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Modern!!

BBC North is one of the most ambitious projects in the BBC's history. Opening a new creative hub in the North of England was motivated not only by a commitment to spend the licence fee more fairly across the UK but also to get closer to audiences across the region.

More choice, less space
Taking the lead from the vibrancy of shared spaces and amenities found in cities, BBC North has been designed to capture this vibrancy, offering more choice in less space. Amenity-centric rather than desk-centric, the workplace supports agile working across a variety of desirable work settings tailored to a range of activities, whether holding a team meeting, making a phone call, editing content, having an informal catch up, tweeting or blogging. It even doubles as a studio space, providing the backdrop to a variety of broadcasts.

The 'meeting pods' that line the atrium of one of the three buildings at MediaCityUK in Salford have created an iconic
image for BBC North. Transforming dead space at the edge of atrium, too narrow for desks or rooms, these
visually striking pods, referencing digital pixels in form and colour, have created both focus spaces and intimate
collaboration opportunities within the most public of places, connecting all to a marvellous view with the open
atrium. These are spaces designed for people which also meet ID:SR's brief from the BBC: to provoke a smile!

Activity-Driven Design
Applying their activity-driven design approach, ID:SR worked with the BBC to create a design solution that would allow them to work more effectively and creatively in less, more efficient space. They launched an intensive and energised programme of user engagement. Over a period of seven months the process included interviews, feedback sessions and people profiling in addition to building workshops, show and tell and look and feel sessions. Coupled with the findings from the workshops, benchmarking, research and empirical analysis of the BBC's current space and work patterns informed the vision for the new BBC North workplace.

Kit of Parts
As the BBC was leasing its new buildings from a developer, the fit-out needed to be sculpted between the Cat A. ID:SR's solution was a flexible 'kit of parts', a series of related joinery items which would sit within the base build structure creating a variety of semi-enclosed spaces. Minimal impact to the sub structure of the buildings meant that this approach was not only flexible and cost-effective, but also offered a sustainable and future-proof solution. Designed with 'velcro and wheels' flexibility these spaces are easy to reconfigure, allowing people to ebb and flow and also allowing work patterns to evolve alongside advances in digital technologies.

Currently (December 2011), the BBC is just over half way through a 36-week migration. By April 2012, 2,300 people will work for the BBC at MediaCityUK with an additional 1,000 posts scheduled to join them on site by the end of 2017 - an increase which will be effected without alteration to ID:SR's original design.

Colour and materials
ID:SR set out to design BBC North's new workplace as a vibrant city with the variety and texture to suit. Each of the three buildings has a slightly different look and feel with the basic type of form, material and finish the same. ID:SR was inspired by both the digital colour palette and the natural colours and texture found in British-sourced fabrics. Test card colours including magenta, lime green, purple and black and white, run throughout the design scheme, balanced and modulated by summer and autumnal colours such as the heather, purple and fresh green colours woven through the traditional Melin Tregywnt spotty fabric.

Carpet was key to the design, conceived as a 'digital tapestry' that not only expresses the digital age but also helps to define areas and assists with wayfinding within the open plan working environments. Coloured lighting also assists in wayfinding, identifying shared amenities across the floors.

From the outset of the project, the BBC was committed to supporting local manufacturing and local products. With up to 73% of products and materials manufactured in the UK, BBC North has benefited from a wide range of local talent and skill.

"It was just a case of wow, just wow ['] it makes you want to be part of something big, something new,
something exciting", Helen Skelton, Blue Peter presenter, on BBC North at MediaCityUK.


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Bizarreyyy....

Hou Gouzhu, now 11 years old, had half of his skull removed as a child because of Rasmussen's Encephalitis. Two years ago, when he was 8, photos of him and his father splashed across Chinese and international media. He was quickly dubbed "half-brain boy" and many felt sympathy for the son and his father, who said they had spent every penny they owned on Hou's medical treatments, and couldn't even afford the ticket back to their home in Shandong province.







Since then, donations have poured fourth and Hou was able to undergo cosmetic surgery. He was fitted with a skull made of titanium mesh, effectively giving him half his head back!



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WTF

Just for laugh




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Amazing!!

