The concept motorbike is the work of Israeli designer Amir Glinik, who centered his design around the theoretical application of the Ferrari Enzo’s V12 engine, chopped down to four cylinders and modified to drive just one wheel in a motorcycle frame. Around the V4 engine, Glinik has designed a fluid shape that may appear more futuristic in its styling than inspired by current roadcar designs, but certainly catches your attention. Glinik has even planned out the theoretical controls, which blend elements from an F-16 fighter jet (more common in his home country than Ferraris, anyway) and the Scuderia’s high-tech Formula One steering wheel, supplemented by a weatherproof touch-screen LCD atop the fuel tank.

“Vintage and modern Ferrari projects influence my design,” notes. “It’s a mix of what I find to be the best Ferrari lines with the latest technology I could think of in terms of engine, gear and driving management.” He has also made a version in bright yellow. As far as how fast it goes and how much the bike would cost, we can only speculate about very big numbers in both cases. We have no idea if Glinik’s V4, which he’s been working on for the past few years, will ever reach the production stage, but we think he’s got a real winner here.

Featured in Dr. No. Bond drives to Miss Taro’s home in the Blue Mountains; he is pursued by Dr. No’s thugs driving a LaSalle hearse. It is a Lake Blue example that was owned by a local resident in Jamaica where the scenes were filmed. In the novel Dr. No, Bond drives the car that formerly belonged to Commander Strangways, the murdered agent in Kingston. It is also driven by Quarrel.

While in Jamaica to investigate the murder of several British intelligence officers, Sean Connery’s 007 drives this Sunbeam Alpine roadster. This era Alpine featured a 1.6-liter four-cylinder engine that produced 90 horsepower and 97 pound-feet of torque, while its body was 155 inches long (the same as the first and second generation Miatas).

Bond was picked up from the airport in Kingston, Jamaica, by a taxi driver with a Chevrolet Bel-Air. Both cars were unspectacular production models, and therefore hardly worth mentioning. In From Russia with Love (1963) a 4 1/2 Liter Bentley Sports Tourer appeared right at the beginning – a car that was also a favorite of Ian Fleming, the author of the Bond novels. Later in the film, Bond is chauffeured in a black Rolls Royce in Istanbul. It was not until the third film, Goldfinger that a movie appeared that made an English sports car world famous.

In the movie, a leisurely drive through Marley-land turns into a high-speed chase from Dr. No’s goons known as the Three Blind Mice. The Alpine is certainly the forgotten car from the Connery era thanks to a certain other British car, although one could certainly argue that the Z3’s color combination in “Goldeneye” was inspired by this original Bond car.

Unique Buildings of Tomorrow I : Aqua Tower
Unique Buildings of Tomorrow II : Chicago Spire
Unique Buildings of Tomorrow III : CCTV Headquarters, Beijing
Unique Buildings of Tomorrow IV : Regatta Hotel, Jakarta
Unique Buildings of Tomorrow VI :The Russia Tower, Moscow
Unique Buildings of Tomorrow VII : Penang Global City, Malaysia
Unique Buildings of Tomorrow VIII : Gazprom Headquarters, St. Petersburg Russia
Unique Buildings of Tomorrow IX : Burj Dubai

Unique Buildings of Tomorrow V : Residence Antilia, India

Antilia, is the proposed name for a twenty-seven floor (490 ft or 149 mt) building presently under construction in Mumbai for Indian businessman, Mukesh Ambani, Chairman of Reliance Industries, whose family will occupy about 35,000 square feet (3,300 m²).

Named after the mythical island in the Atlantic, Antillia, the building will have only 27 liveable floors. It is designed by Chicago architects, Perkins & Will, is estimated to cost US$2 billion, and is inspired by the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. It is expected to be completed by September 2008.

Situated on a 4,532 sq. mt. plot at Altamount Road on the famed Malabar Hill, where land prices are upward of US$ 10,000 per square meter, the buillding will house parking for 168 cars, a movie theatre for audience of fifty, living quarters on four floors and three helipads.

You may have read details about Mukesh Ambani’s new house-in-the-making at Altamount Road, but even as work on its construction goes on in full swing, here on your right is the first picture of what it will look like when it’s complete. 

Mumbai Mirror is in possession of the entire architectural plan for Residence Antilia (as the house is going to be called, after a mythical island), the subject of enormous curiosity in the city ever since the Reliance Industries Ltd chairman purchased the 4,532 sq mt plot in 2002. 

The plan, drawn up by the firm Perkins+Will, reveals that the house will resemble a virtual glass palace, with entertainment centres, a health club, a swimming pool and various green spots thrown in for good measure. 

COVER STORY 

Construction of Mukesh Ambani’s new house at Altamount Road, where real estate prices are now in the region of Rs 75,000 per sq ft, began in late 2006, and the first six floors are already in place now. The building is expected to be complete in September 2008. 

