ARCHITECTURE.

Fans of Vitra’s Home Collection will appreciate their new showroom in Weil Am Rhein, Germany. Designed by Jacques Herzon and Pierre de Meuron, the stacked structure beams eccentricity and quirky modernism.

Design Boom got a first look and discusses the concept: “The concept of the ‘Vitrahaus’ connects two themes which are occurring in the architectural practice of Herzog & De Meuron: the theme of the archetypal house and that of stacked volumes. the five-story structure is comprised of 12 ‘houses’ – five houses are set at the base in which seven other houses are stacked upon one another. Each of the structural volumes appear as if they have been shaped by an extrusion press and are cantilevered up to 15 metres in some places. The floor slabs intersect the underlying gables, resulting in a three-dimensional assemblage or ‘pile of houses’.” Click Read More for additional information and photos.

COOLHUNTER ON VITRAHAUS
COOLHUNTING ON VITRAHAUS
DESIGN BOOM ON VITRAHAUS

LIGHTS AT BRIGHTON WEST PIER
MVRDV’S WATER CUBE
ISTANBUL’S BESIKTAS FISH MARKET

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GLOBAL NEWS.

This week’s global outlook reports on Central California’s unique source for energy; JFK Airport’s major runway closings; Chile’s difficult rescue among wrecked roads and bridges; Russia’s Silicon Valley; and China’s chosen Tibetan Leader. Click Read More for the full report.

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“Central California is home to nearly 1.6 million dairy cows and their manure—up to 192 million pounds per day. It’s a mountain of waste and a potential environmental hazard. But for dairyman John Fiscalini, the dung on his farm is renewable gold: He’s converting it into electricity…”

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“New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport isn’t exactly the poster child for on-time departures and things may get worse before they get better for travelers using the airport this spring. Starting Monday, JFK’s busiest runway will close for four months for reconstruction…”

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“Rescue workers and government troops struggled Monday to reach earthquake-ravaged corners of Chile still cut off by crumbled roads, fallen bridges and downed telephone lines. Meanwhile, the Chilean government asked the United Nations for emergency assistance to cope with the widespread devastation wrought by one of the most powerful earthquakes in recorded history…”

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“The Kremlin wants to engineer its own Silicon Valley. In a plan that was revealed in February, the Russian high-tech haven will come complete with new-wave architecture and all the comforts of a resort, a place for Russian geniuses to get together and invent the biggest thing since, well, the Internet. That’s the hope, anyway…”

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“China’s handpicked Panchen Lama, the teenage religious figure whose legitimacy is a matter of dispute among many Tibetan Buddhists, has been appointed to the country’s top advisory body, the state media have announced…”

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GLOBAL NEWS.

This week’s global outlook reports on New Haitian Settlements, Lufthansa’s Flight Cancellations, South Africa’s Reopened Social Wounds, Bangkok’s Pigeon Problems and the Snitch in your Pocket. Click Read More for the full report.

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“Amid all the furor over the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program a few years ago, a mini-revolt was brewing over another type of federal snooping that was getting no public attention at all. Federal prosecutors were seeking what seemed to be unusually sensitive records: internal data from telecommunications companies that showed the locations of their customers’ cell phones—sometimes in real time, sometimes after the fact. The prosecutors said they needed the records to trace the movements of suspected drug traffickers, human smugglers, even corrupt public officials. But many federal magistrates—whose job is to sign off on search warrants and handle other routine court duties—were spooked by the requests…”

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“At the foot of rocky hills north of Haiti’s earthquake-shattered capital Port-au-Prince, new settlements are sprouting as survivors flee the claustrophobic, rubble-clogged chaos of the stricken city…”

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“Pilots at Lufthansa, one of of the world’s largest airlines, went on strike Monday, grounding hundreds of flights per day, a spokeswoman for the airline told CNN. The four-day walkout by Vereinigung Cockpit, the pilots’ union, came after a last-ditch effort at negotiations over pay and job security failed, the company said…”

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“South Africa has erased apartheid from its statute books, but the racist schemes of white minority rule remain engraved on the landscape in an extreme form of residential segregation. Millions of blacks still live in townships far from centers of commerce and employment. Those with jobs, like Mrs. Hanong, must endure commutes that devour their time and meager incomes, while legions of jobless people are isolated from opportunity…”

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“Officials are tired of the huge numbers of birds at the Sanam Luang grounds in the Thai capital. But plans to send them to forests in other provinces have met with resistance. Not the least from bird-seed sellers.”

