The proposal of Vegetecture is to consider the plants as primary material of construction, not an embellishment but the core built. To this there are accomplishments in bamboo, clay and straw. Vegetecture is a new design approach that considers the green as what constitutes the perfect environment for the life of man. The resulting city brings inside the forest, not building other gardens, but removing the border space of nature and the built space. In architecture the application of high green technology has proven to be a valuable and effective tool for the construction of new cities to ecological orientation. (From Vegetecture, by Maurizio Corrado, Sistemi Editoriali Esselibri Simone, Italy2011)
To see example of Vegetecture, take a look to the work of Emilio Ambasz, Marcel Kalberer, Bureau Baubotanik, Patrick Dougherty....
Cigarette: Northern slang for a cigarette, used oft by mashed up mancunian ravers becasue of the resemblance of a hot(electric)stove to the end of a lit cigarette. Originated circa 1991 in the early halcyon days of the rave culture; we speculate during a drug fuelled hallucination by said manc.
'fuck me noel, i am bolloxed, is that a ciggy in your mouth, or the stove from me 'nans kitchen'/
General use: 'Give us a stove you cunt'
A hardo is a person who tries extremely hard at everything. Most times a hardo will try very hard at things that do not require excessive effort. For example, sports practices, gym class, etc.
Wow did you see Jack at practice today? What a hardo!