Ecology

The "horizontal" residential complex in Singapore that challenges skyscrapers with a honeycomb structure

The “horizontal” residential complex in Singapore that challenges skyscrapers with a honeycomb structure

An image of The Interlace residential complex in Singapore. The Interlacein Singapore, represents one of the most interesting and ambitious architectural expressions of the 21st century. Designed by Ole Scheeren for theOffice for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), the complex radically challenges the typology of the isolated vertical skyscraper, instead conceiving the private home within multilevel modules, with a very interesting use ...

Works of art stolen by the Nazis: from the Monuments Men and Women to the Orsay Museum exhibition in Paris

Works of art stolen by the Nazis: from the Monuments Men and Women to the Orsay Museum exhibition in Paris

American GIs hand–carry paintings down the steps of the Neuschwanstein castle under the supervision of Capt. James Rorimer. NARA photo– 239–RC–14–5 The Musée d’Orsay in Paris, which houses the world’s largest collection of impressionist and post-impressionist art, has inaugurated a new room dedicated to works of art stolen by the Nazis during World War II and never claimed. And there ...

When MotoGP was raced on the street, from 55 to 300 horsepower: the evolution from 1949 to today

When MotoGP was raced on the street, from 55 to 300 horsepower: the evolution from 1949 to today

Generated with AI What would a rider of the 1950s have thought when he saw a Ducati Desmosedici speeding at over 360 km/h on the Mugello straight? The Motorcycle World Championship has existed, in its form, since 1949. In over seventy years, this sport has transformed radically: motorbikes have become technological prototypes 300 horsepoweri circuits have evolved to protect the ...

What is a brick and concrete floor, the most used structure for building floors: types and characteristics

What is a brick and concrete floor, the most used structure for building floors: types and characteristics

Image created with AI. We rarely think about what’s beneath our feet when we walk inside our homes. Yet the atticthe horizontal element that divides one plane from another, is among gods most important components of the entire building. Among the various construction technologies, the most widespread in Italy from the 1950s onwards is the brick-cement slab: a structure that ...

What is the difference between red ladybugs, yellow ladybugs and Asian Harlequins

What is the difference between red ladybugs, yellow ladybugs and Asian Harlequins

Generated with AI You find a ladybug on the windowsill and immediately think “lucky”. But if that ladybug is yellow and black, or orange with lots of dots, you’re probably not looking at the classic Coccinella septempunctata (the common ladybug with 7 points), but another species. And in one case out of two it is the Asian harlequin ladybug (Harmonia ...

Mushrooms, pineapple and algae: the Next-Gen materials for sustainable fashion, would replace leather and cotton

Mushrooms, pineapple and algae: the Next-Gen materials for sustainable fashion, would replace leather and cotton

Generated with AI Give it to him pineapple scraps an alternative skin is born, from mushroom mycelium flexible and resistant materials are obtained, and even i bacteria they are used to produce silk-like protein fibers. These are the so-called Next-Gen materialsnew generation fabrics that promise to revolutionize the textile industry. But why do we need this revolution so urgently? The ...

Google's search bar changes forever after 25 years: how AI search works

Google’s search bar changes forever after 25 years: how AI search works

New Google search bar. Credit: Google. The historic blank page of Google is experiencing the most radical transformation of its 25-year history. The old paradigm of keywords typed one by one seems to belong to a completely different era. During the last one Google I/Oheld a few days ago, the Mountain View company presented a search bar – what allows ...