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02/05/2019

A dog may be man's best friend, but a child's best friend is a puppy 🥰

02/05/2019

The Porsche 956/962 was most famous with Rothmans livery. In 1982 new Group C rules ushered in restricted fuel usage but enticingly allowed for completely free engine development. Porsche's reliable but stillborn IndyCar engine was its weapon of choice but everything else on its 956 race car was new. Porsche's first monocoque chassis.

02/05/2019

Finally, an Aston Martin Vantage with a third pedal. This is the new Vantage AMR, a limited-run version of Aston’s V8 sports car that comes with a stick shift.

Not just any stick shift, either a dogleg one. That means first gear is to the very left and back, with gears two to seven in the usual H-pattern layout.

02/05/2019

The structures will feature surfaces that comprise a small number of geometric shapes, a hallmark of Mayan architectural history.

Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA), one of the most venerable names in the world of architecture, has spent decades separating itself from other firms by designing swooping silhouettes and sharp angles into their famous structures. Yet, with their latest project, a series of recently unveiled luxury apartm...

02/05/2019

To make this building perform so well, Nordic subjected every design decision to a careful environmental assessment.

As just about every building type has been pushed toward greater energy efficiency, airports have been something of a stubborn holdout, relics of a more consumptive era. In Oslo, though, a new expansion to the city’s existing airport provides another, more sustainable way of designing these struct...

02/05/2019

The contest will also be broken down into two categories: one track centered on sustainable infrastructure projects for the canal itself, and another for tourism-themed programs in its local communities.

A lot has changed since construction on the Erie Canal began 200 years ago. The 524 total miles of waterways that would eventually connect the Hudson River to the Great Lakes still stands as a towering public works achievement, having transformed areas of upstate New York into thriving centers of co...

02/05/2019

Unlike other cities with high scores for architecture in this year’s survey, Las Vegas has no Beaux Arts buildings to speak of.

In 1947, writer John Gunther named Knoxville, Tennessee, the “ugliest city” he visited during his 13-month-long transcontinental survey of the United States. Spurred by the insult (which was made famous in Gunther’s best-selling guide, Inside U.S.A.), Knoxville officials began a city-wide beau...

02/05/2019

Roughly one mile away from the Apothecarium is Grass Roots. Established in 2005, Grass Roots has been around longer than most modern dispensaries

With each passing year, it seems the societal taboos around ma*****na are slowly fading into thin air. Consider, for example, the following fact: According to a recent Gallup Poll, support for cannabis legalization in the U.S. is up to 60 percent—an all-time high. What's more, 28 states and the Di...

01/05/2019

What greater gift than the love of a cat 🥰

01/05/2019

Books. Cats. Life is Good.

01/05/2019

Take in all the sketching goodness and be sure to get our exclusive On-the-Go Sketching Collection

Enjoy the gorgeous fall colors of the turning leaves against crisp blue skies. Marc takes you for a fun “tour” and gives us all the insight we need on how to make the scenes we see come alive through watercolor sketching. Take in all the sketching goodness and be sure to get our exclusive On-the...

01/05/2019

If you start to look at things in terms of basic shapes, whether your reference is three-dimensional (an object) or two-dimensional (a photo) or simply in your imagination.

Wherever you live, you likely don’t live alone. Not when you consider the birds in your backyard or the pigeons on the sidewalk or seagulls cawing at you if you live along the coast. Birds are a constant companion for many of us and yet we can forget to explore them in our art. Take birds as your ...