Modern technologies in your house

One of the main complaints about usual TV is that there is never anything good on. We can all remember a time when we sat in our favorite soft armchair in front of the screen television and switched the channels for hours without being able to find a TV channel that really interested us.

The general problem is that local TV and usual cable television simple can't provide for our needs when it comes to qualitative entertainment. There was a time when these TV channels were quite sufficient. But now, we need more, very more...

High-quality Satellite TV

Did you know that a Direct TV Satellite offers over 300 television channels? It is hard to believe, but it is fact. Imagine flipping through so many television channels, all offering interesting programming. Possibly, never again will you have to cry that nothing is on.

Upon, if you complain at all, it will be because there are very good TV shows and fascinating movies on that you don't know how to decide what to look. Furthermore, with DIRECT TV, not only do you look over 300 channels, but every one of these channels is brought to you in qualitative HD format.

Modern DIRECT TV for modern TVs

Today, many people have modern HD TVs, but they don't have modern satellite TV. The main problem with this is that to truly enjoy the high-quality images provided by this innovative breakthrough in home entertainment, you have to be watching TV channels that broadcast using this modern technology.

DIRECT TV can really change the way that you experience home entertainment and accordingly your composure. If you are unhappy with usual cable TV, consider Satellite TV now.

Elite rest on island Nurai

Small island Nurai (the area of 130,000 sq.m.) is obliged by the name to the Arabian word nur, that "light" means, and completely justifies the name.

Elite rest in Abu-Dhabi

Nurai belongs to company Zaya which are engaged in the organization of elite rest. The island amazes with magnificent vegetation, pure water and beaches. Nurai, located on the northeast Abu-Dhabi, in isolation from city turmoil, it becomes fast an exclusive resort.

Visitors of island can choose to themselves a haven to taste from 60 offered apartments: 31 it is direct on a beach and 36 water country houses. According to chief executive Zaya Nadia Zaal, Nurai offers a complex of all services and conveniences of world level.

LLC Zaya — joint venture of company Tasameen and Ashjar LLC. Together they already invest more than 25 years means in development of large objects of the real estate.

“On Nurai you can have your own part of paradise and to be in minutes of a way from Abu-Dhabi. On this improbably magnificent island, you will find all services and conveniences of a world resort of the luxury class,” — has added Nadia Zaal.

Each country house consists of several floors. A total area of such country house — 515 sq.m. In houses on 3 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, a garden on a roof with pool of Spa and a special delicatessen for gourmets. The area of seaside residences fluctuates from 3000 to 6050 square metres. In them on 5 bedrooms and 6 bathrooms. The design of resort apartments and apartment houses has been executed by New York studio Dror Studio Dror. Resort opening is planned for 2010. The starting prices for elite residences in Nurai begin with 20 million euro.

Luxury resort Nurai for usual people

The inhabitants of resort Nurai who do not have own habitation on island, will have also access to all services and the conveniences given on a resort. In addition to modern hotel which includes three restaurants of a world class, Nurai also offers a private helicopter platform and landing stage for yachts with seaport, fitness centre, private beaches and complexes of water sports entertainments.

Mecanoo have constructed theatre and the congress centre

The new congress center and the theatre designed by Dutch bureau Mecanoo, reminds the huge UFO which has landed on the Spanish earth.

Llotja de Lleida

On a building facade there is a tape of windows, on a roof the garden with twisted plants is broken. The project is called Llotja de Lleida.

In registration of interiors of theater silhouettes of trees were used. Walls in a building are issued by white plaster, the floor is made of marble or a tree.

New theatre in Lleida

Building characteristics: the total area of 37,500 sq.m., theatre on 1000 spectator places, this premise also can function as the congress center, two more congress halls on 400 and 200 places, the multipurpose premise, two foyers, 9,500 sq.m. of a parking, 15,325 more m.sq. — the area of office and 2,591 m.sq. — trading premises.

Centre Pompidou-Metz will open in May

Centre Pompidou-Metz is a joint architectural project of Japanese bureau Shigeru Ban and French — Jean de Gastines.

Centre Pompidou-Metz by Shigeru Ban & Jean de Gastines

The wavy laminated wooden structure of a roof surrounds a 77-metre metal spike. The roof framework is covered by translucent fiber glass and a teflon textile awning. The roof total area makes 10,700 m.sq. In a new building 5,000 sq.m. of exhibition areas will be accessible. The centre will be surrounded by two gardens and a terrace.

Centre Pompidou-Metz in France

Centre Pompidou-Metz becomes the second brand in Pompidou's family, after Centre Pompidou in Paris. Despite it, the centre program will be absolutely independent of the Parisian relative, and will make own scientific and cultural choice.

Rolex Learning Center in Lausanne

New Rolex Learning Center will open next week in the Swiss Lausanne. The project of Japanese bureau SANAA.

