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html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd" Iceland Design and Architecture revealed details about its exhibition at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale. Titled Lavaforming, the exhibition will represent Iceland in its national pavilion at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition during the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale. Lavaforming, curated by Arnhildur Pálmadóttir and developed by her team at s.ap architects, showcases a speculative future in which controlled lava flows create cities, and offers tangible experiments to illustrate the vast potential of this renewable resource that has long been regarded as a threat.Lavaforming. Image © s.ap architectss.ap architects, which features Arnar Skarphéðinsson as well, an architect and co-creator of Lavaforming; Björg Skarphéðinsdóttir, design specialist; and architect Sukanya Mukherjee has performed pioneering tests on materials to manipulate lava within a laboratory environment, which involves processes like re-melting it and casting it in molds. Lavaforming. Image © s.ap architectsThe results yield smooth, glass-like black bricks and columns—robust foundational elements for renewable infrastructure that pave the way for sustainable architecture in volcanically active areas like Iceland. Pálmadóttir was awarded the renowned Nordic Council Environment Prize in 2024 due to her emphasis on environmentally aware architectural practices.s.ap arkitektar, 2025. Image © Sonja Margret OlafsdottirNew tests, to be showcased in the Pavilion, have investigated the properties of lava as it cools under controlled conditions. The latest investigation focuses on the potential of basalt as a mono-material in construction and the possibility of creating entire structures solely from basalt lava. The experimental outcomes yielded by the team indicate a promising way ahead regarding what conditions are required to melt basalt and create material of sufficient strength to be utilized as a building material. The Lavaforming project poses the question: what would natural architecture on Earth be like if it were free from harmful mining and non-renewable energy extraction?.Lavaforming. Image © s.ap architects"As nations across the globe adapt to changing weather patterns in a warming world, it is essential that we involve architects, artists, and designers in conversations about solutions," said Iceland’s Minister of Culture, Innovation and Higher Education, Logi Einarsson. "Projects like Lavaforming allow us to explore groundbreaking ideas for designing with, rather than against, nature, which have enormous potential to be scaled and adopted widely. This project is an excellent example of the forward-thinking solutions being piloted by Iceland’s creative community to address the challenges of our time," Einarsson added.Lavaforming movie sketch. Image © s.ap architectsIn collaboration with s.ap architects, a multidisciplinary team—including writer Andri Snaer Magnason and musician/designer/technologist Jack Armitage—produces a short animated speculative film envisioning a city infrastructure built entirely from shaped lava. The film will showcase the viewpoints of six characters considering the world-altering advantages of this groundbreaking construction technology, which has revolutionized building methods and reshaped our climate change concerns. "Lava presents an enormous opportunity as a sustainable building material,” said Arnhildur Pálmadóttir, curator, architect, founder, and creative director of Lavaforming. "Our experiments demonstrate how we could one day create structures, and even entire cities, with lava. In our short film, we take the next step, imagining the year 2150 and a city made of lava. The project probes questions such as, ‘What does that city look like? How has this building material transformed human’s relationship to nature and the built environment? How has the paradigm for building shifted?," Pálmadóttir continued. Geldingadalir 2021. Image © Thrainn Kolbeinsson"Lavaforming is an exploration of materiality and ownership," said Arnar Skarphéðinsson, co-creator of Lavaforming. "We believe that the architecture profession today serves financial interest above all, and this limits its ability to positively affect society.""People cannot afford a home and are simultaneously uninspired by their urban surroundings; problems that are not due to a lack of creativity from architects, but rather the system and norms under which they operate." "The goal of this project is to offer a positive vision for our future that is unhampered by our current system. Lavaforming immerses visitors in our future vision where a local threat is transformed into a resource that addresses a global emergency," Skarphéðinsson added.Geldingadalir 2021. Image © Thrainn KolbeinssonIceland is participating for the first time in the International Architecture Exhibition of Venice Architecture Biennale with an open call. The Icelandic Pavilion is commissioned by Iceland Design and Architecture, which supports and promotes various forms of design as an essential element of the future Icelandic society, economy, and culture, with backing from the Ministry of Culture and Business Affairs in Iceland.Litli-Hrútur eruption in Iceland July 2023. Image © Thrainn KolbeinssonLitli-Hrútur eruption in Iceland July 2023. Image © Thrainn KolbeinssonThe Icelandic architect studio sap arkitektar is an interdisciplinary research studio with emphasis on speculative projects. Previously, Arnhildur Palmadottir proposed to create a new building material from molten lava to build an entire city in a few