FASHION HOUSES TO MAINTAIN ITALY’S BEAUTY
Fendi will finance a renovation of Rome’s famous Trevi Fountain, becoming the latest luxury group to fund repairs to priceless heritage in times of austerity. The 2.12 million euro ($2.85 million) repairs on the nearly 300-year-old fountain will be finished by 2015, Rome’s city hall and Fendi said in a note. Fendi’s artistic director Karl Lagerfeld, who is also a celebrated photographer, said he would be publishing a book on the fountains of Rome that will feature some of his daguerreotypes — an antique type of photograph. The “Fendi for Fountains” project will also include funding to restore Quattro Fontane, late Renaissance fountains gracing each corner of a busy intersection […]
ARCHITECT WANTS YOU TO 3D PRINT YOUR NEW LIVEABLE HOME…ON THE MOON
A Dutch architect has designed a house “with no beginning or end” to be built using the world’s largest 3D printer, harnessing technology that may one day be used to print houses on the moon. Janjaap Ruijssenaars, 39, of Universe Architecture in Amsterdam, wants to print a Mobius strip-shaped building with around 1,100 square metres (12,000 square feet) of floor space using the massive D-Shape printer. The printer, designed by Italian Enrico Dini, can print up to almost a six-metre-by-six-metre square (20-foot-by-20-foot), using a computer to add layers 5-10 mm (a quarter to half an inch) thick. Ruijssenaars says the building could serve as a home or a museum and […]