27 FLOORS 

According to the plan, the house will rise to a height of 173.12 meters, equivalent to that of a regular 60-storeyed residential building. However, Antilia will have only 27 storeys in all, which means each floor will have a ceiling considerably higher than the current average of nearly three meters. 

SIX FLOORS FOR PARKING 

The first six floors — which have come up — will be reserved for parking alone, and that too for cars belonging only to Mukesh’s family. Space for a total of 168 ‘imported’ cars has been earmarked here. 

FLOOR FOR CAR MAINTENANCE 

Sources said the Ambanis would prefer to have all their cars serviced and maintained at an in-house service centre. This centre will be set up on the seventh floor. 

ENTERTAINMENT FLOOR 

The eighth floor will have an entertainment centre comprising a mini-theatre with a seating capacity of 50. 

BALCONIES WITH GARDENS 

The rooftop of the mini-theatre will serve as a garden, and immediately above that, three more balconies with terrace gardens will be independent floors. 

THE ‘HEALTH’ FLOORS 

While the ninth floor will a ‘refuge’ floor — meant to be used for rescue in emergencies — two floors above that will be set aside for ‘health.’ One of these will have facilities for athletics and a swimming pool, while the other will have a health club complete with the latest gym equipment. 

FOR GUESTS 

There will be a two-storeyed glass-fronted apartment for the Ambani family’s guests above the health floors. One more refuge floor and one floor for mechanical works will be built on top of these apartments. 

FAMILY 

The four floors at the top, that will provide a view of the Arabian Sea and a superb view of the city’s skyline, will be for Mukesh, his wife Neeta, their three children and Mukesh’s mother Kokilaben. 

AIR SPACE FLOOR 

According to the plan, two floors above the family’s residence will be set aside as maintenance areas, and on top of that will be an “air space floor,” which will act as a control room for helicopters landing on the helipad above. 

HELIPAD 

The plan states that three helipads are to be built on the terrace. 

However, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation officials told this paper that permission for the helipads has not been granted yet. “The residential plans were approved threefour years ago. Two levels of basement have also been shown in the proposed project,” Sudhir Shinde, deputy engineer at the BMC’s building proposals department said. 

STAFF 

Nearly 600 staffers are expected to work fulltime in the building, sources said. 

TOTAL STATS 

According to BMC records, the total area of Mukesh’s Altamount Road plot is 4,532.39 square meters. The proposed built-up area is 4,778.09 square meters (only for residential purposes), and the permissible built-up area 4,939.81 square meters.

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Recent rains in Northern india have resulted in increase of water level in the man made Sukhna Lake Chandigarh. Where on one hand its a good news for the aquatic life savers, its causing lots of issues for the Sukhna Lake based water sports center. The central island where all the events take place is about to get submerged into water completely. Its less then a meter away from getting submerged completely.

It rained for 36 hours straight one week back in Chandigarh, which resulted in this situation. Nevertheless, its one helluva sight to see. Everyone who has seen Sukhna lake before gives an amazing WOW expression looking at the lake now. I went to Sukhna Lake one day after the rains and captured these photographs.  

The story may not be recent, but a Lego version of one of the largest ships afloat never gets old. In February 2005, after watching a documentary about aircraft carriers, IT consultant Malle Hawking from Munich, Germany, was inspired to make one of his own - using Lego bricks.

Hawking said that he used to play and build Lego models when he was a boy but stopped in his teens. With about 25 pictures from the Internet for reference, he tried to copy the Harry S. Truman again and again until he got it right.

“It took me months to purchase the parts and besides assembling sessions after work I can’t think of anything I have done in my life before that was as exhausting as sorting through all the pieces,” said Hawking.

About £10,000, over 300,000 Lego bricks and more than a year later, his scale model of the aircraft carrier was finally completed.

Measuring over 5m long, 1.2m high and weighing more than 160kg, the Lego USS Harry S. Truman is the largest Lego ship in the world. It is just like the original even to the smallest of details. It features electric lights on the flight deck, in the hangar and inside the aircraft, as well as movable lifts and radar dishes, and even a motorized catapult.

The (real) USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) is the first ship in the United States Navy to be named after the 33rd President of the United States. She was commissioned on July 25, 1998, where Bill Clinton was the keynote speaker of the ceremony.

The aircraft carrier’s first deployment was in Operation Southern Watch from November 28, 2000 to May 23, 2001. During the Truman team’s involvement in OSW, the air wing flew 869 combat sorties, totaling more than 2,700 flight hours.

In competition year 2004, the USS Harry S. Truman won the Marjorie Sterrett Battleship Fund Award, an honor given to the most battle-ready ship in the US Atlantic Fleet. She also received the Battle “E” award for three consecutive years, from 2003 to 2005.