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Check out this Reflective Pavilion by Norman Foster!
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Check out this Reflective Pavilion by Norman Foster!
“Just Another Morning in Paris” by Kah Kit Yoong
a true wheel rides strong. a true soul never wavers.
my first thought when i saw this pic was darling, do you even ride? then i noticed her lycra short tan and after a quick google search, low and behold, Marion Rousse is the 21 year old female road cycling champion of France. don’t agree with how she’s being portrayed here … but girl’s got legs.
kids sleeping while riding up a mountain in burgundy, france.
(Source: Flickr / henryinamsterdam)
Paris Métro Map Mosaic Wall
This has the subway mural in Brooklyn beat, I feel.
This awesome tiled map of the 13th arrondisement covers the whole wall of this building (which I’m guessing is located where the red lines on the map intersect), complete with street names, parks, and Metro stations. It looks like the route lines are neon lighting, just for that extra cool factor. The whole thing has a great 8-bit art feeling to it which I love.
(Source: Pierre MM/Flickr)
Cycling on some of Europe’s most iconic and picturesque bike touring routes through Spain, France and Italy; the Hannibal expedition has it all.
- Stage 1 - Barcelona to Avignon
- Stage 2 - Avignon to Gavi
- Stage 3 - Gavi to Rome
- The Epic!
omg.
(video is just a bbc clip of the route, nothing super)
Robert Doisneau, 100. via google.
The hybrid design makes a lot of sense, but we wonder if having a name-brand designer simply invites thievery.
Following the wild success of custom-designed public bicycles in Paris and Copenhagen, Bordeaux will be the latest metropolis to unveil its very own city bike, by French design dynamo Philippe Starck. A twist: It’s a bike and a scooter rolled into one.
fastcodesign, 21.02.12.
If California/America doesn’t get high speed rail..
US is gonna lag way behind.
I always fly home from SD to the Bay. 1.5h flight time. Convenient. Definitely beats an 8h drive. But airplanes—heavy polluters. I’d (and I’m sure many others would) like another choice of transportation.
If California HSR: San Diego to SF Bay Area: 4.5h.
Train travel: no security check. don’t need to get to the station an hour early. even more convenient! less pollution. etc.
There’s so much more to HSR, and I’m not an expert, but:
California voters voted for this! Can we get this built already???! There will be $$$$$ out of this, I’m sure.
photos: The french high speed train my mom and I took from Zürich to Paris, aug.2010.
Two Occupy protesters in London at the end of October. “Sometime after 2008,” says Habermas, “I understood that the process of expansion, integration and democratization doesn’t automatically move forward of its own accord, that it’s reversible, that for the first time in the history of the EU, we are actually experiencing a dismantling of democracy. I didn’t think this was possible. We’ve reached a crossroads.”
spiegel.de, 25.11.11.