Do you wish to lead your life in best location of the world with environmental, commercial, cultural, leisure and civic aspirations? If yes, then Madinat Al Hareer also known as the City of Silk can make your dreams come true. The city is planned to provide accommodation to more than 700,000 people and can come up with 430,000 new jobs. It will be connected to Kuwait City by a New Bay Bridge and joining with new Arabian Bay Port. This city will endow with everything together with business, culture, leisure, National Park and Wildlife Reserve. This place is going to be an emerald necklace of lakes and parks like ribbons of silk, interweave and intertwine.
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Are you are running a business and really tired of keeping safely all the business cards? If yes, then WorldCard Ultra designed by PenPower can help you out in this. It is an amazing data entry gadget for you as it is known as a handy-dandy business card reader. You just need to stick a card in the slot and this cool gadget does the rest. It maintains an address book and has a multiple language support. Now you do not need to take care of several business cards because everything will be stored in your WorldCard Ultra.
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Avery Holleman has developed a PC design that can turn out to be a very useful tool on your conference tables. Named as Napkin PC, the design resembles a Napkin holder, which combines multiple touch screen devices within a collaborative network. The digital pens which are a part of the device allow the users to draw on the touch screens what you would do with a pen on a napkin. As per the designer, the reason for creating the concept was to enable users to interact with any number of interfaces connected in the same network. Of course this is one napkin wherein one won’t feel embarrassed keeping notes. We already discussed some of Next Gen PC Design finalists, such as : Siafu PC Design, Zen PC, Yuno, Momenta Neck PC, The Cup, CLEF and TRVL, and the winner goes to Napkin PC Concept, congratulation Avery!
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Competing against Daniel Libeskind and Massimiliano Fuksas, Zaha Hadid Architects have won the competition held by Guggenheim Hermitage Museum in Vilnius, Lithuania. Zaha Hadid’s futuristic designs match the cultural aims of the new Hermitage Guggenheim Vilnius Project. As always, the characteristic of Zaha Hadid architectural design always takes the conceptual terms of fluidity, velocity and lightness. The building appears like a mystical object floating above the extensive artificial landscape strip, seemingly defying gravity by exposing dramatic undercuts towards the surrounding entrance plazas. Large activated green fields flow around the museums sculptural mass, underlining its enigmatic presence with curvilinear lines echoing the elongated contours of the building. Contrasting with the vertical business district skyline it is a manifestation of Vilnius’ new cultural significance.
“I am delighted to be working in Vilnius on the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum” states Hadid. “The city will be the European Capital of Culture in 2009 and has a long history of art patronage. With such an interest in the arts, Vilnius will continue to develop as a cultural center where the connection between culture and public life is critical. This museum will be a place where you can experiment with the idea of galleries, spatial complexity and movement.”
This is exactly what we mean by saying “when architecture meets new technologies”.
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