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It's an architecture that comes with a variety of names: vernacular, transient, tensile, liquid, primitive, nomadic. It doesn't have to mean that a building is transportable, only that it can be moved in meaningful, and preferably reversible, ways.
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Centuries before modern-day fabulists like Jayson Blair and James Frey, there was George Psalmanazar, an ersatz historian who took creative license to a new level. When he arrived in London in 1703, Psalmanazar presented himself as a native of Formosa (now known as Taiwan) who had been kidnapped and taken to Europe by Christian missionaries.
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Dutch artist Tinkebell gets lots of hate-mail, so now she's turned the tables on the senders: by using some clever Internet sleuthing, Tinkebell uncovered the identities behind the e-mails, and compiled them in a book with their names, addresses, (naked) photographs, LinkedIn accounts, phone numbers, Facebook pages, and more.
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Collecting the garbage becomes a one-man operation: the truck pulls up, attaches a cable to the container, lifts it up, turns it over, and puts it back into the ground, an eight-minute process that also does away with mistossed bags splattering in the street.
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Businesses have been clamoring for ICANN - the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers - to open new address possibilities, complaining that existing top-level domains led by ".com" and ".org" are overcrowded.
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Instead of trying to conceal the source of the projected image, Barba transforms it into the centre of attention through a labyrinth of film loops that slink across the space via a network of wheels and pulleys, physically enveloping the viewer and turning the viscous spaghetti of 35mm celluloid into moving sculpture.
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Despite humans' big brains and seemingly infinite storage space, when we think back to an old memory it's usually not hi-res video we conjure up but rather a still image, fuzzy around the edges and hard to keep in place.
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The Fluid Vehicle bus station in the corporate-campus town of Hoofddorp, Netherlands, is a 130-meter-long blob of foam blocks — and the world’s largest synthetic building.
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The success of the London Eye has reinvigorated demand for Ferris wheels, with new “observation wheels” recently opening or being built in Malaysia, Singapore, and Australia, with others planned for Berlin, Dubai, and Beijing. And like with skyscrapers, a heated competition is under way for the world’s tallest.
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Though Rotterdam plays host to weighty institutions, many local artists indicate that they nonetheless go abut their work much as artists do in cities that don’t boast such a rich cultural infrastructure.
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It had all the markings of a television detective show. Posing as patients, three undercover observers got themselves admitted as patients to a locked psychiatric ward to investigate conditions on the inside. And a remote team monitored the project via hidden cameras and microphones from a command center in a nearby hotel.
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Virtual volunteers at an aid network known as Nabuur give people in the developing world advice on projects like how to start a youth computer-training center, improve local water quality, or better integrate the village's disabled people. The assumption is that small communities can carry out many public-works projects by themselves if provided with the right information.
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Controlling objects with just your thoughts has been a dream of sci-fi from “Star Trek” to Star Wars, but in the past few years that dream has inched closer to reality.
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The scam has existed for years in various forms, but in the 1990s it moved online, where it is cheaper to organize and harder to trace.
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The low-tech graveyards where ships are picked apart by hand could give way to a greener, more high-tech alternative.
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