weeks, which aims to remove the carbon footprint on earth since "the eruption had already taken place" on an area.The 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale will take place from May 10 to November 23 November 2025 at the Giardini, the Arsenale and various venues in Venice, Italy. Besides Iceland's contribution, other contributions at the Venice Architecture Biennale include Estonia's Let Me Warm You exhibition, the Romanian Pavilion's "Human Scale" exhibition, the Luxembourg Pavilion's Sonic Investigations exhibition, the Albanian Pavilion's "Building Architecture Culture" exhibition, the Turkey Pavilion's "Grounded" exhibition, the Pavilion of the United Arab Emirates's "Pressure Cooker" exhibition, the Finland Pavilion's "The Pavilion – Architecture of Stewardship" exhibition. Find out all exhibition news on WAC's Venice Architecture Biennale page. Exhibition factsExhibition title: LavaformingCommissioner: Halla Helgadóttir, Iceland Design and Architecture.Curator: Arnhildur PálmadóttirExhibitor: s.ap architects: Arnhildur Pálmadóttir, Arnar Skarphéðinsson, Björg Skarphéðinsdóttir, Sukanya Mukherjee, Andri Snær Magnason, Jack ArmitageVenue: 2125 Ramo de la Tana, Venice (Near the main entrance of the Arsenale)The top image in the article: Lavaforming. Image © s.ap architects. > via Iceleand Pavilion 

The Assemblies scheme will add three extra floors to the nine-storey 150 Minories, alongside a rear extension, pocket park, health hub, co-working space, café and an ‘internal street’ linking Minories with Vine Street. The amenities will be open to residents and the public.  Developers HUB and Bridges Fund Management said the ‘next-generation’ homes had been designed to ‘appeal to the creative and business communities in the east and the City of London respectively’.  The private studio rooms will be fully furnished, with all-inclusive rents. The building will feature social areas throughout, designed to ‘foster a sense of community among residents’, according to the project’s backers. Advertisement 150 Minories was built in the 1950s as two separate buildings, but merged into a single structure in the late 1960s, with a new central core connecting the two wings. The 900m2 building has a steel and concrete frame with masonry infill, while its primary, eastern elevation features horizontal strip windows.  Under Morris+Company’s plans, the revamped building will still be organised around a central core, with east and west-facing flats accessed from a north-south corridor extending along the building.  The plans also include a new brick façade with single and double window bays forming a grid across most of the eastern elevation. Some setback elements of the building at upper levels will have a pleated perforated metal façade.  Morris+Company associate director and residential lead Hugh Queenan said: ‘By repurposing this 1950s concrete-framed building, we are not only reducing embodied carbon but also fostering a vibrant community – opening new urban connections and public realm between Minories and Vine Street.’ HUB managing director Damien Sharkey said: ‘To have our plans for Assemblies approved, closely following the approval of our Cornerstone development [designed by AHMM], is testament to the benefits that shared living homes can bring to the City of London. Advertisement ‘We believe that well-located, professionally managed next-generation co-living homes with exceptional public-facing amenity will appeal to those already working in the area while delivering added benefits to the local community.’ Bridges Fund Management director Celia Harrison said: ‘Assemblies, like Cornerstone, is a great example of how we can transform under-utilised, inefficient office buildings into attractive co-living developments that meet the huge demand for high-quality living space in urban areas.’ Construction is expected to begin on site next year. Current site view:

You can trust VideoGamer. Our team of gaming experts spend hours testing and reviewing the latest games, to ensure you're reading the most comprehensive guide possible. Rest assured, all imagery and advice is unique and original. Check out how we test and review games here It’s Tuesday, and we have another Fortnite downtime. This time, however, there is no big update. Epic Games will take servers down for the release of a hotfix. The good news, however, is that more content will arrive later in the day, including a new Fortnite Reload map. Besides Fortnite servers going down for a brief period, Epic will also perform maintenance on its online services. This process begins at 5 AM UTC and will last for up to seven hours. When will the Fortnite downtime end? Fortnite servers will go down at 6 AM Eastern Time (10 AM UTC) on Tuesday morning. Considering that most downtimes begin two hours earlier, this one is certainly odd. What makes it even more unusual is the fact that there will be no big update during the server downtime. Instead, Epic will only deploy a hotfix. Fortunately, the downtime will last for only an hour. Epic expects it to end at 7 AM ET (11 AM UTC), so the game will not be unavailable for too long. Unfortunately, the game developer will perform the maintenance on the Epic Online Services at the same time, and this is something that will last for approximately seven hours. During the downtime, each Fortnite mode will be unavailable. Image by VideoGamer The EOS maintenance is expected to be performed between 5 AM and 12 PM UTC on Tuesday. During this process, several services may experience degradation, including session invites, lobbies, and peer-to-peer communication. It’s important to note that this maintenance will affect other games that use Epic Online Services, not just Fortnite. While today’s downtime won’t bring new content to Fortnite, Epic will enable several new things later in the day. This includes Slurp Rush, a new Reload map, and potentially Vanguard Zadie, another free skin. Fortnite Platform(s): Android, iOS, macOS, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series S/X Genre(s): Action, Massively Multiplayer, Shooter 9 VideoGamer Related Topics Fortnite Subscribe to our newsletters! By subscribing, you agree to our Privacy Policy and may receive occasional deal communications; you can unsubscribe anytime. Share

