Steven Holl Architects have finished building of the multipurpose complex consisting of eight towers connected among themselves.
The project has been named by the Best High-rise Building 2009 in Asia and Australia in competition which has taken place under home nursing Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. In a complex premises, hotel, a cinema, a children's garden, school, an underground parking, the commercial areas, public park are provided.
Eight towers are connected among themselves by a series of high-rise bridges which, by analogy to skyscrapers, have been named “skybridges”.
Architects hope, that this project will award Gold LEED Gold Certification, as the largest "green" multipurpose building. Geothermal wells under the base provide with depth of 100 metres heating in the winter and cooling in the summer.
The pond in the complex centre will detain the processed water used in buildings, in the winter a pond will freeze and turn to a skating rink.
Designer Hafsteinn Juliusson from the fantastic country of Iceland has thought up a collection of jewels with the inlaid grass. Giving such product favourite, it is possible to think up a beautiful legend — that for this purpose that the ring has remained, it demands careful and a permanent care — as well as your best feelings…
Live Growing Jewelry
The collection has received the corresponding name — Growing Jewelry, each subject is made manually of silver. The designer guarantees, that, at appropriate leaving, the grass remains green within 12 weeks.
According to the author, this project — redefinition of actual values, a certain hybrid of gardening, a fashion and a life, a live organism.
The collection is intended for inhabitants of the big cities who become more and more torn off by nature. Jewels from a collection will be accessible in the limited series.
Sarah Silverman wet the bed until she was a teenager, and from that humiliation she gained some of the emotional insight she needed to become a comedian.The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee
chronicles her younger years as a bedwetter and her adult years as a comedian. She is forthcoming about her faults, but since she often writes from the persona she creates for her stand-up we know we're not necessarily getting all of Silverman. The book is laugh out loud funny at times but Silverman still manages to make you think about race and tolerance.
The book seems to be a little confused about what it wants to be. Is it a memoir? An essay collection? Humor writing? I think it's some hybrid of the three. The book isn't as funny as her stand-up and at times feels more heartfelt. She makes the move to ask serious reflexive questions, but then she drops them and keeps moving to the next chapter. I wish she would have explored some of her questions more but it seemed like she didn't feel comfortable being truly reflexive, which is why this book doesn't really work as a memoir or an essay collection.
While the form was confusing and possibly incomplete, I found that I enjoyed the book simply because it was quick and funny. Silverman is a great storyteller and she has quite a few stories worth telling. I also loved how she played with the idea of a book by writing her own foreword, midword, and afterword. Yes, you read that right, midword. Halfway through the book she interjects, addresses the audience directly to ask what they think so far, and then moves forward with the rest of the book. She also makes the reader hyper-aware that this is a book and not everything in it is necessarily true but adding email conversations highlighting this. Of course then we're forced to ask if the email conversations are true either.
I read the ebook version of this and I was a little frustrated with how small some of the images were. She has scanned images from her childhood diaries but you can't even read them on the ebook version. I'm unsure of how they look in the actual book, but I'm fairly certain they are at the very least legible.
I give The Bedwetter a C.
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