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Many of us dream about a summer house by the sea; a place where we can while away the long, sun-kissed days in comfort while reestablishing a much-needed connection with nature. Anti Reality, an imaginative page which blurs the lines between art and architecture, has visualized a perfect concept of just such a place.

The standout feature of the aptly named ‘Summer House’ is the roof. Inverted into a concave form, it creates a basin that is just perfect for a pool, so you can relax with a glass of something and watch the sunset over the sea.

The pool is accessed by a ladder on the exterior of the house, which is designed to be perched on the edge of a cliff.

“My goal was to create a reverse version of a roof that can be adapted as a swimming pool,” Anti Reality explained. “The roof structure is supported by 3 cores, two of them are kitchen and bathroom, and this is where I was planning to adapt drainage pipes. It’s very idealistic but this is a logic behind the concept.”

The panoramic windows wrap around the cores, creating a light and bright interior that lets the outside world in. This was one of the most important points behind the concept. The ‘cores’ can be opened or closed depending on the level of privacy the occupants desire at any particular time.

“One of the key design intents was to create a building that would be completely open to the surroundings, providing the possibility to observe and engage in direct contact with nature,” Anti Reality explained.
“The Summer House has been designed with seasonal recreation and weekends outside the city in mind.”

Anti Reality has several futuristic and imaginative designs, visualizing a world of limitless opportunities for architecture. We can only hope that some ambitious engineers begin to take note!

A WOMAN with a birthmark covering most of her back and tummy has turned her life around after refusing to listen to bullies.

Yulianna Yussef, who lives in Warsaw, Poland spent her childhood and teenage years inundated with nasty comments, which resulted in her only leaving the house after dark.

Speaking to the Mirror Online, Yulianna revealed she’d been a “carefree and happy” child until the age of eight.

But as she grew older, bullies made nasty comments and even parents would stop their children playing with Yulianna in case her birthmark (also known as Congenital Melanocytic Nevus or CNN) was “contagious”.

The 25-year-old revealed how one day at the age of 15, she went to the beach with her friend – a trip which resulted in Yulianna spending the rest of the summer indoors, only leaving the house when it was dark.

“Some old woman come to me with her advice on how to remove my ‘warts’, some waitresses in the cafe said unkind words to me. Lots of things like this happened that morning,” she explained.

“My friend said to me ‘oh my God, Julie! Walking with you just like walking with a monkey’.

“I know it was just words and in some ways it was a joke.

“I wasn’t angry at her, but after this I began to just sit at home all summer and walked for one or two hours in the evenings when it was dark.”

After years of abuse, Yulianna decided enough was enough.

“I was a dalmatian, a giraffe, a cow, I was dirty, people thought that if they spoke to me my birthmarks would jump at them,” she said.

“I was so tired of hiding and being afraid of people, of their reactions and actions.

“I was hating myself for the weakness and that I felt so much pity towards myself.”

Yulianna realised that the majority of people probably didn’t know what her birth mark was, explaining that if they did understand, it might make things easier for other adults and children living with CMN.

After setting up an Instagram account to document her journey, Yulianna has almost 100,000 followers, revealing she now feels “sexy in [her] own skin”.

“I want to be happy, healthy, feel beautiful and confident and sexy in my own skin and I am now. But it’s been a long way to this.”

Yulianna is set to feature in the How Do You C Me Now exhibition taking place later this month at the Oxo Tower in London.

The exhibition celebrates the lives of those with CMN through a series of portraits of children and adults affected by the condition.

Earlier this week, we told you about thewoman whose nose DOUBLED in size due to rare condition.

And we showed you the TV ad urging women to have smear tests as two die every day from cervical cancer.

Meanwhile, the wider complex will house hotels, restaurants and shops in the unorthodox design.

It will also include offices and private homes.

The epic project, designed by architect Moshe Safdie, is close to completion.

Visitors will also be able to soak up the sights of the city in a special viewing gallery, as well as sky gardens and an infinity pool.

At nighttime, the cityscape will glow with a beaming light sent out from the structure.

Meanwhile, the associated Raffles City Chongqing complex is a resort of its own, with a 230,000 square metre shopping mall.

Developers have confirmed they are now focussing on the interiors of the structures.

The elaborate designs and adornments are expected to be completed in the second quarter of 2019.

The overall ethos of the district’s design was inspired by that of traditional Chinese sailing vessels.

It marks a nod to Chongqing’s strong heritage as a trading centre.

Lucas Loh, deputy CEO and CIO of CapitaLand China, said: “After six years of construction using state of the art engineering technologies, we are proud to present in Raffles City Chongqing an iconic architectural form resembling a powerful sail surging forward on the historic Chaotianmen site.”

