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...European market. The cutting-edge domiciles are quick to assemble, energy efficient and fitted with cool customized features. Here's a peek at some of the more intriguing prefab abodes and holiday hideaways. THE LOFTCUBE - STUDIO AISSLINGER www.aisslinger.de Inspired by Berlin's postwar high-rises, the Loftcube can be craned or helicoptered onto your rooftop as an open-space pied-à-terre or office. The "personal home container" can be completed in three days and you can even do it yourself with friends if you're handy. Prices start at $95,200 - excluding crane time. THE PAD www.padlife.co.uk A London...
...throw a wrench into other people's plans. Zhongshan didn't need more flowers, Yu told the city officials; it didn't need fountains, ornate wrought-iron fences, or hedges shaped like animals. Instead of bulldozing the shipyard, he proposed, they could put it to new use. A gantry crane would make an interesting gate, a crumbling water tower could become the base of a lighted beacon. Instead of grass, the city should grow weeds. Zhongshan's leaders found the plan unsettling. "We wanted something distinctive, but this made us nervous," says He Shaoyang, then head of the city...
...weekly mitigation meetings, neighbors of the construction project fixated on getting Harvard to stop using high sulfur diesel in the site’s excavation crane, arguing that the exhaust spewing forth from the trucks and construction equipment posed a threat to the health of neighbors and students...
While you were working on your tenth strawberry daq of the day while passed out on the beach in Mexico, the members of the Harvard Tai Chi Tiger Crane Club were eating fried scorpions in China. Jaime Gaurnaccia ’08, David Henderson ’07, Thomas Lowe ’05, Brenda Wong, the fitness trainer at the Business School, and high school senior Jimmy Cheung traveled East for intersession with Master Yon Lee, who’s been the club’s teacher and senior advisor for 20 years. In China, they got to participate...
...British modernist Lynn Chadwick was hacked from its plinth. One of a trio of figures, The Watchers, it is valued at $1 million - far less than the $5.4 million price tag on Henry Moore's 2.5-ton Reclining Figure that in December was lifted, using a stolen flatbed crane, from the grounds of the late artist's foundation in Hertfordshire. William Webber of the Art Loss Register, which tracks the lucrative global market in stolen art, says "it's difficult to know where they might end up." Despite their size and fame, he adds, "There's definitely a market...