Abandoned Houses in Norway
Britt M. is a photographer based in Oslo, with a special love for abandonment and moody skies. Her most beloved subject of photography are themed portraits. With a background in film and drama studies she loves to incorporate some kind of storytelling or posed tableau feeling in her portraits.
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Bachman Wilson House Frank Lloyd Wright
In 1988, Sharon and Lawrence Tarantino acquired the neglected Bachman-Wilson House, ca. 1954, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Tarantino Architect guided the complete restoration, as well as rebuilt the kitchen according to Mr. Wright’s original drawings. Additionally, furnishings were restored and rebuilt, with 1950’s upholstery fabrics selected appropriate for the house and the period.
In saving a historic building, relocation is usually the preservation strategy of last resort. But after repeated flooding at the original site in Millstone, New Jersey, architects and preservationists Sharon and Lawrence Tarantino felt that they had no other choice but to find someone who would purchase their Frank Lloyd Wright Usonian home and move it to higher ground.
That higher ground turned out to be 1,260 miles away. After a prolonged international search, the Taratinos sold the Bachman-Wilson house in 2013 to Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton for the campus of her Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas. The reconstructed house now sits a stone’s throw away from the Moshe Safdie-designed museum and will open to the public November 11.
INFOGRAPHIC: A World of Languages
We represent each language within black borders and then provide the numbers of native speakers (in millions) by country. There are at least 7,102 known languages alive in the world today. Twenty-three of these languages are a mother tongue for more than 50 million people. The 23 languages make up the native tongue of 4.1 billion people. We represent each language within black borders and then provide the numbers of native speakers (in millions) by country. The colour of these countries shows how languages have taken root in many different regions.
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