It might look like it's straight out of a sci-fi movie, but this natural wonder is completely real, and fully awe inspiring. Mount Roraima, bordered by three different countries (Venezuela, Brazil and Guyana) whose border lines intersect on the massive shelf, is surrounded on all four sides by sheer 400-meter high cliffs. While its cliff walls are only scalable by the most experienced of climbers, there is a hiking path up the mountain's natural ramp-like path (usually a two-day hike). However, the mountain is worth a visit for more reasons than its impressive cliffs.





Mount Roraima, part of Venezuela's 30000-square-kilometer Canaima National Park, is the site of the highest peak of the country of Guyana's Highland Range. The mountains of this range, including Roraima, are considered to be some of the oldest geological formations known, some dating back to two-billion years ago. Its near daily rains have also created a unique ecosystem which includes several endemic species, including a unique carnivorous pitcher plant, and some of the highest waterfalls in the world. Culturally, the mountain has long held significance to the indigenous people of the area and features prominently in their myths and folklore. It was also the inspiration for the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's novel, The Lost World as well as for Paradise Falls in the 2009 Pixar film, Up.

TRANSFORM!!

This comfortable style is simple and contemporary maximize space in the most tangible possible. Two chairs are embedded in the comfortable creating the sensation of four drawers extras. The handles of the chairs also meet functional purpose as well as extraction time saving. Materials: finger joint Eucalyptus grandis. Aluminum handles.





Materials: finger joint Eucalyptus grandis. Aluminum handles.

Genius!!

Bad..

Hellingly Hospital was a large mental hospital in the village of Hellingly, east of Hailsham, in East Sussex, England. The hospital, also known as East Sussex County Asylum or just Hellingly, was opened in 1903. Its architect was GT Hine, one of the great asylum architects of the era.The hospital boasted its own railway line, the Hellingly Hospital Railway, used principally for transport of coal. This branch line led from the main line to the boilerhouse. The hospital also had a vast laundry, ball room, patients' shop, sewing rooms, nurses home, extensive grounds, and an advanced utilities network for its time, including a large boilerhouse and a water tower.









It followed the compact arrow plan for the main hospital, with separate villas surrounding this. The majority of the hospital closed throughout 1994, however, and to this day much of the 25.4 hectare site stands derelict and extremely run down, after suffering repeated vandalism and multiple arson attacks.


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DAMN NICE!!


"Blueseed says U.S. immigration law is choking the flow of "bold and creative" entrepreneurs into Silicon Valley. So it's building a floating IT fortress where entrepreneurs can be bold and creative right next to Silicon Valley without actually setting foot on U.S. soil."


Dedicating to keeping Silicon Valley the world's center for innovation, Blueseed ceo Max Marty thinks he has found a solution to dealing with US immigration laws. Backed by PayPal founder Peter Thiel may be a promising asset but a project of this nature is sureto raise a lot of controversy. Marty, however seems quite confident that the first vessel will up and running within a year and half.


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NICE!!

Another year, another chance for the Kardashian-Jenner clan to glam it up for the holidays!
Both Kim and Kourtney took to their blogs this morning to unveil the family's 2011 Christmas card and, much like the one
from last season, the whole gang has once again gone all-out to put everybody else's season's greetings to shame.
Because this time around, they've definitely stepped it up a notch!

It turns out the new family photo-taken by famed photographer Nick Saglimbeni, who shot a 3-D Kim Kardashian
magazine spread earlier this year-can be viewed in both 2-D and 3-D. (With the appropriate glasses, of course.)
"I love our family Christmas card shoots and I think this one looks amazing!' Kim wrote on her blog.
"There's nothing I love more than getting together for the Christmas card shoot!" added Kourtney on her respective blog.
"I love everyone's matching bow ties!"

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TOP SECRET!!

Located in Sweden, Musko underground military facility is the world's largest underground military facility. Used for the Naval Station. Built under a granite mountain, so It's impossible to destroy with cannon, fragmentation bomb bunker even though the nuclear missiles. Musko used to manufacture ships Frigate, Destroyer ships and submarines has the longest pier reaches 350 meters.







There was a repair ship, hospital, dining rooms, barracks, mall, meeting rooms, etc. All under the mountain. There is also hospital. If there is a war thousands of soldiers wounded / injured could be treated inside the hospital with a capacity of 1000 beds reach.