I hope you all had a great weekend! I had some free time on mine so there’s a bunch of links for today! Enjoy!
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A water purifier bike: “The Aquaduct is a pedal powered concept vehicle that transports, filters, and stores water for the developing world.” IDEO is one of my fav company.

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“The Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) has completed the Masterplan of Waterfront City, a city to be built from scratch by Nakheel in Dubai. Waterfront City will form a vibrant centre for the larger 140,000,000 m2 Waterfront development. Waterfront is Dubai’s largest development to date providing homes for a prospective 1.5 million new inhabitants, effectively doubling Dubai’s population and creating one million jobs.[...] OMA [was commissioned] in early 2007 to design a high density development that was free from dependency on the car. As a solution to this, Waterfront City is designed with the density of Manhattan in mind and offers a compact solution for a modern day metropolis.” I still have problems to comprehend how an architecture agency can make a proposal to build -a whole city-. It’s somehow beyond my imagination. But hey! It’s Dubai. Doubling the city’population ? Creating one million jobs? No problem! Geez…

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Porn vs. Prostitution. Why is it legal to pay someone for sex on camera?
“Porn stars are paid to act (really); prostitutes are paid for sex. Performers may engage in sex as part of their roles—they presumably follow a script—but that doesn’t count as sex for hire.”

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The NHS (UK National Health Services) has dished out advice for those struggling to squeeze a fitness regime into their busy lives (most of us then) and recommended a workout between the sheets is the ideal alternative.

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“The Anglican Church is publishing a course and a guide to marriage called “Growing Together” that encourages married couples to be open and frank with each other [...] Some couples clearly need the information. The book includes one case study of a couple who were distressed at the woman’s failure to become pregnant. The guide explains why. [...] “It turned out they had never had full intercourse,” it says.” They were waiting for a stork.

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Masdar announced today [feb 22nd] that it has chosen Chicago architecture firm Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture (AS+GG) to design its headquarters in Abu Dhabi’s Masdar City, the world’s first zero-carbon, zero-waste city fully powered by renewable energy. The headquarters will be the world’s first large-scale, mixed-use “positive energy” building, producing more energy than it consumes. [...] The complex will utilize sustainable materials and feature integrated wind turbines, outdoor air quality monitors and one of the world’s largest building-integrated solar energy arrays. [...] Masdar is Abu Dhabi’s multi-faceted, multi-billion dollar investment in the development and commercialization of advanced and innovative technologies in renewable, alternative and sustainable energies as well as green design.

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Comme des Garçons (japanese clothing brand is opening guerrila shops in some locations around the world. Check it out. (More on Pop-up retail)

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Artist of the day is: Beat Assaillant

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