Castellane is a French commune, sub-prefecture of the department of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence in the region Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur. With around 1,600 inhabitants, Castellane has the distinction of being the least populated sub-prefecture in France. The commune contains 7,000 acres of wood and forests. The Massif du Montdenier extends over the western part…
The Badami cave temples are a complex of four Hindu, a Jain and possibly Buddhist cave temples located in Badami, a town in the Bagalkot district in northern part of Karnataka, India. The caves are considered an example of Indian rock-cut architecture, especially Badami Chalukya architecture, which dates from the…
Japanese Ceramics is a type of ceramic and is a generic term for those made by hardening and burning soil. A pottery. Clay used for ceramics includes quartz, which contains silica as a main component which vitrifies with other substances such as aluminum and calcium by heating to vitrify. By…
Simone Ferrucci (1437-1493), also Francesco di Simone Ferrucci, was an Italian sculptor, influenced by Andrea del Verrocchio and Desiderio da Settignano, and therefore, in some respects, similar to the contemporary and fellow citizen Mino da Fiesole. Ferrucci was born in Fiesole into a family of artists, and was probably trained…
The 5th arrondissement of Marseille is divided between the center and east of the city, ranging from the plain to the Cemetery St. Peter’s to the east and to the avenue of Toulon in the south. It is part of the third sector of Marseille. The arrondissement is crossed from…
The heart of the residence is the large oval hall with its highly suggestive concave – convex balconies. Four lower arms start from the central hall to form a cross of Sant’Andrea, where the royal apartments and those for guests are located. The themes of the decoration of the rooms…
The Museum of the twentieth century in Milan is a permanent exhibition of 20th century works of art housed in the Palazzo dell’Arengario and the adjacent Royal Palace in Milan. The museum absorbed the collections of the previous Civic Museum of Contemporary Art (CIMAC) which was located on the second…
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) is the United States’ official memorial to the Holocaust. A living memorial to the Holocaust, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum inspires citizens and leaders worldwide to confront hatred, prevent genocide, and promote human dignity, and strengthen democracy. USHMM Located among our national…
Tetrachromacy is the condition of possessing four independent channels for conveying color information, or possessing four types of cone cells in the eye. Organisms with tetrachromacy are called tetrachromats. In tetrachromatic organisms, the sensory color space is four-dimensional, meaning that to match the sensory effect of arbitrarily chosen spectra of…
The West Kowloon Cultural District (WKCD) is a development project that aims to form an international-grade arts and culture hub. Stretching across 40 hectares of reclaimed land, the West Kowloon Cultural District is one of the largest cultural projects in the world, blending art, education and open space. Its vision…
Mir iskusstva (Russian: «Мир искусства», means World of Art) was a Russian magazine and the artistic movement, with the idea of promoting a pictorial renewal of Russian art by synthesizing several artistic forms including theater, decoration and the art of the book. It inspired and embodied, which was a major…
Vaporwave is a microgenre of electronic music, a visual art style, and an Internet meme that emerged in the early 2010s. It is defined by its mimetic embrace of Internet culture and its sampling of smooth jazz, elevator music, R&B, and lounge music from the 1980s and 1990s, with the…
The solar PV is a power source that produces electricity from renewable sources, one obtained directly from solar radiation by a device semiconductor called photovoltaic cell. This type of energy is used mainly to produce electricity on a large scale through distribution networks, but also allows to feed countless applications…
Museum of Science of Trento (MUSE) is the Museum of Science of Trento. It is located south of the historic Palazzo delle Albere, in a building inside the Le Albere residential district, both designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano. It was inaugurated on July 27, 2013 and replaced, continuing…
USC Fisher Museum of Art, formerly USC Fisher Gallery, which is affiliated with the University of Southern California, is the first art museum established in the city of Los Angeles. USC Fisher Museum of Art opened as an art museum and remains solely dedicated to the exhibition and collection of…
The Sorbonne district is the 20th administrative district of Paris located in the 5th arrondissement, near the Luxembourg Gardens and the Sorbonne faculty on the Sainte-Geneviève mountain. This is the district of the great Parisian schools and prestigious institutes located within the Latin Quarter. Known for its student life, lively…
Experiential Interior Design (EID) is the practice of employing experiential values in interior experience design. EID is a new design approach to interior architecture based on modern environmental psychology emphasizing human experiential needs. The notion of EID is initiated from the subjective impact of a designed environment on experience formation.…
