Thursday, October 14, 2010

Reaction of a Kid when Saw Something Impossible to Get

 
 
 

It’s usual fthat kids love candy and other sweets food. But the kids, that’s live in 3rd countries and with their difficult life , even very low price things for us, they can’t afford it. For them, sleep in a place with ceiling is a great luck.

In this photo, you can see how this kid’s face showing how he wants it so much, and realize that it’s impossible for him to get.








Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Inside Look of the Twitter Office

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Do you know Twitter? Of course you are. I’m sure, almost all of you have at least one twitter account.

Twitter now become most famous microblogging, that almost shift media way in reporting the news. It’s a fast growing application.  Since its creation in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Twitter has gained notability and popularity worldwide. It is sometimes described as "SMS of the Internet."[7] The use of Twitter's application programming interface for sending and receiving text messages by other applications often eclipses direct use of Twitter.

Do you want to know how twitter office looks like?. Here’s a series of picture on their decoration

 

LOBBY – classical look and wide space

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OFFICE HALL

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WINDOW

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WORKSPACE

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WALL – full of twitter logo

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OFFICE - INTERIOR

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DESK

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BOARD ROOM

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DECORATION - fly

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DJ ROOM

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PANTRY

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Thursday, April 22, 2010

The Beauty of Green Wall

Imagine that  you have a great house like this…

What a great house, don’t you think so?.

Green, beauty, cool and mild air around the house, and healthy I guess, both for human and for nature. This is an example of Green Wall. What is Green wall?…

A green wall is a wall, either free-standing or part of a building, that is partially or completely covered with vegetation and, in some cases, soil or an inorganic growing medium. The vegetation for a green façade is always attached on outside walls; with living walls this is also usually the case, although some living walls can also be green walls for interior use.  For living walls there are many methods including attaching to the air return of the building to help with air filtration. They are also referred to as living walls, biowalls, or vertical gardens. [wikipedia]

 

As we know, global warming is existed threat nowadays, that need people all the world awareness to combat them. We can’t ask only one organization, or one country to solve this problem, because this is global thread, which affect all over the world. Look on how temperature changes since 1880. We should feel our home getting hotter…

 

Isabel Dedring, Adviser to the President Mayor of London Boris Johnson and the environment, said: ”People struggle really to see how old Victorian city built like London can be really the city of low-carbon, which if you look at the goals, it should be.

”There are a lot of things that can be done collectively offset those increases, and we have to start now.”

As a picture, should be planted extra million trees in London to combat the high temperatures over the coming decades, a plan the mayor the environment and increase the number of suggested.However trees by 2025, as well as creating more green areas and roofs, can help to thwart these expectations, the report added.

So, Green Wall can be a solution to help reduce global warming and save our earth.

Green Wall has many benefits, some of them are:

• Provides sound insulation.
• Filters air particulates to improve air quality.
• Reduces the Heat Island Effect.
• Moderates a building’s internal temperature via external shading.
• Creates a microclimate, which will help to alter the climate of a city as a whole.
• Helps a building retain heat otherwise lost to convection.
• Provides storm water management, absorbing 45-75% of rainfall.
• Serves as a natural water filter and water temperature moderator.
• Provides biodiversity and a natural animal habitat.

 

Below, you can see how Green Wall can be blended well with feel and look of the building. The wall covered with green life, if arrange well can be interesting too…

 

Ann Demeulemeester Shop


Architect: Mass Studies
Location: Seoul

Consortium Building headquarters

 

Architect : Henry Browne - Borja Huidobro.
Location : Las Condes. Santiago, Chile.

ELT Easy Green Living Walls


Developer: Mass Studies
Location: University of Guelph, Canada

Topiade lay-over Facade



Created by: Gas Design Group
For: Louis Vuitton

Parti Wall, Hanging Green


Architect: Young Architects Boston Group.
Location: The national convention of the American Institute of Architects, Boston.

