High-Tech Haven This 1938 English-manor-style home was in poor condition when technology tycoon Scott Jones bought it in the mid-1990s. But he knew the 50-acre property in Carmel, Ind., had potential. So he tripled its size to 27,000-square-feet, outfitted it in turn-of-the-century English country décor and wired it to create the ultimate high-tech haven.
Jones is able to able to control lighting, air conditioning and music with the touch of a button. Fingerprint recognition is used throughout the home to control access to certain rooms such as the wine cellar. Even the wine cellar is a technological marvel. A computer keeps track of which wines Jones likes and dislikes and re-orders his favorites so he's never out of stock. Another unique feature of the home is the 28-foot mahogany slide Jones commissioned, which makes going downstairs fun.
(top left) House attack, view from the court of the MuseumsQuarter, Vienna.
(top right)House attack, installed on MUMOK's external façade.
For Wurm, [..], anything can become sculpture: actions, written or drawn instructions, or even a thought. His art often treats elementary as well as banal life needs and actions, as well as their perversion, as can be expressed in physical deformations. (source: MUMOK)
Wurm's most recent work is the object "House attack", installed on MUMOK's external façade: the single family house as a symbol of the everyday plunge into the façade of the museum.
The installation is accompanied by the exhibition "Keep a Cool Head", by Erwin Wurm (Opening: 19 October, 2006 - 7.00 p.m.).
Finally, the architecturally boring MuseumsQuartier (by Ortner & Ortner) has got a landmark.
Whether it's Norman Foster, Zaha Hadid, SOM or OMA - successful architectural practices are building in Dubai: What kind of architect's dream these projects fulfill? Certainly, they leave a mark on the planet, at least reminiscence to the global ¥E$.
"Freedom Tower, the signature building at the World Trade Centre site, will soar 1776 feet (541.3 metres) in a design by architects David Childs and Daniel Libeskind that seeks to evoke the Statue of Liberty and is topped with electricity-generating windmills surrounded by cables... The east and west facades will curve to create an asymmetrical torqued, or twisting, effect - similar to that of the statue in New York Harbour - for 70 floors of office space, a two-floor restaurant and an enclosed observatory rising to 335 metres. Above will be a 122 metre open-air structure wrapped in cable that contains twin concrete cores with wind turbines. An 84 metre spire housing an antenna will complete the building..." Related articles: New World Trade Center aims high The Tallest Building in the World: It's a Boast That Invites an Argument
