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Lebanese architect Lina Ghotmeh has created a brick workshop in Louviers, France, for luxury brand Hermès that is the first industrial building to achieve France's highest environmental labelling.The wood-framed Maroquinerie de Louviers workshop, located in Hermès' hub in Normandy, was built from over 500,000 bricks produced by local brick-makers located 70 kilometres from the site.

Indian architect Sanjay Puri has joined Dezeen Awards 2023 as a judge.Here, he selects five projects that best reflect his studio's work.Puri, the principal architect and founder of Mumbai-based architecture firm Sanjay Puri Architects, describes his practice as "exploratory, constantly evolving to create spaces".

When walking into a covered space, the last thing I pay attention to is the roof.I will probably look around but not really look up, unless there's a compelling reason to do so.There are creative designers out there that are thinking of ways to apply innovative concepts and materials to not just create something beautiful but add to the aesthetics of the structure or space that it occupies.

We had another spoilt morning on Monday  another massive attack with air sirens.My 11-year-old son was woken by them about 7.30am.We waited until after 10am for the air alert to end.We didn't have electricity [almost] all day.My son was scared because of the explosions, saying maybe he shouldn't go to school.

Seyfarth Synopsis: On Thursday, December 15, 2022, the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year ("OSHSB") approved the long-proposed 2-year "permanent" COVID-19 standard.The new standard will take effect on January 1, 2023, and replace the current Cal/OSHA COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard ("ETS").

High heat shut down schools in Grand Rapids, Mich., and Pittsburgh on Thursday, forcing students and teachers to stay at home in the face of rising temperatures and inadequate air conditioning.In Detroit, the conditions led administrators to close that city's schools three hours earlier than usual on Thursday, and similar plans were in place for Friday for the city's 53,000 students.

Plugging gaps in doors and reducing boiler flow temperatures are among a series of tips the government is urging cash-strapped Britons to take as part of major campaign to ease the burden of soaring energy bills.The 18 million initiative, dubbed It All Adds Up, spotlights tips on simple, low or no-cost actions to bring about big savings as freezing temperatures sweep through the UK.

The Government has published a list of tips which they say could save people hundreds of pounds on their energy bills.Here is a look at what they are suggesting.Turn your combi boiler flow temperature down to 60C Reducing flow temperature, the temperature of the water that your boiler sends to radiators, is not the same as lowering your thermostat and will not noticeably reduce the temperature of your home, the Government says.

T he City of London has turned down a plan to erect a replica of the cell used to hold Russian dissident Alexey Navalny amid fears it could compromise its political neutrality.The art installation, proposed by human rights campaigners Lester Partners, has previously been shown in Berlin and Paris and features a four tonne metal and cement box matching the size of the 2.9-metre-high solitary cell - known as a Shizo or punishment cell - used to hold the Russian politician.

A large hole has opened up above one of the tunnels being built for the high speed HS2 railway line.Anti-HS2 campaigners said the hole in Little Missenden, Buckinghamshire, was evidence that tunnelling on the controversial infrastructure project should stop.But a HS2 spokesperson said the hole, around four metres across, was likely related to pre-existing ground conditions.

Building work is yet to start for 33 of the government's 40 promised new hospitals in England, the BBC has found.Most are still waiting to hear what their final budget will be for the projects with a 2030 deadline.Only two are finished and open.Ministers aimed to have six ready for 2025 - but none of this group has full planning permission or funding yet.

If you work in an industry where flipping pages and other papers is still an every day thing, then you have probably experienced paper cuts and finger fatigue among other things.You would think that in a highly digital society like Japan that shouldn't be a problem.But alas, it is still indeed a common enough issue for people like bank tellers, proofreaders, clerks who deal with a lot of paperwork, and probably those who work in stationery companies (and we know Japan has a lot of those).

Local architecture studio Workshop Architects has renovated a Spanish colonial house in Mérida, Mexico, and added two concrete buildings in its garden.Named Casa Pulpo, the 235-square-metre residential project is characterised by lilac-hued exterior walls and traditional pasta floor mosaic tiling in the interiors.

Researchers from the University of Chicago have invented a cladding material that changes colour to help with heating or cooling and could be retrofitted to improve buildings' energy efficiency.The composite material consists of several different layers including copper foil, plastic and graphene, and based on the outside temperature can change its infrared colour - the colour it appears under thermal imaging.

While the updated Covid-19 vaccines don't offer complete protection against a trip to the hospital or urgent care, they do offer important defense against the virus, particularly for seniors, two new studies show.Both studies show that there's quite an important benefit from the bivalent booster that it's adding quite a lot of extra protection against hospitalization due to Covid-19, said Ruth Link-Gelles, an epidemiologist at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who co-authored one of the studies.