Rolex Learning Center by SANAA

The centre is in a campus of sciences and technologies of university EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), the educational center will be accessible both to students, and for the public. The centre will function as training laboratory, library with 500,000 volumes and the international cultural centre.

Having extended on the area in 20,000 sq.m., the centre there is an extensive network of services, libraries, information, dialogue, training, with restaurants, a cafe and vacation spots on open air. The building is innovative on the structure and the form, and has demanded use of the newest technologies for its building.

Rolex Learning Center receives financing from the Swiss government and large businessmen of the country. Participation of company Rolex in the project is a fruit of long-term cooperation with university EPFL in which frameworks researches of microtechnologies were carried out in hour design.

Rolex Awards

It also is traditional for the company, always a having reputation of the philanthropist in the field of arts, a science, culture (award Rolex Awards for businessmen, initiatives in sphere of arts Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative). Among other financial partners of the project — the companies well-known all over the world; Logitech, Losinger, Credit Suisse, Nestlé, Novartis, and SICPA.

Search of apartments in Philadelphia

Everyone knows renting an apartment in the United States can be a stressful task (especially when the budget is limited). Mainly the people are searching apartment or a home for renting in a strong limited budget.

Because the money is problem, also we need to meet all of our minimal comfort requirements. Such as location, traffic intersection, infrastructure presence, home security system etc. So you should rent a apartment with all your special requirements.

Apartment Guide All Inclusive

You can use search engine Google to get this unique information. Google will find one million relevant information, and you should make a choice... But I have already made the choice, it ApartmentGuide.com (Apartment Guide Printernet™). This website provide all information about apartments in the USA.

For example, I need to find apartment in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania). The small note, the Philly apartments are really best-sellers, Philadelphia is a city known for brotherly love, it's very pacified city.

According to Wikipedia, Philadelphia has the second largest Irish, Italian, Indian, and Jamaican populations and the fourth largest African American population in the nation. It is multinational state of the Northern America, here all get on.

To find apartment in Philadelphia it is not obligatory to torment a search engine with similar inquiries "Philadelphia apartments", enough to visit a specialised website! It easily and quickly!

Exclusive options for search of apartments

They give all the details like Price Range, Distance, Bedrooms, Apartment features, Bathrooms, Community features, Special features and other specialized staff. It is a very useful website for people who searches for the house or apartment for a rent.

Coop Himmelb(l)au will receive a prize for the future tower

Austrian architectural bureau Coop Himmelb(l)au will receive the award for ecological stability, Sustainability Award in 2010 year, within the limits of Architectural Review Future Project Awards which will organize the world summit of real estate MIPIM.

The Viennese prickle

The jury has awarded a tower covered with metal "skin" which architects have designed for the Viennese area Erdberg.

«Town Town»

The building is called “Town Town”. The design height will make 30 floors. The award will be awarded on March, 17th at official ceremony which will take place in Cannes.

Area of entertainments in Los Angeles

Building of a 54-storeyed tower in the centre of Los Angeles has ended. Hotels Ritz-Carlton Hotel both Residences and Marriott have opened the doors for visitors in a building designed by bureau Gensler.

Tower by L.A. LIVE

Tower building has finished project L.A. LIVE which assumed erection of the whole area for sports and entertainments, more sq.m. half-millions In a complex are located by the total area: TV-studio, restaurants, cafe, cinemas, bowling, clubs, an innovative musical museum.

Tower structure

The first 22 floors of a new tower are given Marriott, four following — to hotel Ritz-Carlton Hotel and all the others, to the top — to premises (Ritz-Carlton Residences). In the bottom building is placed two external "decks", with pools, bars and other services are equipped.

Among green components of the project — the combination has flown down also a colour facade for illumination and heating distribution, system on a water effective utilisation, solar panels on a roof.

Hotel progress

“The hotel becomes not only new sight of the centre, but also will make the huge contribution to our economy”, — the mayor of Los Angeles Antonio Villaraigosa has informed. “It's the real engine of progress which will create thousand new workplaces and will help to return activity to our city, having rendered service of world level for a world city.”

A Japanese Clinic for the Insane Persons

Psychiatric Clinic in Japan

The project of Japanese design bureau Nendo is an interior of clinic for insane persons which is in Tokyo. All these doors are continuous illusion. Patients and the personnel move on a building through special sections which open in walls. The clinic is called MD.net Clinic Akasaka. Walls and book shelves behind which rooms for consultations and conversations.

Akasaka Clinic. Tokyo (Japan)

From all train of doors opens unique, in the end of a corridor — behind a door the window in an external world is hidden. The clinic specializes on all kinds of mental frustration: here standard consultations of the psychiatrist, corporate consultation are carried out and there is a support to the patients who are coming back after illness to work.

