by Dianna Dilworth – August 1, 2007 via BusinessWeek.Com

Foster + Partners is designing the world’s first zero-carbon, zero-waste city in Abu Dhabi. Named Masdar City, which means “the source,” the 1,483-acre project will include commercial and manufacturing space dedicated to developing ecofriendly products, housing, a university, and the headquarters for Future [...]

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August 1, 2007 via dezeen.com
Mini have announced the launch of the new Clubman, a “stretch” version of the new Mini based on the old Morris Mini estate versions the Traveller, the Countryman and the Clubman Estate.

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by Matt Hussey – August 01, 2007 via TheCoolHunter.Net
We don’t know about you, but school wasn’t exactly the most inspiring of places. Concrete bunkers for buildings, concrete tennis courts for ‘recreation’ and food that tasted, well, like concrete. Yes, school did sound like a brutalist architects dream. But, Reynar Banham was nowhere to be seen.

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