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Traffic in the vicinity of Antarctica has become a bit trickier now that A23a, the world's oldest and largest iceberg, has broken free of its watery trap north of the South Orkney Islands and is floating northward on the Antarctic Circumpolar Current.Continue ReadingCategory: Environment, ScienceTags: Antarctic, British Antarctic Survey, Ice
Memorably described as "living hell" by Johnny Cash, San Quentin has long been one of the USA's most infamous prisons. However, it's now receiving a Nordic-style makeover that will focus on fostering a calming atmosphere of rehabilitation.Continue ReadingCategory: Architecture, LifestyleTags: Building and Construction, Prisons, California
Danish architecture studio Schmidt Hammer Lassen and American studio DLR Group have been selected to redesign California's San Quentin State Prison into a rehabilitation centre that will utilise a "Nordic model". Read more
Local architecture studio CookFox Architects has unveiled plans to renovate a former women's prison in Chelsea into "100 per cent" affordable housing. Read more
in october 2019,JR created a massive mural with prisoners at tehachapi, one of california's most violent maximum-security prisons. The post JR’s tehachapi prison documentary premieres in theaters across france appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.
the pavilion features works by various artists, including maurizio cattelan, claire fontaine, corita kent, and marco perego & zoe saldana. The post the vatican pavilion takes shape within a women’s prison at the venice art biennale appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.
a former women's prison in berlin finds new purpose as the wilmina hotel, envisioned by bette and grüntuch ernst architekten. The post bette bathrooms transform wilmina hotel from prison to luxury hospitality space appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.
the HOSHINOYA nara prison hotel - which is set to open in spring 2026 - will update its interiors while maintaining its preserved red-brick architecture. The post former prison and detention center in nara, japan will reopen as starred red-brick hotel appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.
In order to smuggle illegal drugs into prisons, people are now soaking materials like paper and fabric in such drugs, letting the materials dry, then passing them along to inmates. A new portable device, however, sees through that ruse.Continue ReadingCategory: Good Thinking, LifestyleTags: University of Bath, Drugs, Detection, Fluorescent, Ultraviolet


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