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Fyrtornet High-Rise Building / WingrdhsSave this picture! WingrdhsArchitects: WingrdhsAreaArea of this architecture projectArea:9020 mYearCompletion year of this architecture project Year: 2024 PhotographsPhotographs:WingrdhsManufacturersBrands with products used in this architecture project Manufacturers: Daloc, Gyproc, Hgans, Moelven, Nordan, Schco, Stlprofil, Swedoor, Wood Tube Electric Engineers: Rejlers, Granitor ElectroMore SpecsLess SpecsSave this picture!Text description provided by the architects. Fyrtornet is Malm's new timber high-rise a striking addition to the skyline and the final piece completing Hyllie Square. It's the first landmark to greet travelers as they arrive from the continent, a falu-red timber tower reaching proudly skyward, the tallest of its kind in Scandinavia.Save this picture!Save this picture!Save this picture!The ground floor welcomes a public foyer and a living room for the people of Malm. On the second floor, a district library remains open into the evening, with reading rooms oriented towards the square, offering spaces to pause and reflect. Above, office floors unfold with warm timber interiors and triple-height, glass-enclosed terraces that bring in natural light and air. At the top, a shared rooftop garden opens to expansive views of the resund Strait.Save this picture!Sustainability shapes every facet of Fyrtornet. The building's design reduces its carbon footprint from the structural timber frame to the cedar shingle faade. It stands as Scandinavia's tallest office building, constructed entirely of timber. Integrated solar panels on the glass faades and a geothermal energy system further enhance efficiency and resource-conscious design.Save this picture!Save this picture!Save this picture!Save this picture!More than a structure, Fyrtornet is a meeting place and a key element in the Embassy of Sharing district. The public foyer seamlessly blends with commercial spaces and a district library, encouraging encounters between different groups and enriching urban life. A recessed entrance and overhanging roof create a sheltered urban space, inviting people to gather. Two faades are dressed in red cedar shingles, while the other two feature double-glazed curtain walls that reflect the city beyond.Save this picture!Fyrtornet combines thoughtful, holistic design with innovative timber construction and a commitment to social and ecological sustainability. It is an architectural statement that both respects Malm's urban context and aspires to shape its future. A crafted addition to the city's skyline that we hope will enhance Malm's built environment and inspire those who encounter it.Save this picture!Project gallerySee allShow lessProject locationAddress:Hyllie Boulevard 21, 215 32 Malm, SwedenLocation to be used only as a reference. It could indicate city/country but not exact address.About this officeMaterialsWoodGlassMaterials and TagsPublished on February 01, 2025Cite: "Fyrtornet High-Rise Building / Wingrdhs" 01 Feb 2025. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/1025952/fyrtornet-high-rise-building-wingardhs&gt ISSN 0719-8884Save!ArchDaily?You've started following your first account!Did you know?You'll now receive updates based on what you follow! Personalize your stream and start following your favorite authors, offices and users.Go to my stream