He added: “Positioned as a must-visit destination for local residents as well as domestic and overseas travellers, Raffles City Chongqing has been garnering strong response from our customers.”

China built more skyscrapers last year than any other country.

It completed a grand total of 88 in 2018.

Raffles City Chongqing is due to open this year.

Travellers to China will soon be able to step inside a stunning horizontal skyscraper hailed an “engineering marvel”. The eye-catching building, dubbed The Crystal, is part of the long-awaited Raffles City Chongqing project in Chongqing City. It is designed into a connecting skybridge amid the eight other skyscraper towers and will be the highest of its kind in the world. The jaw-dropping structure will span across the top of four skyscraper buildings, rising to 60ft tall and 820 feet in the air.

Construction on the bridge was completed this week, when massive cranes lifted the last steel piece and secured it in place some 850 feet in the air. Before we get into the details, take a moment to check out the scale of the structure compared to a person:

Designed by Israeli-Canadian architectMoshe Safdie, the structure echoes the architect’s famous $5.7 billion “SkyPark” at the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore, which was completed in 2010 and takes a similar approach to connecting independent skyscrapers with a bridge of entertainment and recreation spaces.

However, the Crystal is fully covered by a glass vault that, according to the developers, was inspired by old sailing ships. It’s an apt reference, since the project is situated at the confluence of the Yangtze and Jialing rivers in central China.

Though it’s situated 850 feet above the street, the Crystal isn’t the tallest skybridge in the world. That honor goes to the Kingdom Centre in Saudi Arabia, whose 300-ton bridge floats 992 feet above ground. Still, Safdie’s Crystal is in some ways more impressive than other well known sky bridges–both because it links more towers than any other, and because its construction makes it more akin to a distinct skyscraper than a simple connecting bridge.

In other words, the Crystal is the complex’s fifth skyscraper, albeit a horizontal one. To get an idea of just how complicated the process of building it was, you can watch the prefab steel segments being hoisted into place below.

“The great opportunities with these building types are the unexpected new vantage points found to view the city, and the further integration of the public realm into the high levels of a building,” Safdie’s firm writes on its website. The Crystal acts “not only as a connector, but as a fully programmed horizontal structure complete with internal streets, building program and gardens.”

After 13 years and 10 films, Tyler Perry is finally retiring Madea, the character he’s been playing ever since he created her in 1999, long before she went on to anchor her own series of films. That’s almost two decades of the same character, so it’s hardly a surprise that Perry actually sounds more than ready to say goodbye to the role. At least, that’s what he’s saying now.

Madea was first introduced to the world through Tyler Perry’s film Diary of A Mad Black Woman. From there we got 11 instalments of movies that explored the beloved character and her hardcore, tough love ways. Monday night was the official premiere of A Madea Family Funeral, which is the last film that will feature Madea.

“I don’t want to be her age playing her, so it was time to shut it down and move on,” Tyler told The Hollywood Reporter when discussing the character coming to an end. “I’ve got some other things I want to do, and in this next 50, I’m going to do something different.”

On the topic of killing Madea off, Tyler explained how that simply wasn’t an option. “It’s always going to be open-ended because what you don’t want to do is murder a family member,” he explained. “And a lot of people feel like she’s a family member.”

KJ Smith, who’s starred in Madea films spoke of the farewell and how she’ll miss “the comedy of it all.”

“I’m from the South, and Madea reminds me of several black mothers and grandmothers and great-grandmothers that I grew up with, so I’m going to miss that representation on film,” she said.

A father in China has come up with a creative way to sneak in a power nap while being put on daddy duties.

The exhausted man, filmed lying on a bed with his infant son, drew a pair of fake eyes on his eyelids to make the child believe he was still awake.

The quick-witted father even put on a recording of him singing a nursery rhyme to help put the baby to sleep.

The baby, thinking he still has his father’s full attention, is also filmed dosing off comfortably as the adult takes a stealthy nap with tissue stuffed in his ears as earplugs.

The humorous clip, believed to be filmed by the mother, is part of a compilation video released by Chinese news site K618.cn titled ‘Perfunctory ways of fathers taking care of their children’.

Other nerve-wracking clips show a father continuing to play computer games after strapping his son to his chest with a baby carrier.

Another video shows an expectant dad attending an antenatal class, only to clumsily twist the head of the baby mannequin so hard that it popped off.

The video, published on Monday, has already gathered 4.17 million views on Weibo, with net users – many of them parents themselves – commenting that these ‘careless fathers’ are the reason why the stereotype exists, that women are considered better caretakers.