Milly Film:


Design Team: Samyn and Partners
Location : Linkebeek, Belgium

Patrick Blanc’s Vertical Garden


Developer: Patrick Blanc
Location: Jean Nouvel’s Musée du quai Branly

Qantas First Lounge Green Wall


Designer: Marc Newson
Location: Sydney International Airport, Australia

Urban Nomad living walls

Developer: Urban Nomad

Saturday, March 6, 2010

10 Ugliest River of the Earth

God created all things big small and the wonderful Mother Nature has bestowed man with bounty of beautiful and magnificent creations. Snow covered mountain tops glittering as the sun rays touch the tiny crystals, the falling rivers that boldly part even the hardest rocks, the vast grasslands and tall trees swishing as the passing breeze whispers quietly , and so on, God created a perfect harmonic balance between the plants, animals, man and their surroundings But man’s quest to transform the world acc to his needs and preferences, have broken all laws of nature and the world stands at the juncture of self destruction and transience.
I am not a nature lover or a geologist studying the shifting trends of nature and nor am I some volunteer of any ‘save nature’ movement. I am a simple and a selfish human being who is worried about the future of his family as I spectate the nature being murdered by people just like me. I wont talk of global warming and melting glaciers but will give you a small glimpse of what we are doing to ourselves.
Here are few rivers which once may have been the habitat of the most beautiful aquatic life but now house our wastes. Have a close look at these ugly rivers of the world.
1. Citarum river, Indonesia

Surprised? That’s the Citarum river in West Java, Indonesia. While this river may look like garbage pool to you but is actually the main source of water for agriculture and water supply for the people. The river is heavily polluted by the human activity and has no aquatic life breathing beneath the floating wastes. In December 2008, the Asian Development Bank approved a $500 million loan for cleaning upthe river but as we see it will take years to get back the dead river back to life.
2. Yamuna River, India

Yamuna the largest tributary river of the Ganges is one of the most polluted rivers in the world where 58% of the waste from the Indian capital New Delhi is dumped intothe river . Its very surprising to note that a total of Rs 1,700 crore has been spent on cleaning Yamuna as well Ganges but with all efforts turning to vain, government has finally laid its hands down.
3. Buriganga river, Bangladesh

The Buriganga River is the main river flowing beside Dhaka city, capital of Bangladesh. The biological dead river owns its plight to the 80% is untreated directly flowing intothe river and polythenes deposited beneath water .
4. Yellow river from Lanzhou, China

The Yellow River is China’s second longest river and is the main water supply for millions of people in northern China. But the river with primarily Lanzhou which is the prime source of drinking water for the two million local residences, is heavily polluted with oil spills taking place every now and then due to industrial contamination.

5. Marilao river, Philippines


Plastic wrappers, rubber slippers, banana trunks and a bloated carcass of a dog, that’s few of the things you may find floating in the Marilao river. The waters contain toxic chemicals such as chromium, cadmium, copper and arsenic making the water very dangerous. Despite campaigns by the local government and imposing fines, households still throw their garbage, and factories release their effluents intothe river resulting in highly contaminated water.
6. Ganges river, India

Ganga is the most sacred river for Hindus that emerges from gangotri glacier. An estimated 2,000,000 people ritually bathe daily inthe river, inspite of being unsafe as chemical wastes, sewage and corpses remains float fearlessly across the water body.
7. Songhua river, China

The Songhua is a river in Northeast China, and is the largest tributary of the Heilong River. In November 2005, the river was contaminated with benzene, that lead to a shutdown of Harbin’s water supply.
8. The Mississippi river, USA

The Mississippi River is a major economic and natural resource for the heartland of the United States. The river drains nearly 40% of the continental United States, including its central farm lands and carries an estimated 1.5 million metric tons of nitrogen pollution into the Gulf of Mexico each year.
9. The Sarno river, Italy

The Sarno is a stream that passes through Pompeii to the south of the city of Naples. It is considered the most polluted river in Europe. The situation is aggravated by large-scale dumping of untreated agricultural and industrial waste into the river. The polluted basin waters flowing into the Bay of Naples also increase the sea water contamination.
10. The King River, Australia

The King River is arguably Australia’s most polluted river that suffers severe acidic condition related to mining operations.. About 1.5 million tonnes of sulfidic tailings enteredthe river system each year up to 1995 with total of more than 100 million tonnes until date.
This is just the end of my list of ten rivers that look ugly and are dangerous to humans around them. There are hundreds more like them lying lifeless with plastics and toxics floating above the dead water creatures and plants. We all are educated and showing ignorance towards the matter is not a wise behaviour we all know. But still we stay mumm and are happy with mineral water bottles and our water purifiers at our homes. I do not ask you to think about the world but sit and ponder about your future. How far you can convince yourself after watching the plight that the rivers have met today, that you have a safe tomorrow?