Dream Machines Brings Your Vehicular Fantasies to Life
Meet Shanon and Mark Parker of Parker Brothers Concepts, the auto fabrication group that’s pushing the limits of automotive ingenuity. The car-building brothers have worked together for years at their shop in Melbourne, FL, designing and building custom motorcycles and cars inspired by the fantastic machines seen on TV and in film. Whether it’s a…
Gehry Crowns Hong Kong’s The Peak With Twisting Apartment Complex
Opus Hong Kong; Photos: Frank Gehry/Swire Properties Hong Kong can now claim a Frank Gehry of its own, joining the ranks of Los Angeles and New York, Prague and Bilbao–cosmopolitan cities privileged with a billowing bauble with which to launch a minor tourism or luxury apartment campaign. The Opus Hong Kong, a 12-story residential tower…
Hundreds of Warbots Will Join Cops’ Ranks
The war in Iraq is (mostly) over. The war in Afghanistan is (slowly, incompletely) ending. And yet the new battlefield robots produced by a decade of war are having an easier transition to peacetime than some human veterans. The robots are simply trading their fatigues for the blue uniforms of American police. That’s what an…