Olympic constructions in Vancouver

Speed is an essence of competitions, sports, achievements, the basic component of Olympic games where compete: skiers, skaters, hockey players and other athletes. To accept the Winter Olympic Games this year, in Vancouver and district already existing buildings have been modernized and the new are constructed.

Cypress Mountain it is located around the western Vancouver. Competitions on freestyle and a snowboard Here will take place. For Games the new system on manufacture of snow and the water tank, new zones for spectators and a path for a parallel slalom has been constructed. Building of two stadiums has begun in May, 2006. In November of 2009, the platform for freestyle became the first constructed Olympic object.

Competitions on hockey will take place on two platforms, in Canada Hockey Place and on University of British Columbia Thunderbird Arena. For Olympic games has been converted Thunderbird Winter Sport Complex. The arena for competitions has been altered, is constructed two new ice skating rinks, one of which will be used for the competitions, the second — for trainings.

Has been constructed Vancouver Olympic/Paralympic Centre where competitions on curling will take place. The new arena from 6,000 spectator places and the adjoining akva-centre has been constructed.

Pacific Coliseum in Hastings Park

Competitions on figure skating and a short-track will take place in Pacific Coliseum in Hastings Park. Restoration works in park have begun in 1994 year. 16,000 spectator places have been replaced, the ice covering has been expanded to the international standard. For high-speed driving 400 metre track in a building by a total area of 33,750 sq.m. has been constructed.

Mounting skiing resort Whistler is considered one of the best in the world, Whistler annually receives 2 million visitors. Here to the Olympic Games descents have been converted, the additional system on snow manufacture has been constructed.

The Whistler Olympic/Paralympic Park is a zone the area 2 sq.km., on which three separate stadiums are located. It has been constructed about 14 km. Internal lines for ski walking and two separate five-kilometre loops, in addition to 8 km of training tracks. On Blackcomb Mountain has been constructed The Whistler Sliding Centre.

The Whistler Sliding Centre

Address sign & plaque — business cards for your house

Some people would ask, what's the use of adding an address plaques? It is just an burdensome expense or maybe visual adding one may not go well with my current design. So, they don't want to bother installing even elementary house address plaques.

Uniqueness or the ordinary?

But having address plaque and number can prove to be very helpful for a reconstruction of a favorable ex-terrier and with the different kinds of signs or address plaque now available in the market you can choose those that will harmoniously combine with your house. If you are feeling really creative, why not make it a project with the family and create your unique residence?

If you require a little convincing, here is several reason you might want to have address signs on your home. The main reason to put up unique address signs is to help out your friends, your postman etc find your house very easily.

Most cottage communities are growing steadily and with lots of cottages cropping up, finding a house can be tedious especially if you're badly or absolutely not familiar with the place.

Residence Personification

If your cottage has been without even wall address plaques for a long time already, I am pretty sure you get your share of guest not finding your cottage, or your not the local postman confusing your cottage with others. Putting up wall address plaques can really easily help solve this initialization problem.

An address sign or plaque can also be considered an additional decor to ex-terrier of your house. By simply picking out the one that would suit your current house style. Having one unique or a unusual plaque can also be an interesting addition to your own personal apartment.

The project of head office CBE

German architectural group Henn Architekten has won competition on the best civil-engineering design of head office Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE) in Addis Ababa.

Unusual way of the organisation

Thin office building will be executed with optical effect of «presence of hollow structures» at change of a point of the review. For the account of such unusual way of organization of base level of a building, some problems are reached — increased the areas of ground floors illuminated by natural light, interesting appearance of a design is created, is involved additional attention of visitors of the centre which bottom part it is planned to use as a trading complex that will cut expenses on building operation.

Commercial Bank of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa

At ceremony of rewarding of the architects who have presented the project — the winner of the tender, the president of bank has declared, that «the new approach to building and use of the main offices, the interesting and modern structure, planning with the account of last achievements of architecture and use of harmless technologies — all shows it, that the bank of Ethiopia leaves on the international level on all indicators».

Building Peter Mokaba Stadium is finished

At fans of football now on one joyful news more... Building Peter Mokaba Stadium — stadium in the city of Polokwane, capital of a province of Limpopo, the republic of South Africa — the basic platform for World championship carrying out on football 2010 Is finished!

Champion stadium in the republic of South Africa

Capacity of stadium: 45,000 places. Stadium forms are cast by flora traditional for district, namely, a plant a baobab. Elements of a design of a roof fasten special huge ramps. And durability of a design has been reached for the account of repetition of elements. Companies AFL Architects and local practice Prism also had been developed mechanisms of support of a roof.

Football stadium in Polokwane

Under the basic tribunes there are halls for a press — conferences, a parking and auxiliary premises.