As JLR prepares the first electric Range Rover for launch, it is also gearing up to reveal the most extreme V8-powered 4×4 it has yet produced. The Defender Octa will be revealed on 3 July as a highly exclusive and extremely capable super-off-roader, which is set to use the twin-turbocharged, mild-hybrid 4.4-litre V8 from BMW, […]
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Demolition is underway on one of the few East Coast buildings designed by the late Anthony Lumsden, a colleague of Cesar Pelli and former member of the “LA 12,” a group of California-based modernist architects. Contractors are taking down the Bard Building, a five-story structure that Lumsden designed for Baltimore City Community College when he
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Modern architecture and ocean liners are close cousins, if not immediate siblings. A revolution in one discipline tends to signal that change is coming for the other. In Towards a New Architecture, Le Corbusier revealed his obsession with the RMS Aquitania—a 3,230-person cruise ship designed by Leonard Peskett that first set sail in 1913. For
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The Principles Of Classical Conditioning In Learning Physiologist Ivan Pavlov was experimenting with dogs’ digestion when he accidentally discovered that they associated different sounds with feeding. Since he rang a bell at feeding time, the dogs learned to associate that sound with food. So, while at first they would salivate only when presented with their
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In a large drop from February, the AIA’s Architecture Billings Index (ABI) for March has reported a decline in billings for the 14th consecutive month. The score for March was a low 43.6, down from 49.5—a 5.6 difference. Any score below 50 marks a decline in billings from the previous month. In February, the AIA
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In Bavaria, Germany, construction broke ground this week on a new kindergarten partially made of timber for Munich’s Technical University (TUM) by Kéré Architecture. The children’s center is sited at Gabelsbergerstrasse 41, Munich, tucked between TUM’s main campus and the university canteen. It will be formally called Ingeborg Pohl Kinderoase an der TUM after the
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Skoda has unveiled an outlandish electric single-seater concept for the Playstation racing game Gran Turismo. The Skoda Vision Gran Turismo is a totally unique four-wheel-drive racer, designed to “attract new fans” to the Skoda brand, according to CEO Klaus Zellmer. The digital racer gets a 268bhp electric motor on each wheel for a combined output of 1072bhp and
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In South Bend, Indiana, the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art by Robert A.M. Stern Architects (RAMSA) opened its doors in December for the University of Notre Dame. The neoclassical art museum features numerous site-specific artworks including custom-made stained glass windows by Italian sculptor and painter Mimmo Paladino. The new 70,000-square-foot building is sited in the
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The end of World War II ushered in an era of prosperity for Brazil. The period brought with it economic growth, new port facilities, revamped roads, burgeoning agriculture, new technology, and the arrival of new materials. As is often the case with changing economic and political landscapes, art and architecture followed suit. From the 1940s
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