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PERPUSTAKAAN BARU DI SEKSYEN 13 SHAH ALAM

Bangunan yang anda lihat pada gambar di atas merupakan sebuah perpustakaan yang letaknya di Seksyen 13, Shah Alam. Jika anda pertama kali melihatnya, pasti anda tidak menyangka bahawa bangunan tersebut adalah sebuah perpustakaan kerana bangunannya yang nampak sangat mewah.

Perpustakaan tersebut bernilai RM70 juta dan baru sahaja dibuka sekitar bulan Julai lalu. Melihat keadaan dalamnya menerusi gambar-gambar kat bawah ni, boleh kami katakan yang ianya adalah sebuah perpustakaan di Malaysia yang bertaraf dunia. Ya, bertaraf dunia. Anda lihatlah sendiri.

Info tambahan:

- Perpustakaan ini merupakan hadiah Sultan Selangor kepada rakyat Selangor.

- Menyediakan perkhidmatan XD theater / 6D theater.

- Menyediakan ruangan khas untuk setiap peringkat umur.

- Dilengkapi dengan ruangan bermain untuk kanak-kanak.

- Semua komputer yang disediakan di perpustakaan ini berjenama Apple.

Silicon Valley billionaire funding creation of artificial libertarian islands

By Liz Goodwin | The Lookout – Tue, Aug 16, 2011
Pay Pal founder and early Facebook investor Peter Thiel has given $1.25 million to an initiative to create floating libertarian countries in international waters, according to a profile of the billionaire in Details magazine.

Seasteading Institute city design (Anthony Ling)

Pay Pal founder and early Facebook investor 

Thiel has been a big backer of the Seasteading Institute, which seeks to build sovereign nations on oil rig-like platforms to occupy waters beyond the reach of law-of-the-sea treaties. The idea is for these countries to start from scratch--free from the laws, regulations, and moral codes of any existing place. Details says the experiment would be "a kind of floating petri dish for implementing policies that libertarians, stymied by indifference at the voting booths, have been unable to advance: no welfare, looser building codes, no minimum wage, and few restrictions on weapons."

"There are quite a lot of people who think it's not possible," Thiel said at a Seasteading Institute Conference in 2009, according to Details. (His first donation was in 2008, for $500,000.) "That's a good thing. We don't need to really worry about those people very much, because since they don't think it's possible they won't take us very seriously. And they will not actually try to stop us until it's too late."

The Seasteading Institute's Patri Friedman says the group plans to launch an office park off the San Francisco coast next year, with the first full-time settlements following seven years later.

Thiel made news earlier this year for putting a portion of his $1.5 billion fortune into an initiative to encourage entrepreneurs to skip college.

Another tech titan, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, announced in June that he would be funding the "Clock of the Long Now." The clock is designed to keep ticking for 10,000 years, and will be built in a mountain in west Texas.

http://my.news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/silicon-valley-billionaire-funding-creation-artificial-libertarian-islands-140840896.html

Bazar Tok Guru bakal beroperasi tidak lama lagi

KOTA BHARU, 5 Mei: Sejak pendaftaran untuk kemasukan dibuka bermula 30 April lalu, kompleks pasar baru Bazar Tok Guru di Jalan Sultan Ibrahim kini sudah menerima kira-kira 150 tempahan peniaga.

Mereka adalah termasuk sebahagian daripada 415 peniaga dari pasar Arked Uda dan pasar lama Majlis Perbandaran Kota Bharu (MPKB) yang ditawarkan berpindah dengan kaedah sewa-beli ke kompleks bangunan tiga tingkat itu.

Bazar Tok Guru atau lebih dikenali BTG di kalangan kakitangan pengurusan projek ini, bakal dibuka tidak lama lagi. Bazar yang bermoto, ‘Pusat Jualan Produk Klate’ ini  bakal menjadi mercu tanda baru perniagaan di Kelantan.

(Gambar: Mercu tanda perniagaan baru di Kota Bharu )

Dipetik dari :Pemudasarawak

Top four iconic Singapore landmarks

By iProperty.com Singapore – December 25th, 2010

Among Singapore’s iconic buildings are four amazing works of architecture. (Photo: AFP)

Singapore may be small, but it’s a powerhouse of innovative building design. Thanks to the city’s old-world-meets-new feel — where skyscrapers tower above shophouses and colonial buildings sit adjacent to contemporary condominiums — each building affects and is affected by its surroundings.

Here are iProperty.com Singapore’s top picks of the most architecturally-interesting buildings on the island.

SOTA School of the Arts

(SOTA School of the Arts. Photo: Choo Yut Shing.)

You’d expect any place housing the most promising young and creative minds in Singapore to be equally inspiring and original, and SOTA’s behemoth structure doesn’t disappoint.

A self-proclaimed ‘laboratory of creativity’, the structure possesses a sense of scale so massive it’s almost intimidating — like walking up the steps of the Acropolis. The use of stone, wood and natural features, such as the lush covering of greenery, accentuate the sense of timeless, historical design.

Helix Bridge

(The Helix Bridge at night. Photo: Singapore Tourism Board.)

The paint is barely (metaphorically speaking) dry – as the bridge only officially opened in June this year. Yet the Helix bridge, constructed with a strongly cohesive thematic sense, not only incorporates the double helix of the DNA structure in its design but also, intriguingly, includes two pairs of coloured letters on the frame; c and g, a and t. They stand for cytosine, guanine, adenine and thymine: the four bases of DNA. An arresting sight for drivers on the nearby East Coast Parkway, it’s perfectly situated to allow pedestrians to take in the view of Marina Bay.

Parkview Square

(Detail of the fresco on Parkview Square. Photo: Singapore Tourism Board.)

One of the few Singapore buildings to be designed in the Art Deco style, Parkview Square would look at home in Gotham City, prompting many residents to nickname it the ‘Batman Building’. It is one of the few high rises in the central region, with no less than three embassies residing in it.

Parkview Square’s beautiful, artsy, but slightly sinister air is compounded by classical adornments like the gargoyles and statues of men cradling globes.

ArtScience Museum

(Artist’s rendition of ArtScience Museum. Image courtesy of Marina Bay Sands.)

Whether you think it looks like a lotus, an open hand, or a half-completed Death Star, the Art & Science Museum at Marina Bay Sands certainly catches both the eye and the imagination. True to its compound name, the building aims to unite art and science.

When it opens in March 2011, it will feature 60,000 sq ft of trendy arts exhibitions, theatre performances and technological displays. A central waterfall trickles down from the doughnut-hole roof in the atrium. It actually runs on collected rainwater, which will be reused in an environmentally friendly fashion

http://sg.yfittopostblog.com/2010/12/25/top-four-singapore-buildings/