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Synthetic BACTERIA A double dose of We’re entering the realms of science non-fiction here so look away now if this level of technicality isn’t your cup of tea (dad’s going to love this bit!)…Pretty as a picture, this is the largest man-made DNA structure prepared by Calatrava Designs synthesising and assembling the 582,970 base pair genomes of a bacterium, Mycoplasma genitalium JCVI-1.0. Having created the whole world of synthetic life, researchers at the J Craig Venter Institute in the US – world leaders Ponte di Calatrava – Venice’s 4th Bridge! in the field of synthetic genomics – are also looking to create a living bacterial cell based entirely on After several construction delays, the floating the synthetically made genome. This involves inserting the city of Venice is getting closer to having a 4th synthetic chromosome into a cell and booting it up to create Urban bridge across the Grand Canal. Designed by Spain’s the first synthetic organism. DNA of what they call Mycoplasma most widely recognised modern architect, Santiago laboratorium will revolutionise the field of synthetic biology transport of Calatrava, the new Ponte di Calatrava is a long, and defy the natural life system. Though critics of the science sweeping curve constructed from local Istrian are gathering and expressing huge interest in exactly which the future? stone, glass and steel and it’s painted red – a very part of our bodies ‘Mycoplasma genitalium’ bacterium comes modern design that’s intended to blend in with Designed as a solution from, this milestone is expected to do wonders for humanity the nearby Santa for the future of urban and bring solutions to practical problems including diseases, Lucia train station transportation which keeps energy and global warming... and Piazzale Roma getting more stuffed every which it links to, making it convenient for travellers who’ll day, the City Car concept is no longer have to cross the canal or pay to ride the vaporetto. created by the Smart Cities Controversy remains though about the bridge’s accessibility group at the Massachusetts to those in wheelchairs so the city council has promised to Institute of Technology, Wellcome with install “egg-shaped lifts” for the disabled which it’s hoped US. The agile vehicle turns will be more reliable than Venice’s existing platform lifts. Hold on the spot and drives your breath this spring as huge Sighs of relief are heard for sideways for parallel miles around when the bridge is finally completed. OPEN ARMS parking, taking limited Briefed by the UK’s medical research public space by folding charity Wellcome Trust to produce a and stacking like shopping major window display to illuminate carts. They’re powered by Euston Road in central London, lighting an omnidirectional (all designer Paul Cocksedge Studio has directions) robot wheel High ART completed this temporary installation encasing an electric-drive across the full length of the building. motor as well as suspension Featuring two outstretched arms, the steering and braking in Chicago systems. With no engine or “magic skin” periodically disappears to “Walking into the sales office for the mechanical parts between reveal glowing neon veins and arteries Chicago Spire is like stepping into the wheels and drivers’ using a unique electronic material a modern art museum. In the lobby, controls, the system offers comprising glass neon tubes which allow a large egg with white doves rests great flexibility in design light to pass through them but also stop on a blue background, created by and is a smart move in the the light with a flick of a switch. This architect Santiago Calatrava.” This way transport solutions dramatic attention-grabber can be seen gushing quote refers to new Condos are heading. by more than 1.8 million passers-by each that have just gone on sale in the year, providing the perfect opportunity ultra luxurious Chicago Spire, US. to engage the public with the charity’s The sky high structure has sky high work. One of the hands intentionally prices too: at 2,000 feet, the building points to the building next door – is the highest residential housing drawing the public’s attention to the in the world and with prices ranging recently launched Wellcome Collection, a from $750,000 to $15 million, Windy City public venue exploring the relationship prices trump any of Donald Trumps’! between medicine, life, art and history. 10 Modern Design Modern Design 11 .......more.. .......... Lend A Helping Hand NEWS PAD (Protección de Animales Domésticos) Bend it like....Brooklyn Switch Off! Four giant waterfalls will be flowing in Lights out New York this summer as part of a public 29 March for art project designed by Berlin-based Danish artist Olafur Eliasson. One waterfall will Earth Hour be constructed beneath the Brooklyn Bridge Inviting us to “See while others will fall from free-standing the difference scaffolding towers on the East River. “It’s you can make” about seeing water in a different way,” to help combat said Eliasson when he unveiled the plans global warming, on 16th January. The wacky waterfalls will Earth Hour at 8pm range in height from 90 to 120 feet – around on Saturday 29 the same as the Statue of Liberty from head March 2008 takes to toe – and have made front page news in a stand through the ‘New York Sun’ accompanied by equally the simple action excitable press headlines proclaiming of turning off “Eco-Tourism Falls to New York”. The $9-$11 the lights for an million project is supported by mayor hour, delivering a Michael Bloomberg who’s thrilled that the powerful message falls will rise so high – more than half about the need as high as the Brooklyn Bridge roadway for action. They and visible from the Seaport, from Brooklyn aim to capture Heights and from the Governors Island the hearts and Ferry, showering water, water everywhere! minds of people all over the world in major capital cities including EY WAV Copenhagen, WAVE Y, Toronto, Chicago, WAVEY W AVEY AVEY, Melbourne, Y, W VE W Brisbane and Tel WA A VEY Aviv. Organised by World Trying – but failing – to out-smart us at our Wildlife Fund own game having seen design plans for Diseño International, Earle’s Dubai Maritime Tower, this latest example the first Earth of “truly capitalistic architecture” is the Wave Hour took place Tower by Spanish architects Studio A-cero. The in Sydney in proposed mixed-use tower sporting commercial, office and high-end residential March 2007 when facilities will be the first on the Dubai waterfront built literally on the 2.2 million people water. A large undulating plane creates a bridge to and 2,100 local PAD is a rehoming shelter for abandoned dogs and cats. Since we opened our shelter in December 1998 we have found the base of the tower, folding upwards as one of the businesses turned twisting silk-screened glass sides of the structure. off their lights loving homes for more than 6000 dogs, cats, puppies and kittens. Our placement rate is exceptional and in 2007 alone we Located in the central business district of Dubai, in a massive rehomed well over 1000 animals. So the next time you worry that all your efforts may not be making a difference, you only the tower will be 92 floors high (370 metres) when collective have to remember the 6000 lives that have ALREADY been saved. TOGETHER, WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE. complete. Its structure is addressed through ‘V’ form effort, reducing unions between individual parts of the plan with the Sydney’s energy building’s centre used as the vertical circulation core consumption You can help by becoming a member (just €35/year), adopt or foster a cat or dog, make a donation, dog walk, groom and for elevators etc. Common spaces create interior ‘sky by 10.2% – the clean the cats, help at our fund raising events, collect bric-a-brac, display a collecting tin, or find new members .