March 16, 2021, Gaza city, Gaza Strip, Palestinian Territory: Palestinian artist bassam Al-hajjar, 67, puts the final touches on a cement sculpture at his workshop in Gaza City on March 16, 2021. Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sculptural processes originally used carving (the removal of material) and modelling (the addition of material, as clay), in stone, metal, ceramics, wood and other materials but, since Modernism, there has been an almost complete freedom of materials and process. A wide variety of materials may be worked by removal such as carving, assembled by welding or modelling, or moulded or cast.
March 15, 2021: Turkish architects have designed an eco-floating hotel that generates it's energy from rotating in the ocean...Designed by Hayri Atak Architectural Design Studio (HAADS), the Eco-Floating Hotel is a project hoping to be opened in Qatar but also has the potential to be located in different areas thanks to its characteristic mobile feature...The HAADS team studied the project with various opinions and technical knowledge from many different disciplines and visions. Consultants from different fields such as ship construction engineers, ship architects played a big role in the project process...The project, which began in March 2020 and lasted 6 months, adopts the motto of minimum energy loss and zero waste as a principle according to the design approach it has put forward...Due to its characteristic moving feature it generates electrical energy by rotating around its position according to the water current and provides users with different perspective experiences...Created as a 5 Star Hotel, the Eco-Floating Hotel would measure 35,000 sq m (376,000 sq ft), and will have a total of 152 rooms. It takes the form of a big glass doughnut with greenery integrated into its exterior and also resembles Moshe Safdie's indoor waterfall with its huge vortex-like glass roof...The hotel would be situated just off the shore and supported on a series of floating platforms. The rotation action would move very slowly so as to not make guests dizzy and would take 24 hours to complete a revolution. This movement would be controlled by a dynamic positioning system, as used to help keep ships on the correct course, and would consist of a series of thrusters and propellers...Access to the hotel itself would be gained by a pier connected to the shore, or by helicopter or boat. Its interior would be centered around a lobby, with its 152 hotel rooms boasting luxury amenities like priv.