Orchid tree-inspired skyscraper starts to blossom in Hong Kong

Envisioned as an orchid tree about to blossom, the ZHA-designed 2 Murray Road is under construction in Hong Kong. It will feature sustainable design and enable workers to get to their desk without touching any doors or elevator controls.

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Globe Valves with Fully Body-Guided Disc Handles Flow at High-Pressure Differentials

The new generation of globe valves with fully body-guided disc have an excellent ability to handle flow at high-pressure differentials.

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Four short links: 25 September 2020

<ol><li><a href=’http://adapton.org/‘>Adapton</a> — <i>A program P is incremental if repeating P with a changed input is faster than from-scratch computation. Adapton offers programming language abstractions for incremental computation.</i></li><li><a href=’https://octopus.com/blog/database-migrations-lessons-learned‘>Migration Lessons…

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Mirrored mixing bowl offers behind the scenes look at the art world

Looking like a massive mirrored mixing bowl with salad sticking out of the top, MVRDV's Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen has finally been completed. The project is hailed as the world's first publicly-accessible art depot and will host 151,000 works.

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Sennheiser aims for budget audiophiles with HD 560S headphones

Donning a pair of headphones is great for immersing yourself in music, but you can feel a little closed in after a while. Open-backs allow in more air for a more spacious sound, and Sennheiser has just announced a new pair for budget audiophiles.

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Interview: Roland Sands builds “Challenger RR” race cruiser for Indian

The bizarre "King of the Baggers" race plans to pit giant cruisers from Harley and Indian against each other at Laguna Seca. Tuner Roland Sands is race-prepping a Challenger for this crazy event, and we caught up for a very fun chat about it.

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