A collab between former XCOM devs and Respawn.Star Wars will be getting a new single-player turn-based tactics game officially titled Star Wars Zero Company. Although a Nintendo release hasn't been mentioned, there's always a chance with the Switch 2 on the horizon.Read the full article on nintendolife.com

Reshma Saujani, founder of the non-profit Girls Who Code, got straight to the point.  “If I had applied to be the CEO of Girls Who Code, I wouldn’t have gotten the job,” she told Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, on the latest episode of the duchess’ podcast, “Confessions of a Female Founder.” “I didn’t code,” Saujani continued. “I majored in polyscience, speech communications, and the only thing I’d ever built was a failed [congressional] campaign,” she said, referring to when she tried running for Congress and lost. (She was the first Indian-American to run for Congress back in 2010). Saujani’s lack of experience in coding didn’t stop her from launching what has become one of the most well-known coding camps in tech. Girls Who Code says it has helped train more than 670,000 young girls, women, and nonbinary individuals in STEM and, at one point, received support from high-profile names in the tech industry, including Jack Dorsey and Microsoft. (The organization still seems to be kicking, whereas other groups, like Girls in Tech and Women in Code, have faced the reverberating impacts of the anti-DEI sentiment sloshing through Silicon Valley.)   Saujani chatted with Meghan about her early days of building the organization, while touching upon themes of motherhood and life after leaving Girls Who Code. Her interview illustrates the sacrifices many female founders make — and often conceal — while they focus on running a business. The conversation revealed Saujani’s drive as an entrepreneur to remain on the front lines pushing for change.  “This conversation was such a full-circle moment for me,” Saujani told TechCrunch, adding that she first met Meghan when she expanded Girls Who Code to the UK in 2019. “Confessions of a Female Founder” promises to talk to important women and share lessons about building a business. The podcast, which launched last week, has had a successful beginning. It’s currently the No. 1-ranked business podcast on Apple, ahead of Scott Galloway’s “The Prof F Pod.” In a comment given to TechCrunch, Meghan said she hoped the conversation inspired others to “explore a different vertical of being an entrepreneur: social entrepreneurship.”  “My conversations throughout ‘Confessions of a Female Founder’ have each been illuminating in their own way, and with Reshma, we chat about what it looks like for a woman to lead and succeed while also navigating motherhood with grit and grace,” she said.   Saujani’s conversation is at its best when business nuggets are dropped. For instance, the pair discussed the adage that when you go to someone for money, you get advice, but if you go to someone for advice, you will probably get money.  “You’re just going for advice, and then if it makes sense for them, they’ll offer up what they think you might need,” Meghan said.  But there were intimate moments too; Saujani chatted about her struggles running the nonprofit while dealing with miscarriages and an auto-immune disorder. “I was performing in front of these children that I desperately wanted,” she said. “It was eating me up inside.”  One of the main lessons in Saujani’s founder journey is, of course, taking leaps and not giving up. She took her chance in 2012 when she launched Girls Who Code after seeing that young women, especially women of color, were not entering STEM jobs. A child of Indian immigrants, she spoke about how she was bullied as a child and how that impacted her path in life. “I got beat up pretty bad,” she said, adding that she tried hard to assimilate into the white culture she grew up around. “But I also realized I am not white, and I’m never going to be, and I have a responsibility to actually teach people about difference [sic].”  Betting on women another theme — and one worth reiterating.  When Saujani launched her podcast, she thought it was important for young girls to have and understand the tools needed to solve the problems they will inevitably face. As the artificial intelligence revolution kicks off, betting on women has become more important than ever. Women make up just 22% of the global AI talent, with representation dropping as a role becomes more senior. AI is also threatening young women in unprecedented ways, most notably through the rise of shockingly accurate deepfake videos. (Girls Who Code says it has taught more than 8,000 students about AI). Saujani, now a mother, went on to launch Moms First, which advocates better working environments for moms. Meghan, she revealed, was an early supporter of the cause. The lesson there is a simple one.  “I might die with women having less rights than they had when I was born,” she said, adding that she realized she, like other women, were probably put on earth to keep hope alive. “You lose, you lose, you lose, you lose, and then you win.” 

