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Outdoor Lighting: How to Choose Your Exterior Lighting
Outdoor lighting provides light for safe walking in the evening hours, a welcoming guide for visitors, security, and a pleasant way to enhance the natural beauty at home. Your exterior lighting should be a reflection of your home’s exterior as well as its interior style.
AIRE: Exposing the Ancient Baths of Manhattan
In an effort to bring the ancient baths of Greece and Rome back to life, Manhattan’s AIRE Ancient Baths reinvents the old days of bath houses with an elegant modern day twist. Located on Franklin Street in New York, New York this is the essential New York retreat to release and refuel. AIRE was designed by the Barcelona architectural group Alonso Balaguer y Arquitectos Asociado.
Source: Ancient Baths NY
Hector Serrano’s Homage to the Pantheon Dome
Hector Serrano and their installation crew Borealis, created this glowing architectural monument for the 2013 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, Calif. Dome was inspired by Rome’s pantheon dome architecture. Most often pantheon dome’s were considered to be a building that was devoted to God. The building consisted of a circular ceiling supported by large columns at regular intervals that hold up the dome shaped ceiling.
Source: Architizer
Kebony’s Sustainable Glowing Kreod Pavilion
This dome shaped architectural sculpture was created by the Kebony, a long time advocate and distributor of environmentally friendly wood. This forward thinking construction was made from Kebony’s Southern Yellow Pine. In hopes to bring awareness to consumers and designers that sustainable and eco-friendly constructions do exist and they can look good. The Kreod pavilion takes into consideration the environment as well as the intimate life cycle of the design.
Source: Kebony
Edison’s Vintage Electrical Meter Gets a Makeover
Over the last ten years electric countries all over the United States and beyond have been gradually converting outdated electrical meters with new digital meters that require less maintenance and monitoring. You may know what we are talking about because they have stopped by and switched out your home’s meter. Sure their new system promises to be more efficient and compatible with their computers but what about the old meters?
