A total of 30 buildings that are part of this cone skip amsterdam project each building has its own design 20 different architects were involved in the project the houses were built on land and then brought to the dock by boat sustainability is particularly important to the inhabitants scones translates to clean ship. To achieve is to show that you can live. With a very sustainable house and in a Sustainable Way in the sense that we as a community. Like all the buildings paired to hikes house has its own solar power supply sustainable and eco Friendly Materials were used for all the homes. One of the 1st floating districts in amsterdam was built just a couple of years ago in the district of 50 houses on artificial islands demand for the Floating Homes is on the rise in the netherlands there are so. Areas where they are building houses in communities over 520200 houses. For even fun sark and mark this vision has now become reality 115. 00 square metres 2 floors a roof garden almost like a house in the countryside. There is one difference their home way. Yet but i did have a day where i need to sit. Around. A small price to pay for their dream of living on the water. My colleague Melissa Holroyd has been looking into this living on the water and as i said the world experts they are the netherlands is of course one of the lowest lying countries in the world. Areas of a below sea level that means they have actually have to take action this is nothing new for the dutch theyve been doing it for the last 800 years with docks and dikes and canals doing whatever they can to keep dry they also have a very long history of houseboats the situation there generally not just in holland is getting more yeah were Global Warming and rising sea levels means architects or aqua techs very hard for solutions. Skip is a possible solution to these environmental changes that were all facing of course. As we are meant to be environmentally friendly all these houses in the piece but tell us a bit more about homes a very well insulated theyre also connected to a network so if one house has excess energy and one house doesnt have enough energy they can then do a trade off and get some energy off their neighbor theyve also got to. Solar roofs many of them also have green roofs so people can grow vegetables on the roof if they so choose the waste water from the showers and toilets is treated as a refinery that uses it to produce more energy heat from the houses comes from a system that works like a geothermal pump that extracts heat from the can now the People Living there have also renounced their cars and instead share electric cars all sounds very wonderful big question how much that cost house costs between 300900000 year its not cheap is that while building Floating Homes can be more expensive because of the engineering and because of the architecture involved these same principles can be used to create more Affordable Housing and of course its not just a doctor problem i mean theres a whole lot going on when it comes to floating structures around the world in london for example british architects back up planning Floating Homes in the royal docks theyre also talking about of. Copenhagen has responded to the lack of Affordable Student Housing with the socalled urban rigor thats 12 floating houses designed by a danish architect else ingles is a very passionate doesnt shy away from some Greater Vision he has his idea of a Floating City for 10000 people in regions threatened by climate change. That looked a Pretty Amazing about what our guts for the future Melissa Holroyd fascinating stuff thank you very much. Now in 100 german must read a book by your. Father was a great of the beach office of the sixtys and seventys like jack kerouac and William Burroughs and he lived his life on the edge indeed at different times in his life he was a heroin addict and a drunk just like the antihero in his novel rule material so he knows what hes writing about is David Leavitts with. First page finished just a few 100 more before i can call myself a novelist i guess but when you get a look at this snazzy typewriter back in the sixtys nothings said take me seriously im a writer quite like this baby. How they would be a writer if you werent so busy. Its because the antihero raw material by york fall was a good he and his artist buddy lived in the attic of an estimable hotel where they pump themselves for cocaine heroin and opium to fuel their habit they cheat and steal how the even on his treasure typewriter. I got another kick to the stomach and i was lying outside so this was the pavement i tasted plenty worse but i didnt want to get used to it either i looked for my glasses until i realized that i was holding them i put them back on close up this pavement looked interesting there was even a croc running through the asphalt and through the crack a blade of grass was growing if thats the case i told myself you can get up to. The debts off heroin and becomes a drinker you find his place in bars all the while holding on to his dream of writing honest books about real life. The real life how do you. Your clothes are dying 3 years after raw material came out he was drunk walked onto a highway and was hit by a truck this book is his legacy intense real raw what follows it describes in raw material is life his own life youve never read a book like this one. Sounds good the british photographer a martin is a chronic age his projects are humorous yet sociological look at society his photos are original and entertaining and shows the quirks and idiosyncrasies of normal life theres a retrospective of his work at the moment in the field off here in germany so he visited some a lot more gardens there beforehand to photograph some of the onus and has included the results in his exhibition me was a. Must wonder if i was skeptical with him being a star photographer but he is barely walked in and that disappeared on his gun to kill time or to skip suspect days of us hes totally uncomplicated and he just loves taking photos of nothing we just werent allowed to laugh at 40 photographs people how they are the way we too look exactly no make up no fancy clothes its just me. Well i can show you as you all so i think in the end thats ultimately what is the best solution for you i mean why pretend youll Something Else you are. Yes i think to be a problem youve got to be obsessed i like obsession you know im obsessed myself and i look for other people who are obsessive because my favorite subject matter. Martin pa made his name in the 1900 s. With these images in the rundown seaside resort of new brighton near liverpool he captured moments from the Summer Holidays of the working classes daily life in the sacha era. Next he turned his camera on the middle and upper classes documenting the habits and quotes of his fellow britons with a heightened sense of situational comedy. Cause traveled the world documenting the idiosyncrasies of ordinary folks each technicolor. Crinkles spots in large pools extra pounds the unsparing eye of his camera captures everything. I. Say. I dont know why you think its being mean or nasty its just showing people as they are. Trying to protect the world of propaganda which is what were mostly up against you know but we all see the floor. For human thats all of the attraction of being here when he was with lord i mean why not celebrate that no one is perfect. And also has fun with his own image hes had his picture taken all over the world in every possible cheesy set up always in the same unsmiling pose. The results compiled in his book which i portray serve as a parody of portrait snaps in an age be full selfies. He also has an uncanny ability to blend into the scenery that announcing to dispute the photograph was couples without their feeling observed. Its time for distilled off the notes man told us to admire the results of pauls work these photos off ah. From the silliest they often know satirical commentary on a note meant gardening or german perfectionism instead then an affectionate tribute to the subject good to photography be mellowing with a huge fine any martin joins the subjects of his labors for a group photo its clear the photographer can blend in in front of the camera as well as behind it. I do like his photography always touched with a sense of humor and showing our way the human race really off mole on martin pa and Everything Else on the show on our website of course with g. W. Dot com slash culture and lots of all the topics on there as well so from pop culture from our thanks very much watching joins again said bought. The farm some sit. 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