Month: July 2022

People: June Lee named project manager at Frame Architecture

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June Lee Frame Architecture has announced they have named June Lee as project manager.Lee joins the firm with 5 years of prior experience in the architectural industry, previously working as an architectural designer for a firm in Los Angeles, where she worked primarily on healthcare projects governed by Health Care Access and Information.Lee’s background includes …

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Live Like Hobbits In These 10 Hobbit Homes Around The World

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Hobbit homes are some of the most fascinating dwelling places one can be in. These tiny little homes are not just built for small people but just about anyone who loves a unique lodging experience. And believe it or not, these dwellings are just as luxurious as any home can be and also spacious enough …

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Amazon stops constructions in Bellevue and Nashville

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The Seattle-based e-commerce company, Amazon Inc, has decided to halt construction projects of its six office buildings in Bellevue and Nashville. According to a news report by Reuters, the e-commerce company took this decision in order to reconsider the building designs which would suit a hybrid work style. Since the beginning of the pandemic in …

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Inside the zany, space age-inspired Dreamscape Apartment by Red5studio

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People’s own stories and daily vocations often reflect in the places they inhabit, through their choices of décor articulating their homes. Such is the case with the uncanny, cavernous, and colourful interiors of this residence in Ho Chi Minh City that reveal a playful, atypical, space age-inspired aesthetic punctuated with artsy furniture, quirky décor and other …

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Inflationary Pressure Easing For Some Construction Materials

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A cement plant The price of construction materials was still rising in June, but there are indications that inflationary pressures on at least some construction inputs are starting to ease, according to Associated Builders and Contractors. Overall, construction input prices were up 1.9% in June compared to the previous month, according to ABC’s analysis of …

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Stands of maidenhair fern are plant architecture

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Most of us don’t find it absolutely essential to know the name of every plant and animal we encounter, but it is certainly a great pleasure to know the more common ones on a first-name basis. Among the fern tribe, the one which always stops me in my tracks is the maidenhair. Actually, you never really encounter a single maidenhair …

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Russian armed forces hit Chuhuiv: there are fatalities

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ALONA MAZURENKO — SATURDAY, 16 JULY, 10:03 3 people have been killed as a result of the shelling of Chuhuiv in Kharkiv Oblast, and the Russian troops have partially destroyed a two-storey residential building. Source: State Emergency Service of Kharkiv Oblast; Oleh Syniehubov, head of the Kharkiv Oblast Military Administration Quote: “At night, the Russian …

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The Viral ‘Sand Battery’ Isn’t What It Seems

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The internet is hot for what’s being called a “sand battery.” In our earlier post about it, I was lukewarm. It looked like a form of seasonal thermal energy storage (STES), which has been done for decades, and that is pretty much how the Finnish designers described it on their website. The term “sand battery” …

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