Ferrari World, a Ferrari themed amusement park on Yas Island in Abu Dhabi, is the largest indoor amusement park in the world, due to open on 4th November 2010. It has more than 925,000 square feet under a roof shaped like the double-curve side profile of a Ferrari GT. It will feature the world’s fastest ride, the Formula Rossa roller coaster, which is expected to reach top speeds of more than 150 miles per hour…
The Vauban Quarter was created on an area of 38 hectares, 4 km to the south of the town center in Freiburg, Germany, on the terrain where the barracks of the French military forces once stood. It is an attractive, family-friendly neighbourhood for 5,000 people, in which civic commitment, collective building, and living with ecological awareness has great importance. Perhaps the best example of sustainable building is the Solar Settlement in Vauban, a 59 PlusEnergy home housing community. In 1994, Rolf Disch built the Heliotrope in Freiburg which was the world’s first home to create more energy than it uses.
Bossa nova is a style of Brazilian music originated in the wealthy neighborhoods, along the beaches of the city of Rio de Janeiro. João Gilberto is known as the “Father of Bossa Nova”. His recordings, including many songs by Antonio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes, established the new musical genre in the late 1950s. Bossa nova compositions often spoke of love, the beach, and beautiful women. The musical style evolvedfrom samba but is more complex harmonically and less percussive. In terms of harmonic structure, bossa nova has a great deal in common with jazz. The first bossa nova single to achieve international popularity was perhaps the most successful of all time, the Getz/Gilberto recording “The Girl From Ipanema“.
The Panama hat is a traditional hat of Ecuadorian origin that is made from the plaited leaves of the toquilla straw plant (Carludovica palmata). It has been known since the Spanish conquest in the 16th century. The hats became popularized during the building of the Panama Canal, during which a number of workers wore them to protect themselves from the sun. Since then the hats became known throughout the world as the Panama hat.Today, they can be found for sale all over the world at varying levels of price and quality.