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🏨 Housed in a 1927 building in the vibrant River North neighborhood, you'll be just 1 mile from both Willis Tower and Millennium Park. Take a peek at this funky place - one of the hotels we 💚 .
Part 2 of 20 Days Tour!
6th Photo - I took a flight and 🛫 to Ironwood, Michigan to take part in my first-ever Redbull 400 race. It was a really tough race and I was so grateful that I gave my best for it, won my heat and qualified into the Final and came back 4th placing overall even after I missed the podium. The bonus was that I got to spend time with new friends that I met there and I would like to thank them for the 2 Days 1 Night stay with them.
7th Photo - From Ironwood, I 🛫 back to Chicago for half day time to pack up my stuff that I left at Tim's place for the Redbull 400m and 🛫 to New York this time for the Empire State Building Run Up. I got 2nd place for it and super happy to finally visit New York for the first time in my life.
8th Photo - I then 🛫 to Los Angeles for a 12 hours transit, arriving early in the morning, walk around LA and I had a really really long walk from the Airport to the Muscle Beach.
9th Photo - At first, I was planning to go back after ESBRU, but while I was in Taipei, my friend from China told me about the races in WuHan and NanChang, and I decided to take part on both races. I 🛫 to NanChang from LA and transit at Shanghai. Dropped my luggage at the hotel provided by the Organizer of the NanChang Races and took a 🚆 to WuHan and stay a night there at an Airbnb place. I won the race in WuHan and took a 🚆 back to NanChang....
10th Photo - I got second place this time at NanChang International Towerrunning GrandPrix and took the 🚆 back to WuHan and stay a night there before the next ✈️ home from WuHan to KL International Airport.
It was a lots of flights and trains on these 20 Days, traveling here and there on last minute planning. I was so satisfied after that and I remembered I told myself that I am not going to do something like this again as this 20 days was really challenging 😅
Looking back now, I missed traveling so much. Hectic schedule of racing back to back to back to back to back were a magnificent trip in my entire life.
I learned a lot from this tour competing here and there. I am so glad to have the supports on doing this to fly 🇲🇾 Flag whenever I compete. Thank you each and everyone of you.
- Luyện đọc và tìm kiếm từ mới nào cả nhà!
Đề Cambridge IELTS 14 Test 2 - passage 2:
BACK TO THE FUTURE OF SKYSCRAPER DESIGN
Answers to the problem of excessive electricity use by skyscrapers and large public buildings can be found in ingenious but forgotten architectural designs of the 19th and early-20th centuries
A. The Recovery of Natural Environments in Architecture by Professor Alan Short is the culmination of 30 years of research and award-winning green building design by Short and colleagues in Architecture, Engineering, Applied Maths and Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge.
'The crisis in building design is already here,' said Short. 'Policy makers think you can solve energy and building problems with gadgets. You can't. As global temperatures continue to rise, we are going to continue to squander more and more energy on keeping our buildings mechanically cool until we have run out of capacity.'
B. Short is calling for a sweeping reinvention of how skyscrapers and major public buildings are designed - to end the reliance on sealed buildings which exist solely via the 'life support' system of vast air conditioning units.
Instead, he shows it is entirely possible to accommodate natural ventilation and cooling in large buildings by looking into the past, before the widespread introduction of air conditioning systems, which were 'relentlessly and aggressively marketed' by their inventors.
C. Short points out that to make most contemporary buildings habitable, they have to be sealed and air conditioned. The energy use and carbon emissions this generates is spectacular and largely unnecessary. Buildings in the West account for 40-50% of electricity usage, generating substantial carbon emissions, and the rest of the world is catching up at a frightening rate. Short regards glass, steel and air-conditioned skyscrapers as symbols of status, rather than practical ways of meeting our requirements.
D. Short's book highlights a developing and sophisticated art and science of ventilating buildings through the 19th and earlier-20th centuries, including the design of ingeniously ventilated hospitals. Of particular interest were those built to the designs of John Shaw Billings, including the first Johns Hopkins Hospital in the US city of Baltimore (1873-1889).
