-friendly. And it can be used by everyone! Its name? Tact -- a name that evokes what lies behind this tactile tableware collection designed to help blind and visually im...
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Airless tyres that never go flat or need to be inflated: It's a decades-long dream that manufacturers hope to turn into a reality soon, but for truck drivers first. The challenges that the technology faces were put on display at a Goodyear test track in Luxembourg, where a group of journalists put a Tesla equipped with airless tyres through its paces. Instead of being filled with air, the tyres have a web of spokes that keep the wheels firm and give them a see-through look. The thin layer of rubber gripping the asphalt has a gargantuan physical challenge to meet: supporting the weight of the c...
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To address the threat of rising sea levels, the city of Busan and partners have unveiled a prototype of a sustainable, self-supporting floating community. This floating city will be able to meet the needs of its residents, who will also have to pitch in themselves. The phenomenon of rising sea levels poses a real risk to many coastal cities around the world. In fact, the recent IPCC report from the UN states that "sea level rise poses an existential threat for some small islands and some low-lying coasts." Busan, a large port city in southern South Korea, hopes to anticipate rising seas by cre...
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Three years after the devastating fire, Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris is mostly cleared of a thick layer of soot as an army of craftsmen race to meet a deadline to reopen in time for the 2024 Olympics. Ahead of the anniversary of the blaze on Friday, the mammoth cleaning job of the walls, vaults and floor is almost completed, restoring the cathedral to its original whiteness. The inferno that engulfed the 12th century Gothic landmark on April 15, 2019 caused its central frame to collapse and ravaged the famous spire, clock and part of the vault -- shocking millions around the world. The cath...
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For centuries the impressive arcades flanking St Mark's Square in Venice have embodied the watery city's elegance, harmony and architectural significance. Now, the Renaissance-era palazzo whose galleries span as far as the eye can see on the north side of the square is opening to the public for the first time on Friday, following a three-year renovation. The building known as the Procuratie Vecchie, now owned by Italian insurer Generali, was long the seat of the Procurators of St Mark, who for centuries administered the assets of the church in the wealthy city of Venice, away from the public e...
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