The Escola Bressol Nursery by Batlle i Roig Arquitectes is a child friendly building and environment located in Barcelona, Spain. This industrial style building sits on an extra piece of land at the recently finished Malaga Gardens. Outdoor enclosed spaces provide areas for playing and simple gardening while the interior is colorful and inviting for young children. Outdoor play space is not only limited to the ground floor, but rather every floor has an enclosed safe area to enjoy fresh air....

Feng Shui Bedroom Layout From feng shui principles to the layout of the room, we’ve got all the relevant information so you can promote positive energy in one of the most important rooms of the house. When it comes to bedroom feng shui, the layout of your furniture is fundamental. The furniture layout quickly promotes relaxation and harmony within a room, and the most crucial piece of furniture to focus on is your bed....

Italian architects Carlo Santambrogio and Ennio Arosic of Santambrogio created two homes made primarily of blue hued glass. Even the bed frames and tables of the homes are constructed out of glass creating a fluid line of vision in the structures. The clarity of the glass enables home dwellers to feel submersed in the beautiful natural surroundings that the houses are located in. Subtle gestures, clean lines and a minimalist approach make these unique homes modern marvels....

Heynsdyk 2500 SF – Rarity is a very special value in the world of automobiles. For every cookie cutter Camry and omnipresent SUV, finding uniquity in a car can be a difficult challenge. The Heynsdyk 2500 SF bears a brand you may never have heard of, producing a sports car you may never have seen. Its design is at once classic and contemporary, a fusion of influences from the BMW Z roadster to the Weismann Roadster and the classic racers of the 1940’s and 50’s....

This style was a sporting jacket that came about in the 19th century, and it was originally called a ‘reefer jacket’ because of its nautical background, not because wearers liked to get high. Thanks to the Duke of Windsor the double-breasted jacket eventually became acceptable for wear to all occasions, and eventually was adopted in the 30’s and 40’s by crime kingpins and bankers – which are just crime kingpins with better titles....

You’ve invested your time and resources to pull off an impressive beard, so beardruff should be the last thing to spoil the party. Good news though! You don’t need to suffer in silence anymore. We’ll shortly uncover the causes and the most effective ways to conquer beardruff. Keep reading to learn more. Beardruff in a Nutshell Beardruff, aka beard dandruff, forms from a buildup of dead skin cells on the skin beneath the beard....

The new hydroelectric power station replaces a 1950s model in Kempton, Germany. The system augments the flow of the river below it to generate enough power to feed 3,000 homes with a total 10.5 million kilowatt–hours of electricity. Roughly half of the population of Kempton is fed by this new power plant, giving those residents the right to boast a sustainably-sourced lifestyle. The sculptural nature of Becker Architecture’s design has a greater value than the functional process alone....

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The new Leica X Vario is in a similar class to the Fuji X100S (featured: 5 best travel cameras of 2013), the Nikon Coolpix A and other Micro 4/3rds cameras from Olympus, Panasonic and others. Its lens is hard-mounted, meaning that future upgrades to wide/telephoto options will not be available. Yet for a camera brand that has long focused on a “less is more” philosophy, this fixed offering should not come as a surprise....

Subwoofers are fortunate items to buy cheaply, because they can so often be hidden that they don’t need to look good. You can also pack a respectable amount of bump into a fairly compact package, so there’s little need to spend for size. The problem with looking at the more demure end of the cost spectrum isn’t so much that there aren’t any good choices, as there’s too many options that try to supplant precision with raw power....

Let’s revisit his impact on racial justice by recounting the best remembered (and most controversial) Malcolm X quotes. You can also check out the best Dalai Lama quotes and Tupac quotes for more inspirational sayings! Biography Born Malcolm Little in 1925, Malcolm X (as he’d become known later in life) had a difficult upbringing. Between the loss of both parents, the crushing poverty of the Great Depression, and foster care, his early life was shaped by tragedy and displacement....

The XF is a new modular body/back combo that is capable of 80 megapixel still photography with 14-stops of dynamic range. That’s the kind of resolution and flexibility that commercial photographers — from fashion to automotive to architecture — demand in a medium format camera. It might seem like overkill to a photography enthusiast, but what sweet, sweet overkill it is. The Phase One XF is a special kind of beast....

Over the last century of automotive design, vehicle cabins have been mostly laid out in a 2-by-2 arrangement. All eyes faced forward, and the driver had both hands on the wheel at all times. When the driver is no longer driving the car, however, the need for the traditional layout is no longer necessary. Mercedes has focused on this by allowing the front row seats to swivel and face back into the cabin....

The Japanese design brand O-E-Y have produced a new set of chopsticks and dining accessories in bright, living color. The Mutsumi Hashi Chopsticks are a range of chopsticks wrapped in colored Japanese paper twine and silk. The are bound on their non-business end with a stylish loop, ensuring your pair does not get separated. Along with these chopsticks are a set of napkin holders, wine markers and more that enjoy the same styling sensibility, with bright loops of color adding a nice accent to your next meal....

Producing these aerial photographs of New York was no small feat. Vincent Laforet used the most advanced photographic gear available, plus the services of a helicopter for flyover angles. To capture such crisp, clean images at night, Laforet used cameras that can produce high quality in low light situations. Specifically, he used a Canon 1Dx and a Mamiya Leaf Credo 50 MP back, a pair that can yield crisp images at high sensitivity settings....

A few months ago I was invited to Paris by pentahotel to participate in the ground opening of their new hotel located in Roissy-en-France and very close to the CDG airport. This came in as a surprise. I was a pentahotel customer (already) who was constantly staying with them in Vienna. So I thought “wow, this is going to be a nice experience”. For those who don’t know, the pentahotel experience (what I was experiencing in Vienna was v2) is all about a high end design with industrial accents and coziness....

Though purists and the pretentious will try to sell you on single malt only, by going the blended route you open up the possibilities of more flavor combinations, such as a peaty Islay whipped together with a grassy lowland for a span of tastes that sweep you across Scotland. The choices and effects are immense in blended scotches, which is why everyone should take a moment to mix it up with the 16 best blended scotch options out there....

The Saigon House features a collection of built spaces that climb throughout the alley walls. Take the walls away, and Saigon House might look like a treehouse of sorts. Each individual “hut” is connected by a stairwell, and the empty space between them is a deliberate section of the design. Toward the rear of the home, a four-story courtyard occupies a slender open channel from the floor to the canopy roof....

Illustrator and typography artist Seb Lester has revealed a series of limited-edition prints of some of his greatest type-focused illustrations. While widely known for his penning of the Soho Gothic font family, its what he has done with his own font designs that have earned him the most respect. This series of prints showcases his ability to develop finely detailed fonts into expressive works of art– certainly not without a sense of humor as well....