Weve all felt it that midday slump when your back aches, your shoulders are tight, and your focus starts to fade. The culprit? Hours of sitting at your desk. Although the demands of modern work often tether us to our chairs, staying active doesnt require you to abandon your workspace. By doing just a few simple stretches at your desk, you can loosen up stiff muscles, boost your energy, and improve your focus throughout the day. The Benefits of Stretching at Your DeskSitting for prolonged periods has been linked to a variety of health problems, including obesity, back pain, poor circulation, and it seems to even be linked to an increased risk of death from cardiovascular disease and cancer. Regular stretching can help counteract these issues by improving blood flow, reducing muscle stiffness, and promoting better posture. Studies have also shown that stretching can enhance mood and concentration, helping to give you the extra boost needed to push through the day. Read More: Why Are Some People More Flexible than Others?Simple Stretches You Can Do at Your Desk1. Neck RollsGently tilt your head toward one shoulder, hold for about 5 seconds, and then slowly roll your chin across your collarbone to bring it toward your chest. Continue rolling your head to the other shoulder and repeat. This stretch helps relieve tension in the neck and shoulders, which are areas often strained from hunching over screens without moving our heads much.2. Seated Spinal TwistSit upright in your chair with your feet on the ground and place your right hand on the backrest or arm of the chair. Twist your torso to the right, using your left hand on your right leg for support. Hold for 10 to 15 seconds and repeat on the other side. This move is excellent for loosening up your spine and improving flexibility.3. Wrist StretchesExtend one arm straight out in front of you with your palm facing up. Use your other hand to gently pull your hand downward, stretching your fingers, wrist, forearm, and elbow for about 15 to 30 seconds. Repeat with your palm facing down, again pulling your hand downward. These stretches are especially helpful for anyone who spends long hours typing away at their computer.4. Shoulder ShrugsWith your feet flat on the ground, sit up straight and lift your shoulders up toward your ears while also slightly rolling your shoulders backward. Hold them there for a few seconds then release them back down. Repeat 10 to 15 times. This quick and easy stretch can do wonders to reduce tension in your upper back and shoulders.5. Seated Leg ExtensionsMake sure your thighs are parallel to the ground, then extend one leg straight out and hold it parallel to the floor for a few seconds before lowering it. Be sure to keep your back straight and your arms at your sides. Repeat with the other leg. This move strengthens your quadriceps while also improving circulation, which is often compromised when sitting for long periods of time.6. Seated Cat-Cow StretchWhile seated, place your hands on your knees. While you exhale, roll your shoulders forward and tuck your chin toward your chest to round your back (cat pose). Then, with your hands on your hips, open your chest by gently rolling your shoulders back and arching your back (cow pose). Repeat each pose 3 to 5 times to both help release back tension and improve mobility.7. Seated Side StretchWith your feet flat on the ground in front of you, raise your left arm overhead and lean toward your right side. Hold for about 10 seconds and then repeat the move on the other side. The seated side stretch helps reduce stiffness and tension in your obliques, spine, and torso.8. Hamstring StretchScoot to the edge of your chair and extend one leg straight out with your heel on the floor. Lean forward slightly, keeping your back straight, until you feel a gentle stretch along the back of your thigh. Hold for about 20 to 30 seconds, then repeat with the other leg. This stretch is great for loosening up tight hamstrings and relieving lower-back ache, which often occurs during extended periods of sitting.9. Eye Relaxation ExerciseWhile not a traditional stretch, giving your eyes a break can be just as crucial. Try following the 20-20-20 rule: Every 20 minutes, look at an object 20 feet away, and focus on that object for at least 20 seconds. This helps reduce digital eye strain, a common problem in todays screen-heavy work environment.Tips for Desk Stretching SuccessSet a Reminder: Use a timer or app to remind you to stretch at least a few times a day. A couple of quick few-minute stretches can make a big difference if you do it regularly. Stay Hydrated: Drinking water throughout the day not only keeps you hydrated, but it also encourages you to get up for refills.Get Creative: While the stretches above are a great starting point, feel free to modify or add to them based on what works best for you. Read More: 6 Ways to Exercise Outdoors in WinterIncorporating Movement into Your WorkdayDesk stretches are just one part of staying healthy at work. Whenever possible, try to take brief breaks to stand up and walk around. You can do this by taking a quick stroll during a phone call or choosing to stand during a virtual meeting. These small adjustments can complement your stretching routine and promote overall health and well-being.Dont let your desk job take a toll on your body. Incorporating a few simple stretches isnt just about staying loose and easing tension its a way to refresh your mind and reclaim control over your workday. So, take a moment to stretch, breathe, and move. Your body (and productivity) will thank you for it.This article is not offering medical advice and should be used for informational purposes only.Article SourcesOur writers at Discovermagazine.com use peer-reviewed studies and high-quality sources for our articles, and our editors review for scientific accuracy and editorial standards. Review the sources used below for this article:UCLA Health. Back Pain When SittingMayo Clinic. What are the risks of sitting too much?UCDavis Health. How to improve your stretching and flexibility for better healthCleveland Clinic. Try These Stretches if You Sit All Day at WorkTexas Health. Take a Break: Simple Office Stretches for a Happier SpineMayo Clinic. Adult healthCleveland Clinic. 6 Desk Exercises That Help You Get Stronger While Working

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The gaming industry, by definition, is an ever-changing stream of plot lines, character creation, and franchises that forever alter the brain chemistry of the players who experience them. Then add to that the enhancement of graphics over decades plus game consoles that are dynamically re-engineered every few years, and thus, a new era of gaming is born. Anyone who has been witness to the advancements over the last 30 years has been present for some monumental moments, many of which changed the course of the gaming industry forever.

Whim Fragrances are not one of the first things you will unlock in Infinity Nikki, but once you do, they can be an incredibly useful addition to Nikki's outfits. They can completely alter the way you use your abilities, specifically Purification. This will make your attacks much more powerful and change the way you battle enemies.

