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Rose Smith, Robin Ahrens and Kate King celebrate 90 years of Gucci with a preview of Fall 2011, styled by Karen Langley and captured by Serge LeBlon for Dazed & Confused, June 2011. Less overtly sexy than under Tom Ford’s leadership to revive the brand, it still rocks steady with vibrant energy and sensuality under current Gucci Creative Director Frida Giannini. See interview.
Creativity Beyond Belief!
Abandoned German Nuclear Plant Transformed Into Wunderland Kalkar Amusement Park! Wunderland Kalkar Inhabitat
Digging into this story, in Kalkar in 1972, construction was started on the SNR-300, the first large breeding reactor in Germany.
The reactor was designed to use plutonium as fuel and be cooled by sodium, giving it a higher potential for disaster. Opposition built to the power plant, and the highly controversial was continually delayed.
Finally completed at enormous expense, the nuclear facility never opened. Besides community concerns, the reactor would have rendered the building contaminated and unusable, becoming both a political and environmental nightmare.
The building is essentially one of the most expensive, complicated pieces of trash in the world and lives a new life as an amusement park.
Functional Fair Tales
‘Charms & Disguises’ by Jenny Ekdahl Core77
Jenny Ekdahl is currently pursuing her Masters degree at Sweden’s Lund University School of Industrial Design. Her Spring 2011 project “Charms & Disguises,” which was recently exhibited at DMY Berlin, is an exploration of the deeper meaning of fairy tales.
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