The company specializing on development of space tourism, Virgin Galactic, has presented the conceptual plane for short travel into a terrestrial orbit.
The Space Tour Transport
Transport is called SpaceShipTwo, under plans flight should begin mass flights in space in 2011 year. SpaceShipTwo can transport six passengers, the trip will last 2,5 hours. Representatives of eight hundred mass-media, the future astronauts, VIP-Persons have gathered for vehicle presentations.
Sir Richard Branson and Burt Rutan have held press conference, governors Bill Richardson and Arnold Schwarzenegger in the same place have acted. The ship has appeared before public in beams of bright light, accompanied by visually-musical show.
The given architectural decision for Hua Qiang Bei Road in the Chinese city of Shenzhen command WORKac has offered. The design project corresponds to growing commercial value and character of territory — this tendency has led to a problem of transport congestion and stoppers. Architects have suggested to make a series of strategic crossings of road.
5 Exclusive Lanterns
The project consists from “5 conceptual lanterns”, each of which has the function. Lanterns are visible from apart — by the way, during day heat they create a shade.
Night Chinese Street
Each of lanterns carries out the own social program; in one the electronic museum, in other — information centre, in other — viewing pavilion is organised. Under the earth lanterns are connected with each other, in this zone has been created four additional metro stations.
In a category of “city architecture”, within the limits of award WAN AWARDS, winners became known: building Beijing International Airport, project Foster + Partners, and plan Nordhavnen City Regenerative, project FXFOWLE. Both projects have outstripped more than hundred competitors, in a nomination of already realised buildings and objects.
City design
The constructed projects: the jury should choose 6 projects among the declared. In a nomination “city design” architectural objects in categories were accepted: "transport", "landscape", "infrastructure", "planning", "city design".
In a category of not constructed projects were accepted both under construction buildings, and conceptual projects.
Beijing International Airport by Foster + Partners
The Arish National Museum was partially damaged by Thursday’s Sinai deadly attack but none of the antiques in the museum were affected or lost, according to Head of Museum Department at the Antiquities Ministry Ahmed Sharaf Sunday.The Arish National Museum's entrance [Credit: Ahram Online]
“The museum has been closed for public since July 2013 and thus its showcases are empty. The masterpieces were transported to the antiquities ministry’s central storehouses at the start of the militant attacks in July 2013 while the other artifacts in the museum are safe in the basement of the building,” Sharaf was quoted by Youm7 Sunday.
The attack, which included mortar fire and a car bomb, has caused severe damage to the main entrance gate and the façade; one of the side buildings and several ceilings have collapsed and glass doors and windows have shattered, said Sharaf.
“The Antiquities Ministry has dispatched a technical committee to check the damage caused to the building and submit a recommendation report to save the artifacts,” he added.
A large whole at the back wall of the museum [Credit: Ahram Online]
The Arish National Museum was inaugurated by Egypt’s former first lady Suzanne Mubarak. It houses over 1,200 artifacts, discovered in the Sinai Peninsula and spanning all the eras of Egypt’s 5,000 year-old civilization.
Hisham Hussein, the head of the Sinai archaeological area, called on the Antiquities Ministry to transport all the artifacts in the museum’s basement to a safer place given that the museum is located next to the Al-Arish security directorate, a central point for militant attacks.
“I have previously called for the transfer of the artifacts at the museum following the October suicide blast, which targeted a security checkpoint in Sheikh Zuwayed and killed 30 military personnel,” said Hussein.
At least 161 artifacts of the Islamic Museum in Cairo were either totally destroyed or seriously damaged following a blast that mainly targeted the adjacent Cairo Security Directorate on Jan. 24, 2014.
Author: Rany Mostafa | Source: The Cairo Post [February 01, 2015]
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