A twist, however seismic, can only take a story so far. Thankfully for Paradise, Hulus new sci-fi thriller in which a presidential assassination is only the tip of a Lost-esque iceberg, great performances and more interesting questions lie on the other side of revelations.While episode 1 offers a big surprise the cast is actually living in an underground bunker built under a mountain in Colorado! episode 2 focuses on Sinatra (Julianne Nicholson), a tech billionaire pulling the strings on the post-apocalyptic operation. Early in the series, we see Sinatra hovering in the background as Secret Service agent Xavier Collins (Sterling K. Brown) investigates the murder in the present and President Cal Bradford (James Marsden) prepares for the worst in the flashbacks.According to Paradise writer Katie French, creator Dan Fogelman and the team debated if having Nicholson appear without much explanation in everywhere from the White House to the streets of the unnamed suburban sanctuary would strike the audience as odd.We really thought that flashback scene in the pilot was going to be weird if there was just this random billionaire in the Oval Office, French tells Polygon. And now its like Oh God, all too prescient.While Elon Musks haunting presence in the second Trump administration aligns all too perfectly with Paradises setup, Sinatra already seems more complicated than her real-life tech-bro counterpart (or at least more watchable). As we learn in the second episode, Sinatra was, at least at one point in her life, a warm, human businessperson. We see her flirt at a bar, strike up conversation with her future husband, then propel into the future, where an app has made her a titan of business, while the birth of her child has made her a dedicated mother. The Sinatra of the present, seen interrogating Xavier over Cals death and maintaining order in the underground utopia, could not be further from her past self. But episode 2 offers an inflection point: the death of Sinatras son, and the grief she carries from that moment forward.We knew that we wanted a really strong foil to Xavier we wanted her to be this incredibly powerful woman, French says. I remember early on, Dan asked the room if she should be more of this hardass tough lady, or when we were still casting, should we go a little bit older, a little bit warmer? And I was like: Lets do the mommy version of this. Let her be a mother.Paradise was pitched as a throwback to 90s and 2000s action thrillers of the Tony Scott mold. French says from the outset Fogelman was talking about movies like Crimson Tide and Man on Fire, full of power players and ticking-clock action. The structure gave the team the ability to probe what different types of individuals at various levels of power would do to protect their families.We gravitated, especially Dan, toward the question, French says. But that can also be a little bit creepy for [Sinatra]. We wanted it to be humanizing. We wanted her to have this story if she has everything in the world that you could possibly want. But there are some things that are outside of your control and that can still crush you.Despite possessing bottomless pockets and the drive of a disruptor, the Sinatra of the past cant save her child from terminal illness. Its an impossible situation, and Paradise charts the aftermath in challenging scenes between the billionaire and her therapist.French says the arc only works because of Nicholson. In present-day scenes, Sinatra could easily be very mustache-twirly, but the writer says Nicholsons performance really made everything they have cooked up for future episodes possible.We really needed [episode 2] to ground us in her humanity and her empathy and the loss that she is going through. I remember sitting next to Dan during some of these scenes on set and going, I think that she could do anything after this episode and people might still be OK. [] I think we push her very far in this season and we needed this springboard to take us there.French stresses that the Paradise team did not set out to let billionaires off the hook for diabolical behavior. Future episodes make it clear that Sinatra, however sympathetic, has careened off the moral cliff in her effort to preserve the bunker. Its unclear if she had a hand in killing the president well have to wait until the finale for any clarity on that front but at some point between losing her son and hiring engineers to build a cataclysm-safe neighborhood for 20,000 people, she broke bad.Resemblance to Elon Musk is not coincidental, but its not a one-for-one either.Shes playing god on a totally different level, French says of where Sinatras going in season 1. Shes kind of this multidimensional character whos living and breathing with us and making decisions that I think surprise her.Three episodes of Paradise are now streaming on Hulu. New episodes drop every Wednesday.

The Academy Awards have had a spotty track record when it comes to awarding the Best Picture prize over the last couple of decades. Sure, sometimes the Academy gives the trophy to Oppenheimer, a verifiable classic and towering achievement in storytelling, but more often than that it goes to middling or outright bad films, like Nomadland, Green Book, Birdman, and Argo, or movies time has forgotten entirely, like The Artist or CODA. But now that Parasite has arrived on Netflix, its a great time to remind yourself that every once in a while, the Academy finds the strength to hand its biggest award to a movie that is truly special.To say director Bong Joon-hos black comedy about class has aged well would be an understatement. Everything about Parasites story of the poor Kim family conning their way into the lives of those above them (both figuratively and literally) in the Korean social strata still works wonderfully on a thematic level. But what may surprise viewers upon revisit is just how bleakly funny the movies various sequences are.No series of events in any movie from the last decade is as equally tense and horribly funny as the familys poisoning of the Park familys previous maid in order to get her replaced. Director Bong weaponizes his own excellent filmmaking and clever writing to drag the audience into a terribly uncomfortable position: We spend the sequence rooting for this family to exploit this womans allergies to steal her livelihood. Its objectively awful, but so are the familys circumstances.Managing to keep our sympathies and the tension high for that entire scene would be impressive enough, but Bong Joon-ho manages to sustain that delicate balance through the entire film something he seems to be continuing in his next movie, Mickey 17, if the trailers are any indication. Plenty of movies manage to mix in elements of horror, comedy, and thriller-like tension, but most of those movies do it in different places across their run time. One of the things that makes Parasite so terrifically unique is that every moment of the film feels infused with all these genres at once. This is also what makes it not just a worthy Best Picture winner, but a truly special one.Of course, none of this Parasite praise is to say that the Academy hasnt done anything right in the last two decades. Moonlights Best Picture win continues to set a shining example of what the Oscars can be, and nominated alongside Parasite were Little Women and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, both of which would have served as worthy winners. But, as we head into another month of discourse about a particularly weak crop of Best Picture nominees at this years Academy Awards, including a few truly bleak options, its worth heading to Netflix to remind ourselves of how lucky we are that Bong Joon-hos masterpiece got the recognition it deserved.Parasite is streaming on Netflix and available for digital rental/purchase on Amazon and Apple TV.