Vertigo sufferers can now push their fears right over the edge in the tallest skyscraper in the Western Hemisphere.

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An extraordinary piece of architecture and engineering, this 80 story building scheduled for completion in 2010 should really make people think differently.  The tower, located in Dubai, will house 20 floors of retail space, 15 floors for an extravagant hotel and the remaining floors for residential apartments with the top 10 floors set aside for luxury villas of up to 12,900 square feet in size.

Designed by Italian architect Dr. David Fisher the tower will rotate to benefit from the sun and adapt to the wind. It even generates it’s own energy by cleverly integrating 79 wind turbines between floors and using photovoltaic cells on the roof of each floor.

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This work was done in Bocchignano, Italy, a village close to Rome, as part of the group project “20 Eventi”. The group of artists developed projects for 4 villages of the Sabina region and decided to create a compilation of drawings, for collectors to purchase, and to support this project.

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Here in Guernsey there is very little outdoor advertising, no large scale billboards, few posters, in fact very little beyond store fronts is vying for your eyes attention. The only regularly seen advert I can remember is the annual drink-driving campaign around Christmas time. This is in total contrast to the world major cities, so imagine São Paulo, a bustling metropolis of 11 million people, with over 8000 billboards. Now imagine that city being stripped of advertising. No Posters. No flyers. No ads on buses. No ads on trains. No Adshels, no 48-sheets, no nothing.

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The humble Lego brick, the toy that builds toys and the plastic seed of architects everywhere. Fifty years ago the Lego company put forward the patent for the plastic lego brick. The interlocking pieces with their stud-and-tube system was to prove ‘Toy of the Century’. Since that day 400,000,000,000 Lego elements have been made which have been incorporated into many different Lego World genres. These include Space, Knights, Pirates, Town, Oceanic and recently film theme Lego like Batman, Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Harry Potter. Personally Pirate and Space Lego were my favourite types, the Pirate ship Barracuda being the ultimate boxed Lego contruction.

There is an American artist who’s medium is the nobbly brick, his name is Nathan Sawaya. He is one of only a few official Lego artists, his work is currently touring America in an show entitled ‘The Art of the Brick’.

Moscow planners have approved Lord Foster’s design for the world’s biggest building. The British architect’s £2bn “city within a city”, Crystal Island, will be built on the banks of the Moscow river, with a total floor area of 2.5 million square metres, making it the largest enclosed space ever to be constructed. This is approximately equal to twice the area of Herm Island, Guernsey!

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