The Musée des Confluences is a museum of natural history, anthropology, societies and civilizations located in Lyon in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Heir to the Guimet Natural History Museum in Lyon, it is housed in a deconstructivist style building of the Coop Himmelb (l) au de 2014 architecture firm, in the La Confluence…
Expressionist architecture is an architectural movement in Europe during the first decades of the 20th century in parallel with the expressionist visual and performing arts that especially developed and dominated in Germany. Brick Expressionism is a special variant of this movement in western and northern Germany and in The Netherlands…
Thermal depolymerization (TDP) is a depolymerization process using hydrous pyrolysis for the reduction of complex organic materials (usually waste products of various sorts, often biomass and plastic) into light crude oil. It mimics the natural geological processes thought to be involved in the production of fossil fuels. Under pressure and…
Pera Museum’s Orientalist Painting Collection consists of works by European and Ottoman/Turkish artists, including works by Osman Hamdi Bey and his most famous painting, The Tortoise Trainer. Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation Collection Throughout the ages, the Orient has attracted the interest of the West. European intellectuals and artists have…
Hybrid vehicle drivetrains transmit power to the driving wheels for hybrid vehicles. A hybrid vehicle has multiple forms of motive power. Hybrids come in many configurations. For example, a hybrid may receive its energy by burning petroleum, but switch between an electric motor and a combustion engine. Electrical vehicles have…
A marker pen, is a pen which has its own ink-source, and a tip made of porous, pressed fibers such as felt. A permanent marker consists of a container (glass, aluminum or plastic) and a core of an absorbent material. This filling serves as a carrier for the ink. The…
Salone del Mobile Milano, the most expected international event for the furnishing and design sectors, last from 17 to 22 of April, 2012, at Rho Milan Fairgrounds pavilions. An invaluable tool for the industry as well as an ongoing, quite extraordinary promotional vehicle. The 51st edition of the Salone Internazionale…
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Castellane, Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France
Castellane is a French commune, sub-prefecture of the department of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence in the region Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur. With around 1,600 inhabitants, Castellane has the distinction of being the least populated sub-prefecture in France. The commune contains 7,000 acres of wood and forests. The Massif du Montdenier extends over the western part…
Read moreBadami cave temples
The Badami cave temples are a complex of four Hindu, a Jain and possibly Buddhist cave temples located in Badami, a town in the Bagalkot district in northern part of Karnataka, India. The caves are considered an example of Indian rock-cut architecture, especially Badami Chalukya architecture, which dates from the…
Read moreJapanese ceramics, Tokyo National Museum
Japanese Ceramics is a type of ceramic and is a generic term for those made by hardening and burning soil. A pottery. Clay used for ceramics includes quartz, which contains silica as a main component which vitrifies with other substances such as aluminum and calcium by heating to vitrify. By…
Read moreSimone Ferrucci
Simone Ferrucci (1437-1493), also Francesco di Simone Ferrucci, was an Italian sculptor, influenced by Andrea del Verrocchio and Desiderio da Settignano, and therefore, in some respects, similar to the contemporary and fellow citizen Mino da Fiesole. Ferrucci was born in Fiesole into a family of artists, and was probably trained…
Read more5th arrondissement of Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
The 5th arrondissement of Marseille is divided between the center and east of the city, ranging from the plain to the Cemetery St. Peter’s to the east and to the avenue of Toulon in the south. It is part of the third sector of Marseille. The arrondissement is crossed from…
Read moreCentral hall, Hunting residence of Stupinigi
The heart of the residence is the large oval hall with its highly suggestive concave – convex balconies. Four lower arms start from the central hall to form a cross of Sant’Andrea, where the royal apartments and those for guests are located. The themes of the decoration of the rooms…
Read moreMuseum of the 20th century, Milan, Italy
The Museum of the twentieth century in Milan is a permanent exhibition of 20th century works of art housed in the Palazzo dell’Arengario and the adjacent Royal Palace in Milan. The museum absorbed the collections of the previous Civic Museum of Contemporary Art (CIMAC) which was located on the second…
Read moreUnited States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) is the United States’ official memorial to the Holocaust. A living memorial to the Holocaust, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum inspires citizens and leaders worldwide to confront hatred, prevent genocide, and promote human dignity, and strengthen democracy. USHMM Located among our national…
Read moreTetrachromacy
Tetrachromacy is the condition of possessing four independent channels for conveying color information, or possessing four types of cone cells in the eye. Organisms with tetrachromacy are called tetrachromats. In tetrachromatic organisms, the sensory color space is four-dimensional, meaning that to match the sensory effect of arbitrarily chosen spectra of…
