The Shape-shifting Prada Transformer Building
Inhabitat.com
Transformer will be built from a steel framed tetrahedron skinned in a plastic membrane. The tetrahedron is framed by four shapes: A hexagon, cross, rectangle and circle. Depending on the activity, whether staging a fashion show or showing ...
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New York Times
... this week to Prada's Transformer, a shape-shifting temporary structure in Seoul. The Transformer is set to alter its perspective, just as the architect Rem Koolhaas envisaged when, in September, he held a tiny model of his inventive tet...
Chemical trap takes the sting out of white phosphorus
New Scientist
White phosphorus, a highly reactive form of the element, is made of four phosphorus atoms linked together in the shape of a tetrahedron. It reacts violently with oxygen and is the active ingredient in numerous explosive devices, including i...
Commentary: Is Obama skidding or crashing?
CNN
There is some technique to fire-eating, but most of the practice goes into learning that one's mouth is wet enough, most of the heat goes up enough, and cutting the oxygen leg off the fire triangle (it's now a fire tetrahedron, but I learne...
World Record In Packing Puzzle Set In Tetrahedra Jam: Better ...
Science Daily
The tetrahedron, which is part of the family of geometric objects known as the Platonic solids, must be packed in the face-to-face fashion for maximum effect. But, for significant mathematical reasons, all other members of the Platonic soli...
Dark matter 'highway' funnels gas into galactic pileup
New Scientist
Just imagine three stars on the apexes of a tetrahedron. Radiation pressure from them would concentrate solar winds into the center of the form. With several tetrahedrons, matter would tend to accumulate on the filaments linking the centers...
Torture? It Probably Killed More Americans than 9/11
Common Dreams
Even atomic structures that have been photographed look like the platonic solids, carbon= tetrahedron, et al... The same patterns emerge when an electro-magnetic current passes through water or iron filings on a plate... It generates distur...
The Ladies' Diary
MAA Online
The six edges of any irregular tetrahedron are opposed two by two, and the nearest distance of the two opposite sides is called breadth; so that the tetrahedron has three breadths and four heights. It is required to demonstrate that, in eve...
Summer camp gives hands-on lessons
Corpus Christi Caller
CORPUS CHRISTI — During her first day at camp Ariel Magaña learned a new word—tetrahedron. On the second day, she brought the definition of it to life using straws, string, tissue paper and glue. Ariel, 14, and her classmates on Tuesday mad...
Cutting-Edge Technique, but No Gut Reaction
New York Times
A circle produces one shape, a square another, but what about a pentagon or a tetrahedron? And what’s the effect if rendered almost entirely in black materials, synthetic and natural? Those were the basic structures that Rei Kawakubo gave h...
A B C D E F G H J K L M N O P R S T V W Y Z
CNN
Gad Rausing, 77, Swedish-born billionaire ranked 31st on the 1999 Forbes list of wealthiest people who helped develop a variety of tetrahedron-shaped paper milk and juice cartons used around the world; January 28, Montreux, Switzerland. Zel...
Physical science organizations honor Chicago faculty members
University of Chicago Chronicle
... Award in 1997, the Max Tishler Prize in 1998, Le Grand Prix de la Foundation Maison de la Chimie in 2002, the National Prize of the Purple Medal (Japan) in 2002, the Molecular Chirality Award in 2003, the Yamada Prize in 2004, the Tetra...
Rem Koolhaas Designed a Fabulous Transforming Building for Prada
Nymag.com
Rem Koolaas designed the tetrahedron-shaped "transformative building," which he describes as a "dynamic and living organism." That means it changes shape to suit the event it's hosting. Luxist explains: The 65-ft. high tetrahedron is compos...
New Clues About A Hydrogen Fuel Catalyst
Science Daily
Their initial work showed that the catalyst worked as a molecule that contained a core of four rhodium atoms in a tetrahedron, or a triangular pyramid, with each corner decorated with boron and other elements. But the rhodium and other atom...
Life of the Party: Good Times Return to Fashion Week
Wwd.com
The duo came to Seoul with Rem Koolhaas, whose Office for Metropolitan Architecture designed the tetrahedron-shaped structure. The Transformer will sit on the grounds of Seoul’s Gyeongui Palace until the fall. The juxtaposition of tradition...