'We spent three years digitally modelling Billings' final designs,' says Short. 'We put pathogens• in the airstreams, modelled for someone with tuberculosis (TB) coughing in the wards and we found the ventilation systems in the room would have kept other patients safe from harm.
E. 'We discovered that 19th-century hospital wards could generate up to 24 air changes an hour-that's similar to the performance of a modern-day, computer-controlled operating theatre. We believe you could build wards based on these principles now.
Single rooms are not appropriate for all patients. Communal wards appropriate for certain patients - older people with dementia, for example - would work just as well in today's hospitals, at a fraction of the energy cost.'
Professor Short contends the mindset and skill-sets behind these designs have been completely lost, lamenting the disappearance of expertly designed theatres, opera houses, and other buildings where up to half the volume of the building was given over to ensuring everyone got fresh air.
F. Much of the ingenuity present in 19th-century hospital and building design was driven by a panicked public clamouring for buildings that could protect against what was thought to be the lethal threat of miasmas - toxic air that spread disease. Miasmas were feared as the principal agents of disease and epidemics for centuries, and were used to explain the spread of infection from the Middle Ages right through to the cholera outbreaks in London and Paris during the 1850s. Foul air, rather than germs, was believed to be the main driver of 'hospital fever', leading to disease and frequent death. The prosperous steered clear of hospitals.
While miasma theory has been long since disproved, Short has for the last 30 years advocated a return to some of the building design principles produced in its wake.
G. Today, huge amounts of a building's space and construction cost are given over to air conditioning. 'But I have designed and built a series of buildings over the past three decades which have tried to reinvent some of these ideas and then measure what happens. 'To go forward into our new low-energy, low-carbon future, we would be well advised to look back at design before our high-energy, high-carbon present appeared. What is surprising is what a rich legacy we have abandoned.'
H. Successful examples of Short's approach include the Queen's Building at De Montfort University in Leicester. Containing as many as 2,000 staff and students, the entire building is naturally ventilated, passively cooled and naturally lit, including the two largest auditoria, each seating more than 150 people. The award-winning building uses a fraction of the electricity of comparable buildings in the UK.
Short contends that glass skyscrapers in London and around the world will become a liability over the next 20 or 30 years if climate modelling predictions and energy price rises come to pass as expected.
I. He is convinced that sufficiently cooled skyscrapers using the natural environment can be produced in almost any climate. He and his team have worked on hybrid buildings in the harsh climates of Beijing and Chicago - built with natural ventilation assisted by back-up air conditioning - which, surprisingly perhaps, can be switched off more than half the time on milder days and during the spring and autumn.
“My book is a recipe book which looks at the past, how we got to where we are now, and how we might reimagine the cities, offices and homes of the future. There are compelling reasons to do this. The Department of Health says new hospitals should be naturally ventilated, but they are not. Maybe it’s time we changed our outlook.”
