Developer Ballymore Group and landscape architect Camlins recently unveiled plans for central London's new Linear Park. Inspired by the New York High-Line, the park is envisioned as a critical connector and people-magnet for the new Embassy Gardens housing development by the Ballymore Group. The kilometer-long green space is located at the center of this new development, which is a part of the larger Nine Elms development headed by the Ballymore Group and masterplanned by London architect Sir Terry Farrell.

 

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Every year, the city of Eindhoven in the Netherlands transforms into a luminous metropolis during the Glow festival, a week-long celebration of art and light. This amazing Cupola dome created by Luminarie De Cagna was made from over 30,000 LED lights. Taking cues from the architecture of the Renaissance, the 25-meter-tall building was erected around the city's large bronze sculpture of Anton Philips, a figure considered to be the modern father of Eindhoven.

 

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With bottled water and potable tap water both so readily available in developed countries, it’s easy to take clean drinking water for granted. But when natural disasters strike, one of the first things to sell out on store shelves is bottled water, and running water may be either turned off or compromised by pollutants. Domestic water purifying pitchers and faucet filters are perfectly fine for every day use, but most of them simply weren’t designed to filter untreated water like the kind you may need to drink in emergency situations. Unlike those other off-the-shelf, refrigerator-sized water filters, Big Berkey water filters were actually made to purify water from untreated sources like remote lakes, streams and stagnant ponds and are used by relief organizations such as UNICEF, the Peace Corps, and the Red Cross. They use a much more powerful filtration system that removes harmful pathogenic bacteria, cysts, parasites,