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China's Three Gorges reservoir faces test as water level breaks records



Flood waters are sluiced with the water outflux monitored at 40,000 cubic meters per second at Three Gorges Dam in Yichang, central China's Hubei Province, July 20, 2010. China's Three Gorges Dam project on the Yangtze River stood its biggest flood-control test at 8 a.m. Tuesday since completion, as the flow on the river's upper reaches topped 70,000 cubic meters a second. All ferry services were halted at the Three Gorges Dam on Monday, and would be resumed after the influx decreased to 45,000 cubic meters per second.





BEIJING/YICHANG, July 23 -- A continuous deluge along the swollen Yangtze River has pushed the water level of China's Three Gorges reservoir to its peak this year on Friday and it may rise further, testing the country's mega water control system built to tame the worst floods.
The water level rose to 158.86 meters at 10 a.m. Friday, about 13.86 meters above the reservoir's water-releasing level, said engineers of the reservoir, located in Yichang City, central Hubei Province.



As of 2 p.m. Friday, the water level dropped to 158.83 meters and has remained largely stable since. The maximum capacity of the multibillion dollar reservoir is 175 meters. On Tuesday flood waters gushed into the reservoir 70,000 cubic meters per second -- the greatest velocity since it was built. The flow reduced to 34,000 cubic meters per second at 2 p.m. Friday.

The reservoir continued to release water at a speed of 40,000 cubic meters per second.

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'oyes' by dutch firm Hofman dujardin architects has been created for the charity project in cape town organized by chair manufacturer dietiker and AIT magazine. one hundred architecture and interior design offices across Europe were selected to redesign the ‘ono’ chair produced by the company. The newly designed chairs will be exhibited in the context of a road show in the AIT-architecture salons hamburg, Munich, north Rhine-Westphalia, Stuttgart and Rotterdam. the main auction of the chairs will take place in spring 2010. the proceeds generated from this auction will support the langa township in cape town, south Africa.





For their proposal the chair is a model of a building with a height of 760m, an urban icon for cape town. while the 'ono' chair can be used by a maximum of two people, the 'oyes' chair with a surface of 800.000m2 can host about 50.000 people. four slim feet of 25x30m will touch the city in the business district and the harbor. these four new locations will be connected through identical towers with a height of 460m. each foot will intervene in the existing urban fabric, connecting people from different areas.







The 800.000m2 building will act as a social housing icon. inhabitants of the langa township can move to the city centre. compact apartments are created in the slim feet of 25 x 30m with a height of 460m. the level of the seat becomes an open space of 450 x 450m suitable for a public park and soccer fields overlooking the ocean. the back support of the chair will be filled with apartments until a height of 760m. in between there are shops, offices, sport facilities, cinema, bars, restaurants etc. the 'oyes' chair becomes the iconic symbol of charity, the second tallest building of the world is the shelter of the homeless people of the townships. high-rise for the poor on the south point of the african continent with a view at the Atlantic ocean.