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Archdaily.com 

Mesh House / Alison Brooks Architects

This project is a rare example of a newly built house in Central London, in the Hampstead Conservation Area. Alison Brooks Architects was commissioned by a private client to design a new model of family home, tailored to the fluid, informal lifestyles of its five family members. The project site is in Belsize Park, Hampstead, one of London’s most characterful neighbourhoods, known for its lush greenery and wide spectrum of domestic architecture. The site is both sloping and wedge-shaped, with... Читать дальше...

Wired Magazine 

What Came Before the Big Bang?

By studying the geometry of model space-times, researchers offer alternative views of the universe’s first moments.

The New York Review of Books 

Sudan Starves

Ninety-five percent of Sudan’s total grain production occurs in November and December. It should be a time of plenty. In the southeastern state of Blue Nile, farmers fashion conical gourds into wazza, horn instruments with a bright clear sound, which they play to celebrate the harvest season. Last year they were silent. In April 2023 a […]

NBC4i.com 

Woman, 35, receives $1 million bond in fatal southeast Columbus shooting

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- A 35-year-old woman appeared in Franklin County Municipal court twice on charges related to a fatal shooting in southeast Columbus. Danielle Hardy received a bond of just over $1 million on six charges, including the murder of 25-year-old Jahaan Harris on June 14. Hardy also has been charged with four counts [...]

Chicago Sun-Times 

In Toronto, immigrants find a modern, fast employment system

Elvia Malagón is a Pulitzer Center Richard C. Longworth Media Fellow.

TORONTO — Raunica Ahluwalia and her husband, Bikram Ahluwalia, work together at a table in a quiet, sun-filled room of the Toronto Reference Library.

The time they spend together — quietly talking while looking at each other’s laptops — is in contrast to when Bikram spent four or five days a week traveling in his role in senior management of a bank in Delhi, India. The couple migrated to Toronto through Express Entry in 2019... Читать дальше...

Chicago Sun-Times 

Why we traveled to Toronto to learn about immigration

Elvia Malagón is a Pulitzer Center Richard C. Longworth Media Fellow.

TORONTO — Nearly half of Toronto’s 2.7 million population identifies as immigrants.

The city’s diversity is visible on its streets. A stretch of a neighborhood includes Asian, Caribbean and Latino retail shops and restaurants. Pedestrians of Canadian, Sudanese or Indian backgrounds mingle while eating Mexican sushi or jerk poutine.

As the United States has doubled down on restrictive immigration policies... Читать дальше...

Chicago Sun-Times 

Churches, nonprofits house refugees amid shelter crunch in Toronto

Elvia Malagón is a Pulitzer Center Richard C. Longworth Media Fellow.

TORONTO — At first glance, the hotel room looks like a standard budget hotel with two beds, a television and a mini refrigerator.

But this hotel — at the edge of Toronto — isn’t open to the public. It’s staffed by Homes First, a Toronto-based nonprofit, and the nearly 400 people living out of the hotel rooms are “refugee claimants” — immigrants who fled persecution in their home countries.

Inside one room... Читать дальше...