There are quite a few interesting new websites in the www which could be also of interest to you. WYP for example offers a unique community which gives users the opportunity to buy property.

Currently, one hectar of land costs € 9.95. It is limited to the virtual world, so there is no real ownership - but why not becoming a virtual landlord?

This weekend the see conference, a conference on visualization of information, took place in Wiesbaden, Germany, for the third time.

Julien De Smedt from JDS Architects, Copenhagen, presented a showcase of his actual work. In his speech he focusses on the influence of visualization on the perception of space, and it was quite impressive to see the results of this approach.

The full presentation can be seen here:
http://www.see-conference.com/#/en/Livestream/?stream=seeconference3_jul...

I recently wrote about the incredible heights of skyscrapers (Let's talk about skyscrapers) and just when I was starting to wonder, how long one would be staying in the elevator to get to the top of such a high building, I came across another article of the Wirtschafts Woche. It was stating that a Japanese manufacturer of elevator (Hitachi) is attempting to break the current elevator speed world-record of 1010 meter per minute. The new Hitachi elevators will shoot up the skyscrapers with 1300 meter per minute. So, don’t forget the ear-clearing, when you will be staying in one of those high-speed elevators.

"Wolkenkratzer" was one of the words applicated for the contest of the most beautiful german word. Aditi Rao from India wrote to this:

"Ein Mensch zu sein bedeutet überhaupt ein Wille, Unsterblichkeit zu beherrschen.

Das überall sichtbare Merkmal unserer Zeit ist der Wolkenkratzer, der unser Wunsch, unsere Identität auf die Zukunft aufzuprägen äußert.