![]() ![]() ![]() All four production units are built with 21 m free-spanning, cross-laminated timber, creating flexible column free – space s. Along the color and wood factory, the sloping roofs are extended to form a pathway for visitors and staff to hike up and down the building while observing the production processes inside. Inside the factories, each wing has one alternating ceiling corner lifted to create inclined roofs that allow views into the production halls as well as the forest outside. Exploring The Plus feels like moving through an archipelago of colorful islands where the experience and overview of the factory’s activities are unified. ![]() Like a flowchart, the entire interior is organized with the color of each machine overflowing to the floors. The layout enables an efficient, flexible, and transparent workflow between the manufacturing units and an intuitive visitor experience. The Plus is conceived as a radial array of four main production halls – a warehouse, color factory, wood factory, and the assembly – that connect at the center and generate the ‘plus’ shape at its intersection. ![]()
0 Comments
![]() ![]() Overall, the tone of this issue is consistently ominous, in line with more serious Spidey stories like Back in Black. While there is a decent amount of action, especially involving the Hobgoblin, the issue is packed with introspection and classic Spidey guilt. Zdarsky’s years of experience writing Spider-Man, including the acclaimed Spider-Man Life Story, show clearly here, as does his recent work on Daredevil to a small extent. Set during the original Alien Costume Saga of the 1980s, Spider’s Shadow wastes no time setting the stage for a dark, violent Spider-Man story. Chip Zdarsky pens this dark new four-part What If miniseries from Marvel Comics which he calls “a play on a familiar What If story,” in which Peter Parker chooses not to give up the Venom symbiote. I jest, but in a roundabout way, that’s the premise of The Spider’s Shadow. ![]() Spider-Man: The Spider’s Shadow #1 Marvel Comics Writer: Chip Zdarsky Artists: Pasqual Ferry (Artist), Matt Hollingsworth (Color Artist), VC’s Joe Caramagna (Letterer) ![]() ![]() She was just so poor and so easily bored during her college years that she had to come up with creative ways to entertain herself, and her first novel, Learning Curve, was born out of one such attempt. Rachel Spangler never set out to be an award winning author. ![]() She lives with her wife and son in Western New York. Rachel Spangler is the Golden Crown Literary Society and Rainbow Award-winning author of ten lesbian romance novels and novellas. But this time, as they ride the razor's edge between victory and defeat, the stakes are steeper than any mountain they will ever face when legacies and hearts collide. Putting their broken bodies on the line, they fight the competition, the clock, and the frozen terrain for one more chance at glory. Can teaming up with Corey give her the edge she needs to go for gold, or will the snowboarder's infuriatingly cocky smile and rock hard abs prove a distraction she simply can't afford? Both champions brace themselves for the run of a lifetime. ![]() But Elise has already lost a full season to injury, and she's struggling to make the Olympic ski team. Elise Brandeis doesn't need a training partner, especially an unorthodox has-been snowboarder with an attitude. ![]() ![]() Corey LaCroix only wanted to snowboard, but Olympic medals and world championships only carry you so far when your knees ache and you're suddenly an underdog for the first time in her career. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Reynolds then juxtaposes Helene’s inquiries about the anger and contention that have consumed her family’s generations with detailed flashbacks (presented, oddly, as omniscient narrative rather than from the viewpoint of a specific character, remembering). After learning that Annie b has died, Helene confronts her mother, who does allow her daughter into her house, and, to a limited extent, her memories. In 1976, Helene Strickland travels from Washington, DC (where she works in a nursing home), to Arkansas’s impoverished Lafayette County when summoned by her estranged mother Queen Ester-who had abandoned baby Helene to be raised by the child’s warmhearted Aunt Annie b (sic). An earnest debut novel painstakingly records an uprooted black woman’s recovery of her scattered family’s even more scattered history. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Leteo Institute’s revolutionary memory-altering procedure will straighten him out, even if it means forgetting who he truly is.Ī Paste Magazine Best Young Adult Novel of All TimeĪ Booklist Best First Novel of 2015 and a Booklist Editors' Choice of 2015Ī Refinery29 Best Diverse Young Adult BookĪ Best Young Adult Book of 2015Ī New York Public Library Top 10 Young Adult Novels of 2015Ī Los Angeles Public Library Best Teen Books of 2015 Since Aaron can't stay away from Thomas or turn off his newfound happiness, he considers taking drastic actions. Aaron can't deny his unexpected feelings for Thomas despite the tensions their friendship has created with Genevieve and his tight-knit crew. Grief and the smile-shaped scar on his wrist won’t let him forget the pain. But when Aaron meets Thomas, a new kid in the neighborhood, something starts to shift inside him. In the months following his father's suicide, sixteen-year-old Aaron Soto can’t seem to find happiness again, despite the support of his girlfriend, Genevieve, and his overworked mom. ![]() ![]() In his twisty, heartbreaking, profoundly moving New York Times bestselling debut, Adam Silvera brings to life a charged, dangerous near-future summer in the Bronx. A special Deluxe Edition of Adam Silvera’s groundbreaking debut featuring an introduction by Angie Thomas, New York Times bestselling author of The Hate U Give a new final chapter, "More Happy Ending" and an afterword about where it all began. