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Sunday, February 13, 2022

Culinary Architecture: 16 Projects that Explore Different Kitchen Layouts


Slovakia is an Eastern European gem filled with riveting history, both ancient and modern (and lacking tourist crowds).  The area has been shaped and sculpted by the rise and fall of mighty empires and ideologies, which we'll explore on this journey through the country's ever-evolving identity.

From the bustling capital in the west to mountain villages of the east, we'll discover Cold War relics, World War II secrets, and medieval castles worthy of movie sets.  We'll trace mining innovations and social movements and find eerie reminders of the past along the way.  Guided by practiced insiders, we'll get an uncensored look at life in Slovakia and return home with a broadened perspective that few foreigners hold

HISTORY • 8 DAYS, 7 NIGHTS Slovakian Castles and Cold War Relics Slovakia


Whether it's by sharing a meal at a restaurant or preparing a home-cooked meal together, food does in fact, bring people together. With that in mind, architects placed kitchens at the heart of homes, giving residents a space to cook, dine, and spend quality time with their families and friends. However, not all homes can fit spacious kitchens, some are too small and others don't have the proper spatial configuration for it. In this interior focus, we will explore how architects and designers opted for different kitchen layouts based on different spatial and user needs.

Culinary Architecture: 16 Projects that Explore Different Kitchen Layouts


Can you identify the familiar New York City sights depicted in these closeup photographs?


How to Grow Your Own Wondrous Fruits Ever dreamed having a peanut butter fruit tree in your garden?



All over the world, husbands and wives routinely and somewhat pointlessly ask one another: Are you okay? It’s part of the contract; it’s the thing to do, because it implies that you care, that you’re paying attention, when in fact you might be deeply and relentlessly bored.”

Meg Wolitzer’s novel, The story Wife, is the history of the long, tired marriage of the Castlemans. 



What would you call her look? Hong Kong brothel meets Berlin cabaret? Lotte Lenya? Pinch of Marlene Dietrich? Soupçon of Rita Hayworth? Let’s find a more literary model …Let’s say … Colette, only juicier. To coin a phrase … a bad-girl hothouse tomato!”



I don’t think anyone lives long enough to imagine his next decade accurately. You get to thirty and you think you know what forty will be like, but you don’t, then comes fifty and boy does forty look good. I’m fifty-eight now and I’m not going to pretend I have a clue what my seventh decade will be, other than disappointing. Because every decade so far has been less than I hoped; why should the next one be different?



This Community In Denmark Lives In Surreal Circle Gardens Bored Panda. Kevin W: “You have to see the images to believe them. Related to this is an article, also in Denmark, at https://wonderfulengineering.com/the-surreal-round-shaped-community-gardens-of-copenhagen/