T he London Underground is polluted with metallic particles small enough to enter the human bloodstream, researchers revealed on Thursday.However, it is unclear whether these ultra-fine iron oxide dust particles pose a risk to public health, though they have previously been linked with asthma, lung cancer, dementia and cardiovascular disease.

Long COVIDa condition with symptoms ranging from respiratory to neurological, from crushing fatigue to chronic paincan be debilitating.And in some cases, according to a new report from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), Long COVID may even be fatal.From January 2020 through June 2022, Long COVID contributed to more than 3,500 deaths in the U.S., according to death-certificate data analyzed by NCHS researchers.

TRUE When you've got a cold, the best thing you can eat is a hearty, nutritious soup, says Lambert.Chicken contains vitamin B12, plus other antioxidants and vitamins which support the immune system and aid digestion.It's also rich in protein, which is good for cellular repair.Adding more veg also increases the vitamins and minerals that are needed to aid recovery.

Families all over the world are gathering to celebrate Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, New Year's Eve and other winter holidays.Unfortunately, these celebrations are taking place during multiple viral surges.For weeks, children's hospitals have been overwhelmed due to an earlier-than-usual rise in respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and influenza.

British studio David Chipperfield Architects has revealed plans for a housing project in Antwerp that will adjoin a 60-tree fruit orchard.Named Boomgaard, the residential project is set to be built in Antwerp's Nieuw Zuid neighbourhood and will contain 54 apartments that sit beside landscapes designed by Bureau Bas Smets.

International architecture studio Hassell teamed up with creative collective to.org and 3D printing studio Nagami to create an astounding prototype for a 3D-printed public pavilion.What makes the pavilion super interesting, is the fact that it's built using recycled plastic."The design is the beginning of a larger plan to create a series of pavilions that encourage conversations around material waste and how technology can solve our planet's most urgent problems," said Hassell.

Home Improvement From window wells to sump pumps, there are things to check before the temperatures rise and the rain falls.Even though it has been a mild winter (except for the recent nor'easter), there are a handful of things that you can do to make sure your home is ready for spring and the transition to warmer weather.

National 'The strongest evidence is on children and children's asthma.'A federal agency says a ban on gas stoves is on the table amid rising concern about harmful indoor air pollutants emitted by the appliances.The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission plans to take action to address the pollution, which can cause health and respiratory problems.

Can the shape of your house impact your health?That was a popular theory in the 1850's, when a vegetarian phrenologist named Orson Squire Fowler argued that eight-sided homes provided the best light, ventilation, and beneficial living space for families.Fowler's theory touched off an Octagon-building fad, that didn't last long.

TxDOT purchased the property in 2021 in order to make room for the highway expansion, vacating it entirely by May 2022.By filing a open records request, Moritz was able to confirm that TxDOT purchased all three buildings in the complex from their interim owner, Banyan Residential.However, he noted a few things seemed suspicious.

Local studio Atelier Data has built the Praia Grande house in Portugal's Sintra-Cascais Natural Park, which is made from five interconnected volumes and features a swimming pool designed to look like a pond.Atelier Data's Praia Grande consists of five volumes clad in metal-sheet facades and finished in projected cork.

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email The inquest into the death of Archie Battersbee, whose life support became the subject of a legal battle last year, is due to conclude today.Archie's case made headlines after his parents, Hollie Dance and Paul Battersbee, launched ultimately unsuccessful legal bids to prevent doctors from switching off his ventilator.

Lucy Letby tried to kill a baby hours after she helped make a banner to mark the girl becoming 100 days old, a court heard.The baby reached the milestone after she was born very, very prematurely, weighing only 535 grams.Doctors at Wirral's Arrowe Park Hospital gave the girl a 5 per cent chance of survival but she stabilised and months later was well enough to be transferred to the Countess of Chester Hospital.

A two-year-old's death was caused by prolonged exposure to mould in his home, a coroner has ruled.Awaab Ishak died as a result of a severe respiratory condition in Rochdale, Greater Manchester in December 2020.Speaking at his inquest, coroner Joanne Kearsley said: There is little doubt that the tragic death of Awaad Ishak should be a defining moment for the housing sector.

At 130 years old, Ontario's legislature is showing its age.There are lead pipes and asbestos running through the walls, mountains of old cables and wires stacked on top of new ones, an inefficient steam heating system with parts that frequently fail and fire safety systems in need of upgrading.The "hazardous and severely deficient" infrastructure has members and officials of the legislature eyeing a full decommissioning of the building for large-scale renovations and moving the business of governing elsewhere for about eight years.