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her mission has as much to do with her own soul-searching as it does with mercy. In The Clockwork Dagger, Octavia Leander is a 22-year-old medician - a doctor, in other words, although the similarity between the words "medician" and "magician" is not accidental - who embarks on a voyage aboard the airship Argus. That she pulls it off so winningly is something of a marvel itself. Cato's richly anachronistic setting only makes the definition of hero that much harder pin down. ![]() The book is as steampunk as they come: Dirigibles lumber overhead, wind-up mechanical marvels abound, and a pseudo-Victorian level of industrial technology is mixed with alchemy and magic. Which is why genre exercises like The Clockwork Dagger, the debut novel by Beth Cato, have their work cut out for them. Defining heroism is as slippery as defining humanity - as well as defining the culture that happens to be surrounding it any given moment. What makes a hero? Untold numbers of authors have tried to answer that question, all the while knowing that there can never be a simple solution to such a complex equation. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Clockwork Dagger Author Beth Cato ![]() ![]() ![]() Our mind might make prisons, but it also gives us keys. It also empowers us, because we aren’t at the mercy of the world we can never control, we are at the mercy of a mind we can, potentially, with effort and determination, begin to alter and expand. It’s not always easy, sure, but there is a comfort in knowing it is possible to view any single thing in multiple ways. It is ultimately up to us how we greet these things. They only gain positive or negative value the moment they enter our minds. Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher, thought that if we are distressed about something external, “the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.” Nothing either good or badĮxternal events are neutral. "Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition." - James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room Power ![]() But then we never think about food more than when we are hungry and we never think about life rafts more than when we are thrown overboard. It is a strange paradox, that many of the clearest, most comforting life lessons are learned while we are at our lowest. ![]() ![]() Note: The following are excerpts from The Comfort Book by Matt Haig. If you enjoy this summary, please consider buying me a coffee to caffeinate my reading sessions. īuy The Comfort Book: Print | Kindle | Audiobook Learn more about The Comfort Book on Amazon. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In walks jaunty Judy in candy-striped full-skirted dress and heels, the perfect Stepford Wives hostess doll and model 'fifties housewife. Nostalgia and retro-fashion (there are casual pokes at people sucking on biros-vaping-instead of those wonderful cigarettes) are taken down with dry irony (“The Great Pretender” one of the song tracks).Ī doll’s house set in Mad Men promotional style, a 'fifties Ideal Homes showroom: sitting room, kitchen, bedroom, bathroom (pink flamingos shower curtain) with stairs dissecting. Why aren’t we dancing in the aisles? Lucky Hywel Morgan and Siubhan Harrison as Marcus and Fran, friends of and foils for the lead protagonists, jive the night away, covering scene changes with their polished moves. ![]() ![]() Were gender politics ever as much fun as in Laura Wade’s genial yet barbed Home, I’m Darling? A playlist soundtrack (Tom Gibbons sound design) that sets the mood, heads jiggling, and tracks the cracks in a faux 'fifties lifestyle quality bopping (choreography by Charlotte Broom of HeadSpaceDance and formerly dancer with Northern and Cullberg Ballet Companies) a fabulous set from Anna Fleischle tight direction from Tamara Harvey and performances that sparkle with knowing wit and charm under Lucy Carter’s stylish Hitchcockian lighting. ![]() ![]() ![]() My students often arrive at the surprising realisation that “nothing much happens” in The Left Hand of Darkness. ![]() These elements make Le Guin’s worlds less binary, less based on conflict and resolution, and more mystical, spiritual and – ultimately – refreshingly different to expected norms in science fiction and fantasy. As Master Hand says: “To light a candle is to cast a shadow.” The same symbol is a powerful metaphor in the harmonious symmetries of The Left Hand of Darkness: male and female, hot and cold, fear and courage. The ying-yang symbol of the balance of opposites is reflected in the “equilibrium” which holds everything together in Earthsea. ![]() Principles and beliefs associated with Taoism were also central to Le Guin’s imaginative fiction: non-action, living harmoniously with the self and the universe, respecting the natural rhythms of life. In Always Coming Home, alongside the main narrative, we get ethnographic notes about the customs, myths and rituals of the Kesh tribe. In The Left Hand of Darkness, society on the ice planet of Gethen revolves around partly familial, partly tribal groups called “hearths” – and expulsion means sure death from cold. ![]() ![]() She is simply a brilliant novelist, an unflinching chronicler of life in America right now, and Sunburn is her dark, gleaming noir gem. “Every time Laura Lippman comes out with a new book, I get chills because I know I am back in the hands of the master. “A masterful mix from a total pro.” - People “Cool and twisty.” - New York Times Book Review “Fast-paced and unpredictable, Sunburn is a smart, sly riff on love in a world of trouble that’s puzzling until the very last piece falls into place.” - O, the Oprah Magazine ![]() “Fast-paced and unpredictable…a smart, sly riff on love in a world of trouble that’s puzzling until the very last piece falls into place.” - O, the Oprah Magazine “Cool and twisty.” - New York Times Book Review ![]() Is their love strong enough to withstand the truth, or will it ultimately destroy them? Was it an accident, or part of a plan? By now, Adam and Polly are so ensnared in each other’s lives and lies that neither one knows how to get away-or even if they want to. Still, each holds something back from the other-dangerous, even lethal, secrets. Over the course of a punishing summer, Polly and Adam abandon themselves to a steamy, inexorable affair. And he stays-drawn to the mysterious redhead whose quiet stillness both unnerves and excites him. Adam says he’s also just passing through. ![]() ![]() “Suspenseful as hell, and she writes like a dream Lippman’s always good, but this is a cut above.” -STEPHEN KING They meet at a local tavern in the small town of Belleville, Delaware. ![]() |