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GLOBAL NEWS.

This week’s global outlook reports on Bixi’s Multi-City Bike Sharing Success; Denmark’s Lead in the Electric Car Race; The LA Times’ Photo Essay of the 2010 Winter Olympics; Beijing’s National Stadium; and the Ivory Coast’s Presidential Woes. Click Read More for the full report.

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We’ve been glued to the TV watching the winter olympics. As usual there are the stories of tradition, courage, defeat and victory. For a glimpse of the Olympic’s colorful spirit view these pics by Robert Gauthier and Wally Skalij…

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Good Magazine spotlights Montreal’s Bixi Bike Sharing program and its overall success. “Montreal’s Bixi bike sharing system has been really successful (in terms of volume of rides, at least). Compared to some of the other bike sharing programs we’ve covered, it’s very high tech…”

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More presidential woes for the Ivory Coast. “Ivory Coast’s opposition declared Saturday that it would no longer support President Laurent Gbagbo, a move expected to complicate his efforts to form a new government…”

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Denmark is making a run for the lead in the Electric Car Race. “An electric-car race is under way in Europe and countries are rushing out their plans for the future — each one more ambitious than the last — in an effort to prove who’s the greenest of them all. Spain aims to have 1 million electric or hybrid cars on the road by 2014 (though it hasn’t specified how many of each). Britain is trying to persuade Japanese automaker Nissan to make its Sunderland plant the European base for its little electric car the Leaf, and London plans to have 25,000 charging stations hooked up to the grid by 2015. France has put big money into building a countrywide network of charging stations, as well as a plant to produce electric-car batteries. Not to be left out, Portugal is gearing up to be one of the first markets for Renault-Nissan’s electric cars in 2011…”

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From one Olympics to the next. “Reporting from Beijing – Beijing is hosting its own version of the Winter Olympics—though the idea may be on thin ice. Inside the architectural wonder of the capital’s National Stadium, children on rubber doughnuts race on the snow. Teenagers and adults slide slowly down a low ski slope. In the background, a band plays ‘90s Chinese rock on a stage flanked by fake snow peaks. The snow park is the latest effort to create a new life for the stadium, known as the Bird’s Nest…”

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GLOBAL NEWS.

This week’s global outlook reports on Missile Silo Confessions; Gays in the Armed Forces; Chavez on the Defense; the Ukrainian Opposition’s teeth-tight Election Win; and why China doesn’t care about America. Click Read More for the full report.

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Wired magazine has an interesting feature about life near Missile Silos. As they report: “Deep in the barren Sonoran Desert in the summer of 2008, Drew Reeves drove a back-hoe fourteen feet into the earth. That was as far as he could go before having to hire help and an Excavator — a construction vehicle with a giant mechanical shovel on the end of a huge boom arm. After pulling out huge blocks of concrete and piles of dirt from the hole, the Excavator operator got a little overzealous. He stretched that boom way too far out and down he went, said Reeves. Many abandoned nuclear missile sites are now owned by regular citizens trying to find a function for them.”

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The Economist looks at early steps in repealing a controversial discriminatory policy. “It was Barry Goldwater, a Republican politician, who pointed out that to serve in the armed forces, you don’t have to be straight. You only have to shoot straight. Barack Obama agrees. In his state-of-the-union speech on January 27th, Mr Obama renewed his campaign pledge to end Don’t ask, don’t tell, the 1993 law that bars openly gay people from serving…”

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In Venezuela, Chavez is feeling the heat. “No event on the sporting calendar gets Venezuelans more animated than the rivalry between the country’s two largest baseball teams, the Lions of Caracas and the Navigators of Magallanes, based in Valencia. But this season’s championship series had an extra — and unexpected — ingredient thrown into the mix: politics. During the seven-game play-off, fans displayed banners bearing the slogan: “One, two, three. Electricity, water, crime. President — you’ve struck out!”

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The Ukrainian Opposition squeezes in a win. “Opposition leader, Viktor F. Yanukovich, appeared on Monday to have won a narrow victory in Ukraine’s presidential election, according to nearly complete results, giving him an unlikely comeback from his humiliating defeat in the 2004 Orange Revolution, when he was shunned as a bumbling Kremlin sidekick.”

