Category: SHELTER
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Driven to Explore: Touch The Moon
Touch The Moon At Wyoming’s Big Show. Wyomingites will have the rare chance to touch a nearly 4-billion-year-old piece of moon rock at NASA’s Driven to Explore traveling exhibit, a multimedia experience that immerses visitors in the story of NASA. The centerpiece of Driven to Explore is the opportunity to touch a lunar rock sample…
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Graffiti artists took over Luxury London hotel
Luxury London hotel hands over marble walls to graffiti artists. Thierry Noir, BRK, RUN, Christiaan Nagel and Zomby, five strong artist line up from the worlds of graffiti and street art, took over luxury hotel ME London on the Strand. Organized by Street Art London, the five internationally renowned Italian, British, South African and Spanish…
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We sit starving amidst our gold
In the British Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale, the world’s most prestigious art festival, UK artist Jeremy Deller has provoked controversy and ignited social debate by presenting an installation of the Wende Museum‘s significant collection of early post-Soviet stock vouchers, privatization certificates, and Ponzi scheme coupons that dominated alternative currencies of the early 1990s…
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Windows to generate electricity while still allowing people to see outside
UCLA researchers announced the creation of highly transparent solar cells for windows that generate electricity. UCLA researchers have developed a new transparent solar cell that is an advance toward giving windows in homes and other buildings the ability to generate electricity while still allowing people to see outside. “These results open the potential for visibly…
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Andrée Putman-signed Hine bottles released for €10,000
Baccarat’s €10,000 crystal decanter for Hine cognac house. In 2005, the late French designer Andree Putman paid a discreet visit to Jarnac, in the Charente department in southwestern France. She accepted to imagine a decanter to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Hine Cognac maker to the Queen. The decanter, described as a vessel of elegance…
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Luxury Collection Hotel debuts in Ukraine with Hotel Bristol Odessa
Starwood debuts in Ukraine with Hotel Bristol, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Odessa. Luxury hospitality chain Starwood hopes to play a leading role in Odessa and Ukrainian’s luxury market segment with the opening of Hotel Bristol, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Odessa. Odessa is the fifth largest city in Ukraine and is renowned for its seaport…