Inside Nithurst Farm — an architect’s sci-fi dream
https://www.ft.com/content/9c7d20ae-1da4-11ea-81f0-0c253907d3e0 [www.ft.com]
2020-07-12 06:40
tags:
architecture
photos
As you approach Nithurst Farm, architect Adam Richards’ new house, the sheep look up suspiciously from their grazing. You feel like an intruder. Sitting in the middle of the undulating Sussex countryside, the house looks more like a piece of railway viaduct or a bit of agricultural or industrial infrastructure left over from some obscure purpose than a conventional dwelling. It might even be a ruin, the stray remains of a Roman villa.
Welcome to the age of the avatar
https://www.ft.com/content/8ca2f72a-1b4d-11ea-9186-7348c2f183af [www.ft.com]
2019-12-12 07:54
tags:
future
graphics
hoipolloi
social
tech
The cutting-edge holiday cottages of Dungeness
https://www.ft.com/content/69f5c08c-0b9d-11ea-bb52-34c8d9dc6d84 [www.ft.com]
2019-11-23 00:40
tags:
architecture
photos
travel
Dungeness is unusual both biologically and geologically: a cuspate foreland formed by the meeting of longshore drift from the north and west, there are 600 species of plants, abundant birdlife as well as moths and invertebrates not found elsewhere. Officials have designated it a National Nature Reserve, a Special Protection Area and a Site of Special Scientific Interest. There’s a birdwatching centre, a miniature railway for day-trippers, two lighthouses and two pubs. And looming over it all, the power station — two of those in fact, opened in 1965 and 1983, sitting side-by-side on the beach.
Recent years have brought an even more intriguing element to this unlikely mix: Dungeness is becoming a focus for pioneering architecture, as former fishermen’s shacks, coastguard cottages, industrial and military buildings are transformed into cutting-edge seaside retreats.
Knotel wants to be WeWork — without the ‘bloodbath’
https://www.ft.com/content/0bbf2f82-f412-11e9-b018-3ef8794b17c6 [www.ft.com]
2019-11-04 07:10
tags:
business
valley
Boarding soon: the five-star airship bound for the North Pole
https://www.ft.com/content/f34a3a56-e8fd-11e9-a240-3b065ef5fc55 [www.ft.com]
2019-10-27 21:37
tags:
flying
travel
vapor
To date, the Airlander 10 has done seven test flights. Now a Swedish company, OceanSky Cruises, is selling tickets for trips to the North Pole starting in 2023. It promises “a flying five-star hotel”, with polar bears and whales lingering below. The round-trip from Svalbard — including cocktail, dinner and breakfast on the airship, lunch in the snow, and another dinner and cocktail on board — takes 38 hours.
Only $79,000 if you book now!
Another article: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20191107-how-airships-could-return-to-our-crowded-skies
Vitamin drips and cryotherapy at Manhattan’s Equinox Hotel
https://www.ft.com/content/d922132c-b82b-11e9-96bd-8e884d3ea203 [www.ft.com]
2019-08-12 15:31
tags:
hoipolloi
life
nyc
travel
So began an unusual stay at the first luxury hotel to grow out of a cultish New York gym. Soon to follow would be other health-enhancing treats, including a deep-tissue massage with CBD oil and a flash freeze in a cryotherapy chamber at minus 100C (minus 150C, if you include wind-chill).
Unusual.
Living with a starchitect’s early work
https://www.ft.com/content/2936032e-8937-11e9-b861-54ee436f9768 [www.ft.com]
2019-07-28 02:18
tags:
architecture
article
life
photos
Young, ambitious architects are known for cost overruns, impractical layouts — and the occasional work of genius
A catalog of complaints, and some advice:
Le Corbusier, never the most self-deprecating of architects, returned to the site and, looking around, is reported to have said: “You know, it is always life that is right and the architect who is wrong.” That was not an admission of error: Le Corbusier meant that his designs were able to accommodate change.
Why Nasa’s next Moon mission can’t be an Apollo retread
https://www.ft.com/content/5adc069a-9d27-11e9-b8ce-8b459ed04726 [www.ft.com]
2019-07-11 01:10
tags:
article
history
policy
space
tech
There is a familiar question asked of politicians, entrepreneurs and innovators: if you were to do it all again, what would you do differently?
At Nasa headquarters, they’re fielding almost the opposite inquiry. Why don’t you just do it the same? If you managed to put Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the Moon five decades ago, why is it so hard to do it now?
source: MR
Europe speaks its own post-Brexit English
https://www.ft.com/content/b5afd93a-0d94-11e8-8eb7-42f857ea9f09 [www.ft.com]
2018-02-21 02:03
tags:
hoipolloi
language
‘Eurish’ offers a mix of romance and Germanic influences — and no tricky metaphors
source: MR
Japan’s lost lands: why a fifth of the nation’s territory is worthless
https://www.ft.com/content/3aaa626e-f61f-11e7-8715-e94187b3017e [www.ft.com]
2018-01-21 14:09
tags:
hoipolloi
policy
urban
Feudal laws and untraceable landowners have rendered an area the size of Denmark practically unusable
It belongs to somebody, but nobody knows who.
source: MR
Battle against free digital content takes gloss off magazines
https://www.ft.com/content/e774a910-aa79-11e7-ab55-27219df83c97 [www.ft.com]
2017-10-07 02:33
tags:
business
media
But times have changed in the magazine world and even the most prestigious titles are being challenged by the never-ending penetration of the internet and its abundance of free news and entertainment.
Bad publicity: how not to promote a start-up
https://www.ft.com/content/de4b504a-67db-11e7-9a66-93fb352ba1fe [www.ft.com]
2017-08-02 02:15
tags:
business
social
valley
What happens when the press anoints you a Facebook killer before your product is ready? You don’t kill Facebook. The Ello story.
source: ML