This room — the “maximum kitchen,” he calls it — and the “video game room” he was sitting in minutes before are just 2 of at least 24 different layouts that Mr. Chang, an architect, can impose on his 344-square-foot apartment, which he renovated last year. What appears to be an open-plan studio actually contains many rooms, because of sliding wall units, fold-down tables and chairs, and the habitual kinesis of a resident in a small space. As Mr. Chang put it, “I glide around.”

Daily routines are culled from books, newspapers, magazines, and Web sites and tell you the routine of the rich and famous.

I think this point toward a new kind of tourism (e.g. authenticity tourism). You'll definitly see more and more tourism guides claiming to show you the "real" side of a city.

Look beyond the skyscrapers of Paulista Avenue, the upscale shops and the sophisticated restaurants that have made São Paulo famous worldwide. It’s in the narrow backstreets of the city, unknown to most visitors, that the true essence of this metropolis can be found. Recognizing the lack of true insider looks at Latin America’s largest city, journalist Phuong-Cac Nguyen created “Total São Paulo: A Guide to the Unexpected”, a guidebook introducing curious visitors to the truly hidden, unexpected, and often amazing aspects of the city.

The Cadillac of Cadillacs- For the 100th anniversary of Cadillac I designed a car built to last another 100 years on the same fuel source. This car is an exercise in design for the brand Cadillac, sustainability, and social influence.

This vehicle was designed with high-quality materials that are build to resist 100-years of daily use. There are redundancies built for all the major systems of the vehicle so even if something were to fail on the vehicle it would continue to function. This is why the vehicle has 24 wheels with individual internal induction motors. The vehicle would require the tires to be adjusted every 5 years, but no material would need to be added or subtracted.

I love most-complained adverts. They are usually incredibly funny..

More pictures of personal reading in madrid

personal reading in public sites‘ a new lighting intervention created by spanish company luzinterruptus. This intervention used light from lamps and books and was carried out during a freezing night in Madrid. The objective of the project was to transform those places which in normal conditions would not catch our eye and we would not like stay there for a long time at night into more comfortable places.

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Awesome article about the bullet train in spain. I had a great presentation from Vikas Tibrewala last year on how the train industry in america didn't understand its role and missed out when the automobile and the plane were invented in not reinventing their industry…