CW+ Premium Content/Computer Weekly Thank you for joining! Access your Pro+ Content below. 15 April 2025 How will Trump’s tariffs hit tech? In this week’s Computer Weekly, we examine the potential impact of additional US tariffs on the global tech supply chain – and what it means for IT budgets. We look at the key considerations for IT leaders looking to move off VMware as a result of its licensing changes. And we speak to the man in charge of reviewing the controversial loan charge tax policy that affects thousands of IT contractors. Read the issue now. Access this CW+ Content for Free! Already a member? Login here Features in this issue What is the impact of US tariffs on datacentre equipment costs? by  Cliff Saran Moore’s Law predicts that every 18 months, IT buyers can get more for the same outlay. But US tariffs may mean they end up paying a higher price VMware backup: Key decision points if you migrate away from VMware by  Stephen Pritchard VMware’s pricing changes have spurred some organisations to move to new virtualisation environments, but they’ll need backing up. We look at the key points to consider View Computer Weekly Archives Next Issue  More CW+ Content View All E-Zine The desktop is changing

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What just happened? The McMurtry Speirling, an all-electric fan-assisted racecar, has added two more outrageous feats to its resume. Already known for obliterating the Goodwood Hillclimb record (bottom video), the Speirling just broke Top Gear's long-standing test track lap time - and became the first car to maintain sustained upside-down driving. The Speirling is a radically different approach to speed. Unlike most race cars that rely solely on power sent to the wheels, it devotes a chunk of its 1,000 horsepower to twin fans that suck air from beneath the chassis. The vacuum created dramatically increases downforce. The result is F1-level grip at any speed, not just high speed, giving it exceptional control when cornering, accelerating, or braking. The "fan car" idea isn't new. The Chaparral 2J and Brabham BT46B introduced the concept in the 1970s, but racing authorities quickly banned them for their an unfair advantage over racers using traditional aerodynamics. McMurtry's street-legal track weapon revives the idea with modern tech, generating twice its weight in downforce - 2,000kg on a 1,000kg car. That helped the Speirling demolish Top Gear's test track record with a lap time of 55.9 seconds. The previous best time, set by Renault's 2004 F1 car, was 59 seconds. Among street-legal cars, the Aston Martin Valkyrie was quickest at 1:08.3. Even Ford's outrageous electric Supervan 4.2, the fastest EV on the track until now, managed just 1:05.3. Electrek notes that McMurtry followed the lap record with another bold accomplishment: driving upside down, holding its inverted position for ten seconds while accelerating and braking a short distance at low speed. Hot Wheels once pulled off a loop-de-loop stunt with rally cars, but those relied on momentum rather than aerodynamic downforce. The Speirling maintained its inverted position using fan-driven suction, finally proving the long-standing theory that enough downforce can overcome gravity. Granted, the feat was more cautious than cinematic - it took place in a controlled setting, with safety in mind. Still, it's a world first that McMurtry called a "proof of concept." Speirling beating the Goodwood Hill Climb record in just 39.08 seconds. // Related Stories "With a longer inverted track or a suitable tunnel, we may be able to drive even further," McMurtry co-founder Thomas Yates noted. From record-breaking laps to gravity-defying stunts, the Speirling is no longer just a quirky science experiment. It's a real, working glimpse of what the future of racing - and extreme vehicle engineering - could look like.