Friday, February 15, 2013
Modernizing the mashrabiya: Smart-skinned Al Bahar Towers near completion
Glass-skinned steel-frame skyscrapers have many advantages. They're relatively quick, inexpensive and easy to build and require comparatively few materials. But they pose problems; heat not least among them. Buildings with fully glazed facades are essentially greenhouses, so when the sun comes out, they can get uncomfortably hot. The problem that is more acute in hot climates like that of the United Arab Emirates, where, despite this fact, the appetite for glassy high-rise continues to be voracious.
TIPS FOR BETTER LIVING
A word from God's Word: "A wise man will hear and will increase learning; and a man of understanding will listen to wise counsel." Proverbs 1:5 (NKJV)
Benjamin Franklin said: "Well done is better than well said."
Thomas Jefferson; "I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. In other words, the harder I work, the luckier I get!"
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