All News articles – Page 22
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NewsRuth Thomas: A Queen’s Nurse
Ruth Thomas won the Queen’s Nurse title after 10 years of work with the Army. She talked to Lucy Jolin about the joys of her job.
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NewsMultimedia tech boosts medical training
After qualifying as a medical doctor Wim Van Renterghem saw an opportunity to combine his profession with his passion for multimedia and video technologies to launch mediAVentures, a specialist in transmission of HD and 3D live surgery.
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NewsPII special: top tips
Over 10,000 firms of solicitors in England and Wales will again be pulling together their applications for professional indemnity insurance (PII) renewal.
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NewsPII special
Since moving to the open market in 2000, many solicitors’ firms have complained of professional indemnity insurance (PII) premium price hikes. As one anonymous lawyer put it: ‘Let’s not pretend that the insurers are some sort of benign force existing to help anyone. They are there to take premiums and ...
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Accident-l EP launches
Accident-l create their music in a studio across the road from a rock crushing machine. When the machine stops they start. Sometimes they make music for Alien chase films. The Accident-L project was set up in 2011 by Tristan Williams and Will Harper. Bandcamp embed code The ...
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Star is caught devouring planet
Astronomers have found evidence for a planet being devoured by its star, yielding insights into the fate that will befall Earth in billions of years.
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Fuel oil and bunkers
Singapore HSFO prices rose on Monday, tracking sharp gains in crude and paper values.
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Energy shares boost stocks
Six of the S&P’s 10 sectors advanced in an abbreviated session ahead of the Independence Day holiday as oil prices rallied on revived tensions over the Iranian nuclear program.
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Irish auction marks progress
Ireland will make a tentative step toward regaining the trust of bond investors Thursday when it sells €500 million of Treasury bills, marking its first auction since it was locked out of international capital markets in September 2010.
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Producer-price inflation slows
Euro-zone producer-price inflation slowed to its weakest rate in more than two years in May, pointing to a slowdown in consumer prices that would give the European Central Bank more room to cut its key interest rate.
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NewsLudwig Mies Van der Rohe
Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe was born in Aachen, Germany in 1886. He worked in the family stone-carving business before he joined the office of Bruno Paul in Berlin. He entered the studio of Peter Behrens in 1908 and remained until 1912. He made major contributions to the architectural philosophies of the late 1920s and 1930s as artistic director of the Werkbund-sponsored Weissenhof project and as Director of the Bauhaus.
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NewsLe Corbusier
Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris was born in La Chaux de Fonds, Switzerland, 1887. Trained as an artist, he travelled extensively through Germany and the East. In Paris he studied under Auguste Perret and absorbed the cultural and artistic life of the city. During this period he developed a keen interest in the ...
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NewsPure, sleek, geometric envelope
Unlike the confined urban locations of most of Le Corbusier’s earlier houses, the openness of the Poissy site permitted a freestanding building and the full realization of his five-point program. Essentially the house comprises two contrasting, sharply defined, yet interpenetrating external aspects. The dominant element is the square single-storied box, ...
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News"International style" classic
An early and classic exemplar of the “International Style”, which hovers above a grass plane on thin concrete pilotti, with strip windows, and a flat roof with a deck area, ramp, and a few contained touches of curvaceous walls.
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NewsTugendhat House construction
Thin + shape columns held in from exterior walls. glazed wall toward views. entry from ‘back’. interior recalls Barcelona Pavilion.
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NewsTugendhat House
The plan repeats that of the Barcelona Pavilion, the onyx wall and the curved one of Macassar ebony being independent of the cruciform- shaped columns. The floor is of white linoleum, the rug white wool. The curtains are of black and natural raw silk and white velvet. Behind the dining ...
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NewsDamon Hill joins Sky team
Sky Sports have announced that former World Champion Damon Hill has joined their team to cover the 2012 season on their dedicated F1 channel, Sky Sports F1 HD.
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Markets rise after Italy austerity vote
Wall Street opens strongly as Papademos is sworn-in as Greek PM and Italy’s senate approves austerity package
