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  Antoni Gaudí: a guide to the architect’s magical world

  Wallpaper* - Ellie Stathaki

  The work of Antoni Gaudí is the kind of architecture that stops you in your tracks. Dynamic, colourful, exuberant – but also highly calculated, craft-rich and precious – the designs of the Catalan master have more than stood the test of time. His buildings, expressive and decorative, are staples in …

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  14 hours ago

  How to create a native landscape in 2025 – experts reveal eco-friendly gardening secrets to transform your plot

  Homes & Gardens - Thomas Rutter

  If you are thinking about making your yard more sustainable or eco-friendly in the coming year, have you considered creating a native landscape? To …

• Maybe hundreds of millions of enormous metal tanks to move around a few hundred pound humans isn’t a good ideas regardless of the fuel source.

  

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  9 hours ago

  Child labour: Nigeria’s lithium mines reveal the dark side of our electric future

  Euronews - By Jerry Fisayo-Bambi & Ruth Wright with AP

  Children as young as five-years-old were found to be working in one illegal mine. Electric vehicles, laptops, battery packs, smartphones...it's a long …

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  Congress Must Repeal Its Cap on Public Housing Now

  commondreams.org - Jordan Billings

  Randall Irvin has been waiting for public housing in Chicago for six years, and his situation is not that unusual. For example, there are over …

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  12 hours ago

  How Medieval Islamic Engineering Brought Water to the Alhambra

  openculture.com - Colin Marshall

  Between 711 and 1492, much of the Iberian Peninsula, including modern-day Spain, was under Muslim rule. Not that it was easy to hold on to the place …

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  11 hours ago

  What to know about wooden high-rises and ‘mass timber’ buildings

  Fast Company - BY The Conversation

  The sustainability of mass timber will be determined in part by which forests supply this new demand. A material that’s been around since people built shelters—wood—is increasingly being proposed for low- and mid-rise buildings. Companies behind these “mass timber” projects say that wood is a …