Xtreme Design UK

Design, Architecture, Interiors, CAD, Engineering, Structural, BIM, MEP

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Struggling To Think of Anything More #Beautiful #Stunning #ManMade #Art #Marble #Sculpture #GiovanniStrazza

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@kelvmackenzie Design, detail, fitment & building control is fundamental & critical. Product issues are secondary. Fire control measures in UK construction has seriously declined due to self-cert. Be surprised if this ever gets exposed has its not simple, sexy & doesn’t lead to a pot of cash.

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

The most astonishingly lifelike sculptures ever produced - a thread 🧵

1. “David”, marble - Michelangelo (1504)

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Freddie's Fight to #KickCancersButt
My son Louie’s buddy ‘Freddie’ (both born on the same day) & his beautiful family are in need of support
Please, Read, Support & Share
https://t.co/JwCkwUGcP0
#gosh
#StandUpToCancer  #CancerAwareness #CancerResearch #CancerSupport

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@Carpervert @booms81 What is it you’re considering Jonny? We have designed, detailed & procured bespoke containers, purpose built structures & high-end homes.

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@booms81 @Carpervert Very much #This 👆

[Architecture & Tradition @archi_tradition]

Alonnisos, Greece 🇬🇷

[Tudor for architecture🇬🇧 @ArchitectureTud]

Brompton, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧

[Architecture & Tradition @archi_tradition]

Florence, Italy 🇮🇹

[🏛Architectolder @Architectolder]

I never knew how beautiful England was until I started this Architecture account.

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#oops

[🌻 Fertilizer Finder 🌻 @ManiacMagic1]

Meanwhile in Russia ...

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Still All Time Fav Image 👌

What’s yours?

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🤔 Why don’t we see this level of transparent scrutiny into @GOVUK spending? 💰💰💰

[Rep. Summer Lee @RepSummerLee]

Me: How much does the military spend on Viagra each year?

Director of Defense Contracts: I don’t have that figured out.

Me: about $41.6 million.

Do you know how many bridges in my District of Pittsburgh could be repaired with that amount?

[Xtreme Design UK @XtremeDesign_UK]

Who recognises this in the 🇬🇧 market? We definitely do!

[Scott Holmes @Scott_Holmes]

I’m encountering a very strange phenomenon at work. We’ve hired 3 engineers claiming to have done tons of work with lots of things. None of them have any hands on experience. They’re declaring themselves armchair engineers. Wtf?

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#Wow!, Just Wow! 🤯

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

This is possibly the most insane TV appearance I have ever been involved in. I dare anyone to watch this and tell me these people should be in charge of our energy policy.

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🔴🟡🟢🔵 Who understands?
#Sinclair #ZXSpectrum 🫶
#AppleBeforeApple

[GamesYouLoved @gamesyouloved]

THE ZX SPECTRUM MOVIE
10 Days to go: https://t.co/ylWVL9JEms

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[marco @crm1096]

Cariatide de la maison Chappaz construite en 1868 à Béziers, réalisée par Jean-Antoine Injalbert, sculpteur nourri de mythologie qui a obtenu le Grand Prix de Rome en 1874.

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“What’s gone wrong with the world?” you may ask… #Consumption - The unneeded wanton consumption of #unnecessary & #unsustainable junk

What is #ESSENTIAL? & Just how much stuff do you #NEED?

Take #responsibility for your #global #footprint

[我不姓阿 @muren_gang]

跟她比起来，我像个野人😁

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Not #unremakable - #Quality #Efficiency & #Performance

[Calum E. Douglas FRAeS @CalumDouglas1]

Nobody ever writes about such dull things as "bearings" and "spark plugs" in military aviation history. After all, such things are unremarkable service items, which everyone had.

This is very much what you`d think until you talk to engine people, who will tell you that in its own way, every single bit of the engine is critical.

The technical trade-offs and ebb-and-flow of air superiority between the Allies in Germany is reflected in both:

Macro (raw material resources, planning & governance)

but also the

Micro (raw materials resources, planning & governance).🧐🤣

Or to put it another way, we can see the major patterns of failure equally easily in any domain of the conflict.

We can say, we needed 100 Octane fuel, in truly vast volumes to win WW2, and we can also say, if you don't have Nickel, Platinum and Iridium for your spark plugs you cannot win WW2.

Neither stipulation is wrong, although many will bristle with incredulity at the second statement.

It is a matter of looking at technology holistically.

WW2 in Western Europe was primarily determined by the Air War, which is to say, you need a ground force to do the winning, but if you lack total air superiority, neither ground or sea forces can complete this action alone.

"Air Superiority" is multi faceted, and as James Allison at the helm of Mercedes AMG F1 (who wrote the forward to my book after attending a presentation I gave at the Mercedes F1 team HQ) will tell you, to win you basically have to do EVERYTHING very well. One thing you must certainly do well at to win, is ensure your fighter & bomber aircraft can fly as fast and reliably as possible.

To give an example, in 1939 the Spitfire flew with about 6 pounds/sq inches of supercharger boost, by 1945 it was 25 pounds, and flew nearly 100mph faster despite being twice the weight.

All this was facilitated by gigantic leaps in engine power, none of which can happen without spark plugs that do not overheat. Huge development efforts are needed to stop this happening (which destroys the engine and limits the supercharger boost which can be applied).

Thanks to large supplies of Nickel, Platinum and Iridium, Allied spark plugs managed to advance at a rate where they allowed the Rolls-Royce & Packard Merlin to reach boost levels which were limited by other factors (like bearings, which also had to be drastically improved from 1940 to 1945 with Silver, Indium and Tin).

Germany had tiny Tin reserves, no Indium, almost no Silver, no Nickel, no Iridium and almost zero Platinum.

These problems (macro problems, strategic reserves) influenced the micro just as critically. A spark plug which works properly can be the difference between and engine running at +6lbs boost to +25lbs boost. Or to put it another way, this tiny, ostensibly uninteresting little cylinder is entirely capable of being the only thing between having 1000 and 2000bhp in your fighters, which is a difference of far more than is required to illustrate the chasm between an air force failing, and one possessing aircraft engine performance of a level that would be described as almost insurmountably overwhelming.

Nearly every detail of the engine must be developed to this level to facilitate that, and every component is trying desperately to fail.

Its very easy to find WW2 perplexing, how did a nation filled with prodigious brilliance in the sciences fail? In truth German engineers had almost no chance, because (quoting James Allison's foreword):

"I have felt the inescapable, clockwork certainty of failure that emerges when the foundations of learning or governance are not in place and I have known the deep seated satisfaction of placing my shoulder to the wheel of a well-run team, knowing that my sweat, combined with that of hundreds of others, will steadily advance our cause."