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Newsweek posts an interesting article about China’s lost interest in the US. “China’s America watchers have fallen on tough times. Back in their profession’s glory days, in the 1980s and ‘90s, they were able to spend years in the United States learning about the place, and both Washington and Beijing were eager for them to report home on what they’d discovered in the New World. Chinese leaders were trying to integrate their vast country into a world system dominated by America, and they took particular interest in how Washington viewed their country. But now U.S. funding for stateside field work has dried up, and Beijing shows little interest in the United States except to complain, threaten, or refuse to work together on global problems.”

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CHINA’S RUN FOR CLEAN ENERGY

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ART.

Kuntzel + Deygas have an impressive catalog of work. The first time we saw their designs we were at colette viewing the store’s latest window installation. Ever since then we’ve followed them around the globe admiring their work. From larger then life decals on the side of airplanes to more subtle window treatments, you’ll instantly fall in love with their signature characters, Caperino & Peperone.

Recently, the duo opened an exhibition at the Joyce Gallery in Paris. Photographer, NBP, took a few photos of the installation. Definitely check it out if you’re in the area. If not, you can view the show courtesy of Hypebeast and NBP’s excellent photography.

Location Details

Joyce Gallery
168 Galerie Valois
75001 Paris
France

Kuntzel + Deygas Exhibition @ Joyce Gallery
NBP Photography

THE ALL OF EVERYTHING
WALLPAPER DESIGN AWARDS 2010
WHO IS THIS CITY AGENCY NAMED BNE?

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GOOD IDEAS.

Manhattan’s morning commute is brutal amid construction. Back to back cars, jackhammers, clouds of dust and makeshift detours are a formula for instant frustration. Construction zones and the urban grid do not mix in function nor form. And, according to the Alliance for Downtown New York, Manhattan construction is increasing. An estimated $30 billion worth of new development is underway at nearly 200 sites below Canal Street.

In an effort to beautify these sites, the Alliance for Downtown New York is partnering with city officials and companies to integrate art projects within the construction zones. While it doesn’t take care of the need for better traffic patterns, it does enhance the visual blight presented by numerous construction sites across the city. As the NY Times reports: ”’The area is experiencing construction fatigue and, for a lot of people, it’s been a jarring experience,’ said Elizabeth H. Berger, president of the alliance. ‘At the end of the day while these are improvements that advance Lower Manhattan, in the short term it’s tough.’ The construction potentially affects about 314,000 people who work in the area, 54,000 who live there and more than 5 million who visit the area every year.” We think the project is fantastic for the city. It’s a notable innovation for an often overlooked problem. Click Read More for additional information.

Bringing Some Whimsy to Construction Sites
Alliance for Downtown New York

FULTON STREET NYC
NEW BIKE TRANSIT CENTER AT UNION STATION
BEAUTIFY THE CITY WITH TRASH

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NEWS: This week’s global outlook reports on Obama’s Nobel Remarks, Copenhagen’s model for urban landscapes, Berlusconi’s attack, Iran’s trial of American Hikers, and Hong Kong’s move toward Localization. Click Read More for the full report.

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Obama has a tough road ahead. How will he navigate the criticism, scrutiny and unexpected challenges? If you missed his Noble Peace Prize speech, the NY Times has the transcripts posted online: “I receive this honor with deep gratitude and great humility. It is an award that speaks to our highest aspirations—that for all the cruelty and hardship of our world, we are not mere prisoners of fate. Our actions matter, and can bend history in the direction of justice.”

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We’ve seen our fair share of bike friendly cities. None compete with Copenhagen. “The world is gathered in Copenhagen for the U.N. climate summit, but Denmark`s bicycle-friendly capital has also given its name to a movement of cities trying to find a kinder way to commute…”

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Friend or Foe, it’s getting hot in Italy. Political divisions grow as Berlusconi comes under physical attack. “The prime minister remains hospitalized after being hit in the face with a statuette. His foes see him as the source of the country’s problems; his allies see him as the source of its solutions.”

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American Hikers face espionage charges in Iranian court. As CNN reports: “Three American hikers held in Iran will be put on trial, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki told the country’s semi-official Fars News Agency on Monday.”

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A trouble global economy is forcing a deglobalization. “The fact that China’s smart money is now looking inward and avoiding the sector that brought it so much growth in recent years highlights a new trend that is likely to continue and spread next year. For the past few decades, goods, services, and people have been whizzing around the world at ever-greater speeds and over ever-greater distances. The presumption was that this was the most efficient way to organize the globe’s economic affairs. But a backlash has set in, motivated by economics, politics, and the shift of wealth from West to East. As a result, it seems we are now experiencing a round of deglobalization.”

