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Sainsbury’s has struck a £1.3billion deal to buy Argos owner Home Retail Group that will see it close around 200 shops across BritainSainsbury’s boss Mike Coupe said the takeover will create the ‘largest non-food’ retailer in the country with more than 2000 shops selling 100,000 non-food products with more than 25 million customers.Argos’ online and mail-order customers will also be able to click ’n’ collect to buy their kettles and bikes from Sainsbury’s stores.Sainsbury’s has 600 supermarkets and 750 convenience stores while there are more than 800 Argos stores. Argos has already been trialling outlets in Sainsbury’s supermarkets and the deal will see more concessions open in the grocer.Mr Coupe described the takeover as baking a bigger cake to create a better and larger business for customers. The deal will mean shoppers will be able to buy Argos products in Sainsbury’s shops and the supermarket’s customers will have access to Argos’ four-hour time slots for home deliveriesHowever one investment manager described it as two struggling retailers ‘propping each other up.’Sainsbury’s first made an offer in November that was rejected, and it was fourth time lucky yesterday when its increased offer was finally accepted.

Sainsbury’s, like other supermarkets, has seen its market share eroded by discount retailers such as Lidl and Aldi, the rise of online shopping and the shift to people shopping little and often rather than large weekly shops. sick light curtains c4000 selectArgos has also been struggling in the face of competition from the likes of Amazon.The deal has raised fears it will mean struggling High Streets are hit with even more empty shops.argos lima ring top curtainsMany of the leases of Argos’ stores are up for renewal in the next five years and between 150 and 200 shops could be closed and moved into a nearby Sainsbury’s.kim's curtains waxhawOne shopping centre landlord, Mark Robinson, joint-founder of property company Ellandi which owns more than 20 shopping centres, said: ‘Argos/Sainsbury going through is not great for many town centres across the country.

However it MIGHT create world class omni-channel champion IF executed perfectly.’Sainsbury’s trumpeted the clever way it had financed the deal.Although the Sainsbury’s transaction values Home Retail at £1.3billion, Sainsbury’s claims it is actually buying Argos for a mere £250million. Many of the leases of Argos’ stores are up for renewal in the next five years and between 150 and 200 shops could be closed and moved into a nearby Sainsbury’sThe deal sees it inherit a £600million Argos loan book – money owed to Argos. It will also benefit from the £250million of cash at Home Retail from the sale of Homebase - last month it sold the Homebase chain for £340million to Australia’s Wesfarmers.The deal is not quite sealed – the two companies have agreed a three-week extension on yesterday’s takeover deadline in order to complete the due diligence on the offer.Home Retail shareholders will own 12percent of Sainsbury’s when the deal goes through.Sainsbury’s said it will save £120 million through ‘synergies’, including £60million from relocating Argos stores.

However it will also lead to around £280million in extra costs.Sainsbury’s shares rose 5.9p to 250.5p and Home Retail Group advanced 0.1p to 153p.FIND THE PERFECT GIFT Gifting made easy - use the Gift Finder for gift options she will love. Name (A - Z) Name (Z - A) Price (High - Low) Price (Low - High) 79 items, scroll to loadThis article, written by Svetlana Kondratyeva and translated by Olga Baltsatu for Strelka Magazine, examines the most interesting cases of the role of culture in sustainable urban development based on the UNESCO report.UNESCO published the Global Report on Culture for Sustainable Urban Development in the fall of 2016. Two UN events stimulated its creation: a document entitled Transforming our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which emphasizes seventeen global goals for future international collaboration, was signed in September of 2015 at the Summit in New York. Habitat III, the conference held once in twenty years and dedicated to housing and sustainable urban development, took place in Ecuador in October of 2016.

The question of culture’s role in urban development, and what problems it can solve, was raised at both events. To answer it, UNESCO summarized global experience and included successful cases of landscaping, cultural politics, events, and initiatives from different corners of the world in the report. Since 2009, Mario Carvajal has captured amazing panoramic photographs from his hometown in Colombia as well as top destination spots around the globe. He has climbed the Empire State Building in New York and Colpatria Tower in Bogota, Colombia. Carvajal has captured the geographical beauty of Iceland as well as the intensity of Paris at night. As Carvajal mentioned in an interview with ArchDaily, images in 360 degrees "allow the viewer to dive into an attractive and interesting 'virtual world' to experience immersive sensations". Of course, with the new surge in popularity these types of pictures have experienced with the hardware becoming more readily available and these images being shared more and more every day through Facebook, Carvajal's work reaches new levels, allowing thousands of people to see the world from above. 

Below, we invite you to see his best shots of iconic buildings and landscapes around the world. For a complete experience, we recommend using Google Cardboard. EDU -Empresa de Desarrollo Urbano de Medellín Felipe Bernal Henao, Javier Castañeda Acero , Alejandro Restrepo Montoya Authors of the Project WIRED Magazine has created a list of Eight Cities That Will Show You What The Future Will Look Like in the latest edition of their design issue. In the relatively short span of time that humans have been planning cities, more and more decisions have been made that have shaped the path of new technologies and methods that will make cities better. Such projects—like new streetlights, bicycle infrastructure, and traffic-sensitive museums—highlight some of these advances in the urban lifestyle."The cities of tomorrow might still self-assemble haltingly, but done right, the process won’t be accidental. A city shouldn’t just happen anymore. Every block, every building, every brick represents innumerable decisions.

Decide well, and cities are magic," writes Wired author Adam Rogers. Read on after the break to see how 8 different cities from around the world are implementing innovative projects. PLASMA NODO, Llano Arquitectos Santiago Bohórquez, Courtesy of PLASMA NODO With a high-density population and a history of internal armed conflict, the city of Medellín in Colombia lacked substantial public space, but had an overwhelming amount of industrial infrastructure in place. But as profiled by The Architectural Review, recently architects and urban planners of the EPM group saw this imbalance as an opportunity, and so in the uninhabited patches of land surrounding over one hundred fenced industrial lots, the UVA or Unidades de Vida Articulada (Units of Articulated Life) program was born. Including initiatives to build public classrooms, launderettes and cafés, the UVA projects were conceived together with the local population through a series of workshops, where every resident was invited to express their vision for the new public square through writing and drawing.

Medellín, existing at the convergence of several hills, provides a wide variety of unique landscapes for architects to experiment on - and through the UVA projects, EPM Group demonstrates how architecture can empower a community from the first day of design. Read more about how this project will continue to instigate positive change at The Architectural Review. FP arquitectura, Mauricio Montoya Alejandro Arango, Courtesy of FP Oficina de Arquitectura, Fundación Argos This article originally appeared on Arup Connect as “Ask Arup: Silty Sand Solutions.”Architect Juan Esteban Correa Elejalde’s client tasked him with designing an off-the-grid getaway for a rural site near Medellín, Colombia. After completing the initial design concept, Correa Elejalde ordered a soil study of the client’s land.Unfortunately, the results showed the site to be “pretty much a pool,” he said; the high water table and thick layers of loose soil would provide little capacity to support heavy objects above.