TỪ VỰNG CHÚ Ý:
Excessive (adj)/ɪkˈsesɪv/: quá mức
Skyscraper (n)/ˈskaɪskreɪpə(r)/: nhà trọc trời
Ingenious (adj)/ɪnˈdʒiːniəs/: khéo léo
Culmination (n) /ˌkʌlmɪˈneɪʃn/: điểm cao nhất
Crisis (n)/ˈkraɪsɪs/: khủng hoảng
Gadget (n)/ˈɡædʒɪt/: công cụ
Squander (v)/ˈskwɒndə(r)/: lãng phí
Reliance (n)/rɪˈlaɪəns/: sự tín nhiệm
Vast (adj)/vɑːst/: rộng lớn
Accommodate (v)/əˈkɒmədeɪt/: cung cấp
Ventilation (n)/ˌventɪˈleɪʃn/: sự thông gió
Habitable (adj)/ˈhæbɪtəbl/: có thể ở được
Spectacular (adj)/spekˈtækjələ(r)/: ngoạn mục, đẹp mắt
Account for /əˈkaʊnt//fə(r)/ : chiếm
Substantial (adj)/səbˈstænʃl/: đáng kể
Frightening (adj)/ˈfraɪtnɪŋ/: kinh khủng
Sophisticated (adj)/səˈfɪstɪkeɪtɪd/: phức tạp
Pathogen (n)/ˈpæθədʒən/: mầm bệnh
Tuberculosis (n)/tjuːˌbɜːkjuˈləʊsɪs/: bệnh lao
Communal (adj)/kəˈmjuːnl/: công cộng
Dementia (n)/dɪˈmenʃə/: chứng mất trí
Fraction (n)/ˈfrækʃn/: phần nhỏ
Lament (v)/ləˈment/: xót xa
Panicked (adj): hoảng loạn
Lethal (adj)/ˈliːθl/: gây chết người
Threat (n)/θret/: mối nguy
Miasmas (n)/miˈæzmə/: khí độc
Infection (n) /ɪnˈfekt/: sự nhiễm trùng
Cholera (n)/ˈkɒl.ər.ə/: dịch tả
Outbreak (n)/ˈaʊt.breɪk/: sự bùng nổ
Disprove (v)/dɪˈspruːv/: bác bỏ
Advocate (v)/ˈæd.və.keɪt/: ủng hộ
Auditoria (n)/ˌɔːdɪˈtɔːriə/ : thính phòng
Comparable (adj)/ˈkɒm.pər.ə.bəl/: có thể so sánh được
Contend (v) /kənˈtend/: cho rằng
Liability (n)/ˌlaɪ.əˈbɪl.ə.ti/: nghĩa vụ pháp lý
Convince (v) /kənˈvɪns/: Thuyết phục
Assist (v) /əˈsɪst/: để giúp đỡ
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??美國?芝加哥｜市中心遊船體驗?️
芝加哥位於美國嘅中西部，係僅次於紐約同埋洛杉磯嘅第三大都會區！
相信好少人會特登去個度旅遊，公幹嘅可能比較多吧！
我地都係作為中轉站順道遊而喺芝加哥逗留左1晚，主要喺市中心行下！
芝加哥市中心有好多建築物和摩天大廈，最出名嘅旅遊項目就係”Architecture River Cruise Chicago”，
係一個75分鐘嘅市中心遊船體驗，沿途會見到芝加哥嘅Skyline同埋超過40座芝加哥著名嘅建築物！
我地就將75分鐘嘅旅程濃縮成3分幾鐘，一齊嚟睇下芝加哥河上嘅風景啦！
以下是影片中提及的景點：
?海軍碼頭（Navy Pier）
?箭牌大廈（Wrigley Building）
?論壇報大廈（Tribune Tower）
?芝加哥河（Chicago River）
?譚繼平紀念公園（Ping Tom Memorial Park）
?威利斯大廈（Willis Tower）
?芝加哥川普大廈（Trump Tower Chicago）
?馬里納城 (Marina City Goldberg)
Shoreline Sightseeing - Architecture Tour
https://shorelinesightseeing.com/tours-taxis/architecture-tour/
The fans of Philadelphia have always been a passionate bunch. They have always appreciated the superior talent that has passed through the city and the players who put their heart and soul into the game.
One player who embodies that notion is Hall of Fame guard Allen Iverson who put his 6-foot body on the line every night and led the 76ers to the NBA Finals in 2001. He put a lot of blood, sweat, and tears into Sixers basketball and there is a reason why his number 3 jersey hangs in the rafters at the Wells Fargo Center.
While at Fan Fest on Saturday, Iverson took the stage to appreciate the fans just a bit more and he got very emotional talking about the love he received from them on a nightly basis.
Please be advised that the clip below contains language that some might consider offensive.
I always gave you all everything I had and the thing I love about you all is that you all appreciate that [expletive]. When I walk in that building, I always hear your voices…I always wanted to give you all everything I had…I think when it comes to Mike(Jordan) and Chicago, It hink that relationship is built, but it ain’t nothing like us. This [expletive] legendary!
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