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EVENTS: BNE. What does it stand for? It’s a mystery and who’s behind it even more so. You’ve probably seen the ubiquitous postcard-sized stickers if you’ve been to New York City, San Francisco or Tokyo. When we first saw them we thought they were city sanctioned – maybe a city agency or something. But then we saw them too often and noticed they were increasingly placed in more and more daring areas.

The New York Times has an interesting article on the person behind BNE. In all its ninja-style-secrecy the identity of BNE is hidden. But, despite the anonymity, BNE will be on display tonight in Manhattan sponsored by Mother an advertising agency.

As the Times reports: “This mischievous monogram, posted by marker, spray can, roller and especially stickers, has become part of the landscape of New York and cities worldwide, thrilling graffiti admirers and roiling public officials. Its saturation has provoked one of the more enduring Internet mysteries: What and who is B.N.E.?” Click Read More for additional information and photos.

Location Details

BNE Show
595 11th Avenue (near 44th Street)
Manhattan, New York

NY Times on BNE
Mother Advertising Agency

PROGRESSION BY DAN FLAVIN
GENEVIÈVE GAUCKLER’S LONDON DEBUT
A SQUARE BY HOSANG PARK

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NEWS: This week’s global outlook reports on Google’s real-time search; Obama’s efforts to spur jobs; the UK’s severe flooding; Europe’s road trains; and a victory claimed by both candidates in Romania. Click Read More for the full report.

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More exciting developments from the Google labs. Google added a new feature to keep up with the real time nature of citizen journalism. “Google announced Monday the fruits of its earlier deal with Twitter, showing off how it has decided to present real-time Internet content within search results.”

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With a buffet of issues to tackle, Barack Obama prepares his plan against joblessness. “Tomorrow President Barack Obama will lay out policy proposals to combat double-digit unemployment in a speech tackling an economic problem that has become a political drain on his young administration.”

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Severe flooding hits the UK. Time Magazine has an informative piece on the events, “Emergency rescue workers float past a ‘Merry Christmas’ sign as they try and rescue residents stranded by floods in Cockermouth, in Cumbria, northwest England. Water levels reached just over 8 ft. (2.5 m) as more than 200 people have been evacuated. The Environment Agency said the scale of the flooding was unprecedented.”

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Imagine your car being a part of a road train. Well it might happen. “It goes by the name ‘Sartre,’ but it has nothing to do with existentialism and just a little bit to do with exits. The Safe Road Trains for the Environment program is a three-year European study centering on the creation of ‘platoons’ of drivers behind a lead vehicle on the highway. It involves wiring cars to speak to each other, and to a lead vehicle – the platoon commander – behind which up to eight cars could follow in automated bliss.”

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Who won!? “Both sides claimed victory in Romania’s presidential election in a race that appeared too close to call Sunday night. Mircea Geoana, Romania’s former foreign minister and the leader of the leftist Social Democrats, declared himself the winner after several exit polls showed him ahead with roughly 51 percent of the vote. But the centrist president, Traian Basescu, refused to concede the race, claiming media manipulation and declaring himself the true victor.”

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CULTURE: Lately we’ve been pursuing stories about cabs for a project we’re working on. The cab drivers, managers and companies have an interesting perspective on the urban grid. In our research we came across this fantastic collection of Tokyo cab signs. The design and expression of the signs is matched with really sharp photography. Click Read More to view additional photos and information.

Spotted via Colette

NYC HANDBALL
JAPAN’S RECENT THIRST FOR THRIFT
ONE NIGHT IN BEIJING

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PLACES: Last month J Mayer H Architects (JMH) completed the Steckelhorn 11 office building located in Hamburg, Germany. With provocative lines and modernist color-ways it’s a stand-out structure among the more traditional buildings in the district. We wouldn’t mind having a satellite office there.

As JMH states: “Steckelhorn 11 replaces a ruinous building and fills the gap between two historic premises. the triangular-shaped lot stretches across the city block, thus allowing for a narrow façade of about 1.9 m width facing the harbor and a main elevation of about 26.4 m oriented toward steckelhörn street. the vertical design and soft setbacks of the latter pay tribute to the massing of the surrounding structures, as well as to local building-height regulations. cantilevered elements in the main facade create a series of specific spatial qualities on the inside and outside. the top floors provide additional outside space, offering a spectacular panoramic view over the city of hamburg.” Click Read More for additional information and photos.

