Global Wellbeing

He touched lives as an engineer, inventor and agriculturalist With one of his home-built helicopters The Dr Ray Wijewardene Memorial Oration for 2023 will be on Friday, September 8 at the Institution of Engineers, Sri Lanka (IESL) auditorium at Wijerama Mawatha, Colombo 7 at 5.15 p.m.View(s): 361 Ray Wijewardene pioneered the use of technology in farming Lakmini Wijesundera, Founder & Executive Director BoardPACInc and IronOne Technologies will deliver this year’s oration on the topic ‘Globalizing Sri Lankan Technology: The BoardPAC Journey’. She is the first woman to be invited to deliver this annual oration. The Dr. Ray Wijewardene Memorial Oration was established in 2011 by the Ray Wijewardene Charitable Trust (RWCT) in collaboration with the Institute of Engineers Sri Lanka (IESL). Every year the engineering community of Sri Lanka comes together to remember Dr Ray’s invaluable contribution to the world and to acknowledge the decades of innovations around the world. Each year ...

Good jobs and household riches remain out of reach Nov 24th 2022 In 1985 two articles about the Bangladeshi population of east London appeared—one in an academic journal, the other in an education report. Both were despondent. Bangladeshi children were “seriously underachieving” at school, said the education study. The academic paper described knots of unemployed men hanging around the streets, and forecast even worse for Bangladeshis as London deindustrialised. Barring a major intervention, the authors wrote, “they will become more marginalised than at present.” Happily, something has happened to a group that accounts for about one percent of the population of England and Wales. Over the past two decades Bangladeshis in England have gone from performing worse than white Britons in the gcse exams taken at age 16 to performing considerably better (see chart). No other ethnic group has improved as much. Bangladeshis now compete for top university places and good jobs. Their progress su...

Ecotone Location :  Antibes Status :  Approved Estimated completion :  2025 Type :  Office, hotel Floor area :  41 978 m² Architects :   Jean Nouvel ,  OXO , AAFB The project, located in the heart of Europe largest technology hub, Sophia-Antipolis, will include 34 307 m² of offices and a 100 rooms hotel. Its main characteristic however will be the 25 000 m² of green spaces forming a hill covering the building. The building permit has been granted and work is expected to start next September. Location of STUDIOS 90 Residential Building / Sanjay Puri Architects, Kodla, India De Mayol à Pipady Location :  Toulon Status :  Proposed Estimated completion :  2025 to 2026 Type :  Mixed-use Floor area :  60 000 m² / 3 ha Architects :   Snøhetta ,  Corinne Vezzoni , Major Architecture The first two lots of the large urban redevelopment "De Mayol à Pipady" have been unveiled last week. Work is expected to start only in 2024...

Mumbai Masterplan Architect Hafeez Contractor’s Eastern Waterfront proposal of 2014. Sixteen years earlier, Contractor speculated, “All future development must necessarily be vertical.” Image Courtesy/Architect Hafeez   Hafeez Contractor’s idea of what the Mumbai port land development should look like, including the world’s tallest building Jiangbei new district

Biophilic Future Chengdu Sky Valley Parametric Proposal by MVRDV Tianfu New Area   Biophilic Chengdu Future Science and Technology City - MAD Architects Car free downtown Shenzhen Supertech-76 Canvas, Sector-68 Gurugram East Delhi Hub aka Karkardooma Transit Oriented Development, New Delhi Global City, Gurugram. Designed by French Egis to have twin 1000 Museum Miami copy cat towers.  NEOM Masterplan NEOM Trojena, KSA The Vault: a futuristic folded-vertical village featuring stunning architecture and trans formative experiences. spas

Edison Lite  Paris, 13th arrondissement, 71 Avenue Edison Lot D5  | ZAC Seguin-Rives de Seine Vitam Neydens extension Location  : Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Neydens  ZAC Léon Blum A lot of major projects are ongoing in the south of the city. Here's a map summarizing every projects in this area. Human Essence  Nouvelle Aquitaine, Lacanau   Pranava One Hyderabad elevations  Îlot Marie Curie Location  : Centre-Val de Loire, Tours