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Pisa's leaning tower 'stabilised'

Wed, 28 May 2008 18:58:41 GMT

clipped by: JediKnut
clipper's remarks: As if to underline the success of the project, the leaning tower recently lost its title as the world's wonkiest piece of architecture to the steeple of a small church in Germany.

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Pisa's leaning tower 'stabilised'

Italy's famous leaning tower of Pisa has stopped moving for the first time in its 800-year history, engineers who have worked to stabilise it say.

The man in charge of the team monitoring the 26m euros (£20m; $40m) project says the tower should remain stable for at least another 200 years.

It took the team more than 10 years to stabilise the tower.

The work involved extracting some 70 tonnes of earth from the northern side to encourage the tower to right itself.

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The tower continued to move towards a more upright position when the work finished.

Now, though - seven years later and 48cm (19in) straighter - hi-tech monitors embedded in the soil beneath its foundations and in the tower itself show that it has stopped moving completely.

Even while it was being built, in the late 12th Century, workers noticed that it was starting to tilt. Their attempts to compensate resulted in the completed tower being very slightly bent.

Tags: pisa, architecture, leaning tower

16 of the Most Extreme & Modern Beds You’ll Ever SeeIntechi

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:23:56 GMT

clipped by: JediKnut
clipper's remarks: Read the article! Crazy beds & interesting descriptions!

Clip Source: freshome.com

16 of the Most Extreme & Modern Beds You’ll Ever See

Published March 18th, 2008 in Bedroom

Clip Source: freshome.com

Ever wanted to have a super bedroom, to amaze your friends, or your girlfriends ? If you need a little inspirational help for this task here is a collection of 16 of the most extreme & modern beds you’ll ever see. Now let’s begin ..

Private cloud looks like a giant rocking chair, or to be more exact like a rocking bed. Private cloud is not a normal bed, is something that wants to revolutionize every bedroom. The bed requires a little more space than a “normal” bed but I’m pretty sure that this bed can offer new experiences to any couple. More pictures here.

Tags: bed, architecture, strange, house, fancy

Architecture

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:59:23 GMT

clipped by: JediKnut
clipper's remarks: some really great Architecture. Worth checking out!

Clip Source: www.thecoolhunter.net

3XN - Orestad Gymnasium, Denmark

House "O" Bodrum, Turkey

The Camouflage House

Att: Architects - Submit Your Designs

Austria's Summer House

Tags: architecture

A Low Impact Woodland Home

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 08:27:26 GMT

clipped by: JediKnut
clipper's remarks: A really interesting site which tells of how a guy with barely any architectural experience, built this home with the help of just a few people, in only 4 months.
Truly amazing!

Clip Source: www.simondale.net

You are looking at pictures of our family home in Wales. It was built by myself and my father in law with help from passers by and visiting friends. 4 months after starting we were moved in and cosy. I estimate 1000-1500 man hours and £3000 put in to this point. Not really so much in house buying terms (roughly £60/sq m excluding labour).

The house was built with maximum regard for the environment and by reciprocation gives us a unique opportunity to live close to nature. Being your own (have a go) architect is a lot of fun and allows you to create and enjoy something which is part of yourself and the land rather than, at worst, a mass produced box designed for maximum profit and convenience of the construction industry. Building from natural materials does away with producers profits and the cocktail of carcinogenic poisons that fill most modern buildings.

Tags: architecture, home, house, building, diy, ecology