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21, May 2012 12:56 am
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30, April 2012 1:40 am
The patent-pending Rocking-2-Gether Chair designed by Houston architect Paul Kweton creates sharing moments together with your trusty pet companion.
Made out of CNC milled birch plywood, the modern rocking chair can be customized to display different density and sizes for the wooden spacers, so you can control the visual connection between you and your pet.
30, April 2012 1:30 am
A stroll in the historic part of this city is so colorful it looks like a rainbow exploded over it.
There’s a distinct Dutch colonial style in the architecture, but the colors and certain ornamental shapes also show its Spanish heritage and influences by others that briefly took hold of the island.
There’s extensive documentation on the city’s architecture as it is on the World Heritage List.The capital city developed after the Dutch claimed the island in 1634, beginning with Punda, the walled portion of the old city. Buildings tended to be two and three-story shops and residences built on narrow, elongated lots to maximize use of scarce land. The only materials available for construction, mismatched bricks scavenged from ship ballast, were finished with lime plaster made from crushed shells, which dried to a dazzling white facade in the intense Caribbean sun..
It is said that a former governor of the island who suffered from severe headaches, believing his malady was aggravated by the sun’s brilliant reflections off the white buildings, mandated that building exteriors be painted any color but not white. Despite later discovery that the governor was a shareholder in the island’s only paint store, the tradition of painting in vivid colors has endured, making Willemstad’s Dutch and Spanish colonial style architecture one of the most stunning sights in the Caribbean.
30, April 2012 1:27 am
30, April 2012 1:13 am
Flying Buttresses Abound (by dclamster)
Although not as tall as many skyscrapers in Chicago, I love the Chicago Tribune Tower’s gothic style.
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25, April 2012 1:52 pm
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