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de simples petits granulés verts, issus de la chimie organique, seront peut-être le remède aux pénuries d'eau dans les pays du sud et à la fin de son gaspillage dans les pays du nord. philippe ouaki di giorno, ingénieur agronome français, a créé le produit miracle pour répondre à ce problème 

http://www.cles.com/debats-entretiens/article/l-homme-qui-fertilise-les-deserts

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by paolo rinaldi

premio chi è chi award 2014, best weekly online magazine

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voyages

paolo pettigiani sees new york city’s central park in pink and blue 

http://www.paolopettigiani.com/

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architecture

dutch office mvrdv has revealed the first photographs of the stairs, a huge scaffolding staircase leading up to the roof of an office block in rotterdam city centre. as the latest of several exciting new additions to the city, the temporary installation allows visitors to climb 180 steps up to the roof of the groot handelsgebouw – one of the first buildings constructed in the city after the end of the second world war

https://www.mvrdv.nl/

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dutch architecture studio mecanoo has presented plans for a 14-storey tower in seoul, located next to one of south korea’s oldest and largest markets

http://www.mecanoo.nl/

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the san francisco museum of modern art reopened after an ambitious $305 million expansion and facelift that aims to rival the world-class art spaces.the revamped museum was unveiled may 14 following a three-year upgrade entrusted to the norwegian architecture firm snohetta. the brick structure that has housed the sfmoma since 1995 in downtown san francisco is now attached to a huge 10-floor annex. ph iwan baan

http://snohetta.com/

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left, juan blázquez, oficina técnica municipal ayuntamiento alhaurín de la torre, màlaga, spain, ph jesùs granada

http://www.ezar.es/es/

right, modern architects san diego ramiro losada alberto. ph miguel de guzmán garcia

http://www.ramirolosada.com/cv/

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lissoni’s team wins new york aquarium public waterfront competition. on an underutilized waterfront site that borders the east river and the eleventh street basin in new york city, arch out loud invited students and professional designers to redefine the aquarium typology, examining its relationship to the urban context and the public domain. ph arch out loud

http://www.lissoniassociati.com/Who.aspx

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left, located on the periphery of the city, the plot of land offers a spectacular view of linz, as long as one builds high enough to be able to gaze over the neighbouring properties. project caramel architekten

http://www.caramel.at/

right, verbania cultural centre and teather by studio bargone

http://www.studiobargone.it/

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j.j. pan & partners, section 4, zhongyang rd, tucheng district, new taipei city, taiwan 236, ph chien-yuan liang

http://www.jjpan.com/

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hotels, restaurants and bars

the adult-centric, all-inclusive temptation resort & spa cancun has announced they’re working with designer karim rashid to complete a makeover that is due to start later this year

https://temptationresorts.com/cancun/, http://karimrashid.com/

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design firm enter projects were asked to design the interior of the lot 1 cafe & restaurant in sydney, australia

http://www.enterprojects.net/

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interiors

roberto baciocchi has designed inside nilufar depot a cubic architecture, which contains a precious and elegant dining room

http://www.baciocchiassociati.it/, http://www.nilufar.com/

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virgin australia have just launched their new business class cabin on their boeing 777-300er aircraft that flies across the pacific

http://www.virginaustralia.com/au/en/

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in an effort to bring world famous art to the masses, snfc — france’s national state-owned rail service — has applied renowned works to one of the most heavily trafficked locations in the country: its public train system. in collaboration with 3m, the interior of a commuter train has been covered with graphic film that mimics impressionist art from the musee d’orsay

http://www.sncf.com/en/passengers

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design

agra, living divani outdoor by david lopez quincoces

http://www.livingdivani.it/IT/Home.aspx

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left, b-bats armchair by william sawaya

right, tudy armchair by william sawaya

http://www.sawayamoroni.com/

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left, poltrona drum by mac stop for cappellini

http://www.cappellini.it/it

right, poltrona milan by flexform

http://www.flexform.it/it

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frankfurt-based designer jonathan radetz has created a collection of vases, whose form was dictated by the seismograph recordings of two earthquakes. the earthquakes he based his designs on were the 6.0 earthquake in italy in 2012, and the 6.3 earthquake in new zealand in 2011

http://www.jonoconcepts.com/

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tipsy, wine bottle stand by keiji takeuchi for amorim

http://www.amorim.com, http://www.amorimcomposit.com

http://www.experimentadesign.it

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fold mirror by katharina eisenkoek

http://www.katharinaeisenkoeck.com/

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rabbit chair by stefano giovannoni for qeeboo

qeeboo.com/

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chair by nika zupanc

info@nikazupanc.com

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artisanat

a grottaglie (ta), città rinomata delle ceramiche, una storica bottega, enza fasano ceramiche, trasforma gli oggetti tradizionali un tempo usati in ambito domestico, in opere di design

http://www.enzafasano.it/

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lumières

graypants debuted their popular cardboard lighting series, scraplight, in white

http://www.graypants.com/

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le musée des arts décoratifs et du design de bordeaux présente jusqu'au 25 juillet un ensemble de lampes conçues par fabien cappello à partir d'une recherche sur la transparence et d'une réflexion sur la couleur

 http://www.bordeaux.fr/p63910, http://fabiencappello.com/

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installations

installation view of bahar yürükoglu’s ‘flow through’ at arter, ph ali taptik

http://iambahar.com/, http://www.arter.org.tr/W3/

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inside the monastery church grimma — a 580-year-old structure near leipzig, germany — berlin-based studio borgmn/lenk has suspended an enormous ‘stone’ from the building’s historic ceiling

http://www.borgmanlenk.com/

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a poetic creation of sylvie maréchal in a brussels apartement

http://www.beauetbien.com/home.php?lang=fr

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magasins

new showroom lema in sidney

http://www.lemamobili.com/it/

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exhibitions

‘raw material: a view of the archive of àlvaro siza’ brings together working materials produced in order to design and build 27 works of the pritzker-prize-winning architect in portugal at serralves museum of contemporary art

http://www.serralves.pt

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musées

in the mexican city of puebla, japanese architect toyo ito has designed a museum dedicated to baroque art. the museo internacional del barroco, or simply the mib. ph patrick lopez jaimes/danstek

http://www.toyo-ito.co.jp/WWW/index/index_en.html

http://mib.puebla.gob.mx/en/

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photos

simen johan at yossi milo gallery, until august 10

yossimilo.com

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beauty

left, officinali di montauto, luxury organic cosmetic

http://www.officinalidimontauto.it/

right, ready to smell, candele decorative e profumate

ready to smell by mariangela rossi

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et caetera

nazzareno ruspolini designed the ibat-jour series of 3d printed lamps made of white polymide, which easily transmits the light from your flashlight and turns it into ambient light

http://www.nazzarenoruspolinidesign.com/