List/Grid Monthly Archives: March 2012
![Earth Hour 2012: 8.30pm, Saturday 31 March [Official Video]](http://urbanpeek.com/wp-content/themes/channelpro/timthumb.php?src=http://urbanpeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/4462568244_764c7cbb97_b2.jpg&h=400&w=596&a=t&zc=1)
This year at 8:30pm, Saturday 31 March is Earth Hour 2012, the world’s celebration of an action for the planet by switching off lights for an hour, then go beyond the hour. From 8:30 pm to 9:30 pm and within those 60 minutes, millions of people across the world will turn off their lights to raise awareness of climate changes taking place. Many monuments and landmarks across the world will turn off their lights and take part in this event. From its start as a single-city initiative by Sydney, Australia in 2007, Earth Hour has grown into a global symbol of hope and movement for change. In 2011, Earth…
Tanzania’s Singita Grumeti Reserves Faru Faru lodge, named the best hotel in the world in 2011 by Travel + Leisure magazine’s 16th annual World’s Best Awards, it received a score of 98.44 out of 100 on a list based on reader surveys and feedback. Located at Serengeti National Park, the hotel is made up of two lodges and a tent camp, offers unparalleled luxury in the thick of the wild. The reserve’s flagship is Sasakwa, an East African ranch house set on a plateau with panoramic views of the plains. The lodge’s wood-paneled libraries have an English country club feel, and there are seven cottage residences, each with…
A harsh year of clean-up has passed since the immense 9.0-magnitude earthquake that struck Japan, triggering a destructive tsunami wave. The moving wall of water caused a widespread wipe-out, leaving almost 22,000 people dead or missing and unleashing a nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Check out the before & after imagery of the destruction at the time of the disaster and how those areas look now after the massive clean-up job. A cruise ship lies on the roof of a two-storey holiday home after the tsunami disaster. A year on, the area around the home is ready for new…
Esther Stocker, Italian installation artist born in Silandro, Italy, has created a number of minimal geometrical rooms with abstract ambiguities.
![The Scale of the Universe – from Micro to Colossal by Cary Huang [An Interactive Flash]](http://urbanpeek.com/wp-content/themes/channelpro/timthumb.php?src=http://urbanpeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/preview-50-3292.jpg&h=400&w=596&a=t&zc=1)
The Scale of the Universe, an inspiring interactive animation by Cary Huang, displaying an entertaining and detailed comparison between different creatures and objects that exists within our universe. Starting at the microscopic scale of DNAs and nuclei up to the colossal scales of stars and galaxies, shinning an immense contrast on the size of a human being compared to just about everything else. Try it yourself! Press Start, wait shortly for it load, use the right/ left scroll bar for zooming in and out, and click on any object for some brief info, Enjoy the knowledge!
An expressive photo session, by Maurits Giesen and Ilse Leenders of GiesenLeenders from Rotterdam, Netherlands, aimed at symbolizing the power of human adaptability to different conditions and surroundings, by picking up habits and going with the flow.
Photographer, director and editor José Costa Barbosa made this heart-warming time-lapse video of Lisbon, Portugal, showing a corner of Europe many of us might not be familiar with.
A playful spontaneous atmosphere, that some would refer to as anything else but a work place, was exactly the approach taken by the Saachi & Saachi’s creative director.
Architects at Es Arch – Enrico Scaramellini Architetto refurbished an old existing barn In the village of Isola, Madesimo, Italy, into a contemporary duplex named Casa Up.
Guest Post by Hatem Wagih | A building in the name of God, This is how History Channel documented this Church, the Crystal Cathedral designed by American Institute of Architects’ gold-medal winner, Philip Johnson, with his partner, John Burgee, Johnson has called the Crystal Cathedral his “capo lavoro”…the crowning achievement of his career…a dream fulfilled.
