The Colosseum Viz: Bucharest, Romania by Uniform

Uniform have recently finished a short film on behalf of the Romanian real estate company Nova Imobiliare, the investment group behind The Colosseum project in Bucharest, Romania.

Uniform’s role was to develop a film that gave potential occupiers and customers a clear vision for this spectacular destination. The film had to create a ‘real experience’, telling the story of how the variety of infrastructure and spaces linked together, resulting in a film that provides a fantastic insight into this ‘colossus’ project and how it will look when it’s finished.

The Colosseum from Uniform on Vimeo.

Now visualising retail centres is not the easiest of jobs as all the new build shopping centres tend to have a similar look throughout the world. Notable here is the ‘British Museum’ style roof with hints of Vegas thrown into the standard retail blender. The project comprises of a 54 hectre site and includes 200,000m2 of mixed-use development, containing retail, restaurants, leisure facilities and a hotel. The scheme will be Central and Eastern Europe’s largest commercial development with a total value of € 350 million. We like Uniform’s take on the pitch and it looks like Romania is about to have the opportunity for substantial retail therapy.

This Is the Apocalyptic Storm Hitting the US Right Now

Get ready, because the snowpocalypse is back. This snow storm system is huge. NASA Goddard has released this amazing image, showing how it looks from space—bloody scary, that’s how.

The image was captured by the GOES-13 satellite, operated by NOAA. In this graphic, the red and pink areas is where the most intense action is. They say that this “massive winter storm affecting a large portion of great plains and midwest” is just getting worse:

A large swath of blizzard warnings, winter storm warnings, freezing rain advisories, winter weather advisories and winter storm watches are in effect, stretching from New Mexico and the Southern Plains northeastward through the Midwest and into the upper Mid-Atlantic and New England.

According to NOAA, the storm will hit really hard over Texas tonight, “and intensify rapidly as it moves northeast into the Ohio Valley Tuesday night and Wednesday, then eventually re-form off the mid-Atlantic or New England coast late Wednesday.”

In other words: Expect extreme travel disruption and lots of snow zombies over the next 48 hours.

Cancel or Rebook Your Flight for Free While the Massive Midwest Storm Looms

Want to get caught in an airport during a “multi-day, multi-region, potentially historic and destructive winter storm“? Thought so. Luckily, airlines are being extraordinarily lenient right now, and you can likely cancel or rebook for free.

Image via The Weather Channel.

More than 2,100 miles of the country may see a foot or more of snow this week, and as of last night, at least 3,000 flights had been canceled across the U.S. in preparation. Luckily, The Consumerist blog offers links to nearly every major airline’s storm-specific policy page. Southwest Airlines, for example, is allowing many customers to fly standby on any flight, up to 14 days from their original departure, while Delta is offering free re-books and delayed departure for those in any of about 20 cities.

If you had travel plans for this week, tell us what you’re doing, and how your carriers are treating you, in the comments.