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Entrepreneur Designs Shoes That Expand As Children Grow, Building Great Business (Watch)

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FYI to the non-parents out there, it takes at least 15 pairs of shoes for a child to grow from a toddler to a teenager—that’s a lot of trips to the Footlocker. Fortunately, an Indian entrepreneur from Pune has designed a line of shoes that slowly uncurl as the child ages, intuitively solving the problem and reducing unnecessary manufacturing waste. Called Aretto, the shoes were designed by Satyajit Mittal and his childhood friend Krutika Lal. Their innovative knitted uppers are designed with all the qualities a parent would want their kids’…

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The future of cinema lies in the evolution of its architecture

Domus

In order to survive, after a hundred years in which it has changed very little, the cinema must rethink itself by turning into a more comfortable space with fewer screens and many services. The cinema has changed very little in the first 100 years since it was invented. Sound was first introduced in 1927, widescreen between the 1950s and 1960s, multiplexes in the 1990s (the real great revolution), and then came the stadium-style seating arrangement (where seats are placed higher than the seats immediately in front of them) – and that…

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Saudi’s Qiddiya awards $750m contract to build Middle East’s biggest water park

Arabian Business

Qiddiya Investment Company (QIC) announced that it had awarded a SAR2.8bn ($750mn) contract to build Saudi Arabia’s first water theme park. The park will also be the region’s largest. The contract was awarded to ALEC Saudi Arabia Engineering and Contracting and El Seif Engineering Contracting, a joint venture between the two companies. The park is set to cover some 252,000 square metres of land, and will feature 22 rides and attractions. It will be subdivided into nine different zones inspired by native animals that inhabit the area around Qiddiya: the…

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