For those who are not afraid of strong accent and original ideas. The bedroom is designed in a modern style, with dark tones centered on a dominant decorative wooden element. The combination of materials – wood, concrete, steel and glass gives the whole interior a chic and sophisticated feel. A ... Read More »
Architecture studio Paper House Project has added a double-height atrium surrounded by gridded windows to an apartment in a converted warehouse in east London. This former garment factory in Bethnal Green had previously been used as a commercial office before being converted into a large open plan live/work unit nearly ... Read More »
Spacelab architects rebuilds a one-storey villa of the 1980s located in Puszczykowo, Poland and completely reshape it to modern and convenient family home. The house was surrounded by a vast arboreous garden and had a great location, which finally affected the investors’ decision – instead of constructing a bigger building ... Read More »
Two Americans have been arrested and charged for allegedly helping to hack high-ranking US government officials. The US Department of Justice said Andrew Otto Boggs and Justin Gray Liverman were part of the “Crackas With Attitude” group blamed for the attacks. Email accounts of the CIA’s director, the chief of ... Read More »
Oil prices fell 4 percent on Friday, paring most of the previous session’s rise as traders noted that a tropical storm was behind this week’s unexpected slump in U.S. crude inventories. The market ended up around 3 percent, its first gain in three weeks. Traders cited hopes for a global ... Read More »
Popular actor and comedian Kapil Sharma’s tweet alleging corruption in Shiv Sena and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) rocked State’s political circles, as leaders right from Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis to Yuva Sena chief Aaditya Thackeray took immediate cognizance of it, assuring action if his claims are ... Read More »
Stocks across the globe fell the most since June on Friday, weighed by comments from Federal Reserve officials that lifted bets on an interest rate hike and after German trade data cast doubt on the strength of the euro zone’s largest economy. German exports fell sharply in July, shrinking the ... Read More »
Facebook has controversially removed the iconic image of a girl fleeing a Napalm attack during the Vietnam war from a post, on the grounds of nudity. The editor of Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten said the entire post, which was about iconic war imagery, was later deleted and the account of the ... Read More »
Investors rekindled their love affair with emerging markets this year, pouring billions of dollars into their stocks and bonds, but the prospect of the Federal Reserve raising U.S. interest rates threatens to cool the relationship once again. Higher U.S. rates and bond yields tend to make emerging market assets relatively ... Read More »
The ISRO is mulling over missions to Venus or an asteroid and is under discussions for these, apart from a second mission to Mars, ISRO Chairman A.S. Kiran Kumar said on Thursday. ISRO also has a number of launches in the coming years including the Chandrayaan-2 and a joint mission ... Read More »
Flows into commodity investments have hit their highest levels since the global financial crisis as negative interest rates boost the appeal of real assets, but they risk reversing as rallies falter in metals and oil. The threat of investors liquidating their commodity stakes has climbed in recent years as speculative ... Read More »
Norway’s Prime Minister has challenged Facebook’s restrictions on nude photos by posting the iconic 1972 image of a naked girl running from an aerial napalm attack in Vietnam. The Pulitzer Prize-winning image by Associated Press photographer Nick Ut is at the centre of a heated debate about freedom of speech ... Read More »