Read moreWest Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong
The West Kowloon Cultural District (WKCD) is a development project that aims to form an international-grade arts and culture hub. Stretching across 40 hectares of reclaimed land, the West Kowloon Cultural District is one of the largest cultural projects in the world, blending art, education and open space. Its vision…
Read moreMir iskusstva
Mir iskusstva (Russian: «Мир искусства», means World of Art) was a Russian magazine and the artistic movement, with the idea of promoting a pictorial renewal of Russian art by synthesizing several artistic forms including theater, decoration and the art of the book. It inspired and embodied, which was a major…
Read moreVaporwave
Vaporwave is a microgenre of electronic music, a visual art style, and an Internet meme that emerged in the early 2010s. It is defined by its mimetic embrace of Internet culture and its sampling of smooth jazz, elevator music, R&B, and lounge music from the 1980s and 1990s, with the…
Read moreApplication of photovoltaics
The solar PV is a power source that produces electricity from renewable sources, one obtained directly from solar radiation by a device semiconductor called photovoltaic cell. This type of energy is used mainly to produce electricity on a large scale through distribution networks, but also allows to feed countless applications…
Read moreMuseum of Science of Trento, Italy
Museum of Science of Trento (MUSE) is the Museum of Science of Trento. It is located south of the historic Palazzo delle Albere, in a building inside the Le Albere residential district, both designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano. It was inaugurated on July 27, 2013 and replaced, continuing…
Read moreUSC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles, United States
USC Fisher Museum of Art, formerly USC Fisher Gallery, which is affiliated with the University of Southern California, is the first art museum established in the city of Los Angeles. USC Fisher Museum of Art opened as an art museum and remains solely dedicated to the exhibition and collection of…
Read moreGuide Tour of the Sorbonne district, Paris, France
The Sorbonne district is the 20th administrative district of Paris located in the 5th arrondissement, near the Luxembourg Gardens and the Sorbonne faculty on the Sainte-Geneviève mountain. This is the district of the great Parisian schools and prestigious institutes located within the Latin Quarter. Known for its student life, lively…
Read moreExperiential interior design
Experiential Interior Design (EID) is the practice of employing experiential values in interior experience design. EID is a new design approach to interior architecture based on modern environmental psychology emphasizing human experiential needs. The notion of EID is initiated from the subjective impact of a designed environment on experience formation.…
Read moreMuseum of Confluences, Lyon, France
The Musée des Confluences is a museum of natural history, anthropology, societies and civilizations located in Lyon in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Heir to the Guimet Natural History Museum in Lyon, it is housed in a deconstructivist style building of the Coop Himmelb (l) au de 2014 architecture firm, in the La Confluence…
Read moreHistory of expressionist architecture
Expressionist architecture is an architectural movement in Europe during the first decades of the 20th century in parallel with the expressionist visual and performing arts that especially developed and dominated in Germany. Brick Expressionism is a special variant of this movement in western and northern Germany and in The Netherlands…
Read moreThermal depolymerization
Thermal depolymerization (TDP) is a depolymerization process using hydrous pyrolysis for the reduction of complex organic materials (usually waste products of various sorts, often biomass and plastic) into light crude oil. It mimics the natural geological processes thought to be involved in the production of fossil fuels. Under pressure and…
Read moreOrientalist Painting Collection, Pera Museum
Pera Museum’s Orientalist Painting Collection consists of works by European and Ottoman/Turkish artists, including works by Osman Hamdi Bey and his most famous painting, The Tortoise Trainer. Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation Collection Throughout the ages, the Orient has attracted the interest of the West. European intellectuals and artists have…
Read moreHybrid vehicle drivetrain
Hybrid vehicle drivetrains transmit power to the driving wheels for hybrid vehicles. A hybrid vehicle has multiple forms of motive power. Hybrids come in many configurations. For example, a hybrid may receive its energy by burning petroleum, but switch between an electric motor and a combustion engine. Electrical vehicles have…
Read moreMarker Pen
A marker pen, is a pen which has its own ink-source, and a tip made of porous, pressed fibers such as felt. A permanent marker consists of a container (glass, aluminum or plastic) and a core of an absorbent material. This filling serves as a carrier for the ink. The…
Read moreReview of Salone del Mobile.Milano 2012, Milan Design Week, Italy
Salone del Mobile Milano, the most expected international event for the furnishing and design sectors, last from 17 to 22 of April, 2012, at Rho Milan Fairgrounds pavilions. An invaluable tool for the industry as well as an ongoing, quite extraordinary promotional vehicle. The 51st edition of the Salone Internazionale…
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