Mothers often remain as the primary caretaker in Chinese households, and stay-at-home dads are rare as men are expected to be the breadwinners.

‘You can tell that the father is very inexperienced in taking care of his baby!’ one person said on the Chinese microblogging site.

‘This is so funny! What a clever man,’ another user said. ‘Many fathers would be copying him now.’

‘This actually shows that men should be learning how to take care of their babies properly and not leave everything to their wives,’ one comment read.

‘As a mother myself, watching these videos makes me so nervous!’ one user said.

‘At least the fathers are demonstrating good effort in helping out,’ another user said.

source:dailymail.co.uk

A father in China has come up with a creative way to sneak in a power nap while being put on daddy duties.

The exhausted man, filmed lying on a bed with his infant son, drew a pair of fake eyes on his eyelids to make the child believe he was still awake.

The quick-witted father even put on a recording of him singing a nursery rhyme to help put the baby to sleep.

The baby, thinking he still has his father’s full attention, is also filmed dosing off comfortably as the adult takes a stealthy nap with tissue stuffed in his ears as earplugs.

The humorous clip, believed to be filmed by the mother, is part of a compilation video released by Chinese news site K618.cn titled ‘Perfunctory ways of fathers taking care of their children’.

Other nerve-wracking clips show a father continuing to play computer games after strapping his son to his chest with a baby carrier.

Another video shows an expectant dad attending an antenatal class, only to clumsily twist the head of the baby mannequin so hard that it popped off.

The video, published on Monday, has already gathered 4.17 million views on Weibo, with net users – many of them parents themselves – commenting that these ‘careless fathers’ are the reason why the stereotype exists, that women are considered better caretakers.

Mothers often remain as the primary caretaker in Chinese households, and stay-at-home dads are rare as men are expected to be the breadwinners.

‘You can tell that the father is very inexperienced in taking care of his baby!’ one person said on the Chinese microblogging site.

‘This is so funny! What a clever man,’ another user said. ‘Many fathers would be copying him now.’

‘This actually shows that men should be learning how to take care of their babies properly and not leave everything to their wives,’ one comment read.

‘As a mother myself, watching these videos makes me so nervous!’ one user said.

‘At least the fathers are demonstrating good effort in helping out,’ another user said.

source:dailymail.co.uk

A pencil drawing of Kevin Hart by a Nigerian hyper-realist artist identified as Eli Waduba Yusuf, has gotten the attention of the American comic actor.
The man had posted a pencil drawing of Kevin Hart on twitter and asked his followers to help re-post until it gets the attention of the popular comic actor and interestingly, just moments ago, the actor confirmed seeing the drawing and promised to buy it off.
He even promised to buy 3 more for his celebrity friends.

See Yusuf’s post:

My name is Eli Waduba Yusuf Am a Nigerian, based in kaduna. Am a hyperrealism PENCIL Artist, I hope to become like @Harinzeyart. Please Retweet, let @KevinHart4real see it, thank you

Then Kevin Hart responded: “I see it and I want to purchase it…I also want to support you and your amazing talent by giving you a fee to do a pencil drawing of 3 of my celebrity friends that I can gift it to. DM your info and let’s get to work!”

Talking about young Nigerians putting their talent to good use, recall the story of the female carpentar that trended not long ago

A young lady identified as Olabisi has done something remarkable. She ventured into carpentry since this recession has affected every sector of the nation. The intriguing thing about this young lady was that she taught herself carpentry by watching YouTube videos and reading free online books about it. This is a sharp contrast to what other ladies her age will do with the smart devices they carry about. Rather than downloading songs and uploading pictures of herself, she has decided to invest in herself. She remained dedicated as focused hard on her dream of making money through carpentry.

Olabisi has started reaping the fruits of her labour as she has started earning some cool cash as a carpenter. The young Nigerian lady is enjoying the process as she is able to do something different. If all the young women in the society can shed off their layers of pride and focus on something worthwhile, the country will record tremendous growth in every facet.

Here is what she had to say concerning her decision to tread where few ladies dared;
”So about a week ago, I started my self-carpentry training..waow!thanks to YouTube and the free carpentry books online. I had actually thought it’s going to be an easy ride but eish….it’s not been easy and neither is it as difficult as I was told it would be.

”The beautiful thing is, this journey is revealing to me much more than ever that God is a God of process. Therefore, no pressure! Whether I succeed or fail is inconsequential, I am open enough to take the risk to fail. No pressure. No quest for instant gratification. No immediate result needed. For me, its all about enjoying the process.”

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