Architecture office Trewhela Williams has completed a minimalist renovation of a mews house in north London, adding a bespoke timber facade to animate its street-facing elevation.The home, which is set in the Belsize Park Conservation Area, originally featured a disused garage that took up a sizeable portion of the floor plan on the ground floor and blocked off any connection to the street outside.

Vietnamese studio Vo Trong Nghia Architects has completed Urban Farming Office, its own head office in Ho Chi Minh City, creating a concrete-framed building covered in a "vertical farm" of vegetables, fruits and herbs.Located on a corner site in the city's Thu Duc district, the Urban Farming Office was designed to be emblematic of the plant-filled, low-energy architecture for which Vo Trong Nghia Architects is known.

The Chippendale building, officially called 550 Madison, was designed by Philip Johnson and completed in 1984, and its neoclassical arch and pink granite were hard to miss.Once home to Sony and AT&T, it remains an eyesore to some, but to others, like James Harris, who has worked in the building since 1996 and is currently the lead safety director, there is something special about the building that sits on East 55th Street and Madison Avenue.

Slatted, folding wooden shutters and exposed board-marked concrete define this home by Israeli studio Pitsou Kedem Architects, designed in collaboration with architect Tamar Berger.Located in a suburban area on the outskirts of Tel Aviv, the 500-square-metre Wood Slatted House sits surrounded by a large, tree-filled garden, and was designed for the twin brother of the studio's founder, Pitsou Kedem.

Staring at my pile of hydration packs for running often makes me feel a little like Goldilocks.Some are too small, others are too big, too heavy, or too bouncy.After months of hydration pack testing, the UltrAspire Alpha 5.0 Race Vest ($125) has emerged as a pack that more often than not is just right.

Charlie Munger with Munger Hall (Getty, VTBS Architects) On Tuesday, a panel of 13 UCSB faculty and community members released a highly critical report of the university's planned megadorm, a project that sparked outrage after one UCSB architect resigned over its unusual design last fall.On Wednesday, Charlie Munger, the billionaire Berkshire Hathaway vice chairman who financed and designed the dorm, had a blunt response to that same report.

A new - and gross! - study has confirmed that teaching our kids to close the toilet lid before they flush is something we really, really need to reinforce.It's not just a picky practice like whether the toilet roll should face in or out, it's a legitimate (and very disgusting) potential health issue.

Little pals in our life deserve the best health and world of exposure.As concerned parents, we leave no stone unturned to ensure the same within the four walls.However, it is always not the same outside.Traveling with pets - whether to the veterinarian or on a flight overseas - is not a comfortable experience, especially if you don't have a pet that's friendly with her carrier bag.

The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features Snøhetta's renovation of Philip Johnson's AT&T building.Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now!Snøhetta revamped the postmodern 550 Madison  skyscraper in New York, which was previously known as the AT&T building.The studio added a public garden as well as improving ventilation and elevation systems to the 647-foot-high granite-clad skyscraper.

This week on Dezeen, architecture studio Snøhetta unveiled its "surgical" renovation of the postmodern 550 Madison skyscraper in New York, formerly known as the AT&T building.The Norwegian studio converted the 197-metre-high skyscraper designed by Philip Johnson from a single-occupancy into a multiple-occupancy building by opening up some of the facades, adding a public garden and improving its ventilation and elevation systems.

Architecture studio Snøhetta has carried out a series of renovations to the postmodern 550 Madison  skyscraper, which was formerly known as the AT&T building.Snøhetta opened up some of the facades, added a public garden and improved ventilation and elevation systems as part of the conversion of the 647-foot-high (197-metre) skyscraper from a single-occupant tower into an office for multiple occupants.

Surrounded by green gardens in Hue City, Vietnam, the Hillside House by Cote Architects resides on a descending slope perched at the highest vantage point for optimal views.Designed as two, stacked glass boxes, the house is broken up with voids in the perimeter walls to help with ventilation and to bring more natural light inside.

American architecture studio SOM has released designs for 8 Shenton Way, a supertall skyscraper in Singapore that will be the city's tallest and has a design that was informed by bamboo forests.Designs for the 63-storey skyscraper show a stepped structure rising from a plant-filled base, with a series of voids along the facade that were designed to resemble a "bamboo forest", according to the studio.

When you're going camping, you probably don't expect to have all the comforts of a hotel or resort vacation.The idea is to rough it out in the middle of nature, unless what you prefer is to go glamping (glamorous camping in case you didn't know).So if you want to add the joy of having a sauna when you're outdoors, you'll have to bring the sauna to you.