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Designing an Island

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Designing an Island

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Architects often create presentations and bids for projects, and are pitted against other firms to win the work. But rarely do firms get the chance to design an entire island. There was recently a winner for the South Sea Pearl Eco-Island competition. The entirely new island is to be built in the Chinese Bay of Hainan, and the proposals required housing, hotels, tourist attractions, as well as room for two cruise ships to dock. Take a look at the impressive proposal designs, including the winner, Diller, Scofidio + Benfro. Via Arch Daily, h/t to JM.
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Google Doodle

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Google Doodle

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Today’s Google Doodle honors the life of Phoebe Snetsinger.

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From CNet by Michelle Starr:

Passionate and dedicated birder Phoebe Snetsinger, born in 1931, remains one of the world’s most prolific. At the time of her death, in 1999, she had seen 8,398 species of the estimated 10,000 known species in the world, more than anyone else in history at the time. On June 9, 2016, she would have been 85, and Google is remembering her life with a special Doodle. She lived 18 more years after her diagnosis, and died in a bus crash, not from her cancer.

Snetsinger’s interest in birds was piqued in 1965, when she spotted a Blackburnian Warbler, but she didn’t become truly dedicated until 1981, when, at the age of 50, she was diagnosed with terminal melanoma, with just one year to live. Rather than spend that time at home, Snetsinger took herself to Alaska…

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