CONTEMPORIST ON STECKELHORN 11
DESIGNBOOM ON STECKELHORN 11
J MAYER H ARCHITECTS

WORKSPACES BY JOSEPH HOLMES
SELGAS CANO CAPSULE MADRID
KULTUR STUDIO’S ESPACO +SOMA

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GOOD IDEAS: Bike culture continues its march forward in the US. Washington DC’s Union Station recently opened a Bike Transit Center that houses a repair shop, bike rentals, and a secure bike parking system for commuters. As Flavorwire reports, “The facility will be the first of its kind on the East Coast, part of an effort to encourage eco-friendly commuting with the promise of added security for bicycles. Eighty-percent of the funding for the $4-million bike center came from the US Department of Transportation, with additional funds from the DDOT.” Click Read More for additional information and photos.

PSFK ON BIKE TRANSIT CENTER
FLAVORWIRE ON BIKE TRANSIT CENTER
DESIGNED BY KGP

BEAUTIFY THE CITY WITH TRASH
PAPER & GLASS IN MARSEILLE
ANIMAL WALL

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NEWS: This week’s outlook reports on an unlikely Climate Change Deal; Iceland’s winning Fashion Designers; Germany’s honoring of soccer star Enke; Venice’s dramatization of Urban Flight; and Obama’s visit to China. Click Read More for the entire report.

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Optimism hits a wall regarding possible deal on climate change. “President Obama and leaders from the rest of the world’s top economic powers acknowledged Sunday that there’s no hope of a major breakthrough over climate change by year’s end…”

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Sometimes in an economic downturn creatives thrive. Time Magazine has an interesting story about Iceland’s Fashion Designers and their story after the economic crash. “In the heart of downtown Reykjavik sits a freshly painted pink building. The innards of the two-story metal structure have been gutted to make way for smooth concrete floors, diamond white walls and racks of clothing from Icelandic retailer, Nikita. Just a year ago, the same building was being readied for demolition. In its place were plans for an ultramodern shopping mall stretching several blocks across the capital’s commercial district. Then came the crash…”

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Early last week, sad news hit the soccer world. Talented Goal keeper, Robert Enke, took his own life at the age of 32 after battling depression for years. “Tens of thousands of fans joined family, friends and team mates of Enke to pay their last respects to the Germany goalkeeper on Sunday, five days after his suicide shocked the country and soccer fans worldwide. At a memorial service at the Hanover 96 ground where Enke played his club football, 45,000 people, including Germany team mates and coaches dressed in black, watched as Enke’s coffin was placed in the middle of the pitch…”

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Urban flight is marked by theatrics in Venice. “At high noon on Saturday, a gondola bearing a hot-pink plywood coffin decked with yellow flowers made its way down the Grand Canal. Onlookers watched from the shore and shouted greetings from the Rialto Bridge before the boat alighted nearby in front of the Venice city hall. Part photo opportunity, part political theater, the spectacle was the centerpiece of a fake funeral for the city of Venice. A group of prankster-provocateurs organized it to protest the fact that the number of residents in Venice’s historic center has dropped below 60,000, down from 74,000 in 1993, as rising rents and hordes of tourists have pushed thousands to the mainland.”

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Uncensored or Semantics: “President Obama in Shanghai, live and uncensored? At least, that was the billing the White House wanted. The president’s advance team had been pressing the Chinese government to allow a town hall-style meeting with students Monday to be broadcast live on Chinese television. Well, it looks like Obama may get to air live, but many people won’t be able to see it.”

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PLACES: Following in the footsteps of Shibuya Crossing, London’s Oxford Circus Crossing opened earlier this month. Noted as Europe’s busiest diagonal crossing, London adopted the intersection protocol which stops all auto-traffic and allows pedestrians to cross in any direction for short intervals. As the BBC reports: “The £5m Junction is able to handle double the number of pedestrians and ease overcrowding at the busy intersection.” View video of the “X-Crossing” here.

BBC On London’s Oxford Circus

THE HOOVER DAM BYPASS PROJECT
WEST LONDON’S AUDI SHOWROOM
BATTLE OF BRANCHAGE

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