tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25274895978587814572024-03-13T01:15:26.736-07:0021st Century Architecture<b>Envisioning Sustainable Biomorphic Buildings ...</b><br><br>
21stArch.com explores curvaceous buildings, green architecture, flowing, eco-friendly homes, schools and work spaces. If 20th Century was penile, angular architecture, 21st will be more feminine, sustainable and environmentally integrated. High quality architectural renderings, 3d visualizations.Joe Trainorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03963030295031426970noreply@blogger.comBlogger113125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2527489597858781457.post-38002449367737338632014-05-06T08:12:00.001-07:002014-05-07T07:51:09.139-07:00Luxury Condominium Visualization Guide for Developers<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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Joseph E Trainor, DoHere Digital Technology Inc (www.DHrendering.com)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In
the Canadian province where our architectural visualization firm is
located, Ontario, land prices are soaring, land availability is
diminishing and the provincial government has brought in legislation
designed to preserve farmland and aquifers while boosting residential
intensification along main transportation arteries. In light of these
trends, many builders here are making the transition from developing
single-family homes on large plots of land to a mix of product
including detached homes, townhomes and condominiums. This means that
some builders who previously utilized hand-drawn renderings are now
seeking computerized, digital illustrations. Developers in the new
environment need a visualization package that can help them get
approvals during early stages and then move units fast at firm
prices. By choosing a top-shelf rendering company, your project will
be showcased to the public in its best possible light, and will be
perceived as a solid investment.</span></span></div>
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in mind there can be a range of options available, from freelancers
all the way up to advertising agencies. One way to assess the quality
of a company is to look at any windows / glass in their work. If it's
all gray, the images evoke a prison feel. If there's a systematic
pattern of lighting in the windows, it can look stiff and contrived.
Higher end visualizers will have glass surfaces reflecting the world
around the property, and the degree of transparent / translucent /
opaque light flows depend on the time of day chosen.</span></span></div>
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Rise </b>- With custom houses and duplexes, a perspective shot at
dusk may be enough to get the job done. These show the home at a time
someone would be arriving after work, with light emanating from
within, looking all warm and inviting. For a new subdivision, each
model usually gets a rendering for both A and B elevations. If a
feature shot is desired, it can be either an aerial, or if it is a
gated or branded community, then a shot of the stone wall and sign
with flowers and landscaping.</span></span></div>
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– Generally require one block perspective for each style offered,
plus either an aerial overall view, or a “view from street” shot.
A streetscape view can show community and family life, whereas an
aerial shot shows the development in setting.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Mid-rise
/ High-rise Condos</b> - Moving into condo development presents a set
of new challenges. A typical condo package will be three exterior
views (one aerial, two eye-level), two to five features / amenity
shots (eg Lobby, Fitness, Party, Pool, Terrace), plus three to four
suite interiors (Living, Kitchen / Dining, Master Bedroom, Bathroom).
The price per rendering can depend on size, elevations and detailing,
and a package of ten to twelve visualizations for a small to mid-size
new condominium development will usually suffice, with an
architectural animation added for larger condo towers / multi-tower
projects.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Luxury
Condominiums</b> – At the higher end of the market, there is a
greater emphasis on amenities and an exclusive lifestyle. The
rendering package may not be much larger than for a regular
condominium, however, to really showcase the property, indoor and
outdoor animation may be required. These may be a “fly-around”
exterior video and a “walk-thru / walk-through” interior animation, or one
longer architectural video highlighting the building's quality
features, inside and out. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">High quality architectural animations are
most efficiently produced by the same company that is doing the
interior and exterior renderings, as each of these can be spectacular
key frames in the video, leading to much higher production values
than your typical condo animation. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Process
</b>– At DoHere Digital Technology (www.DHrendering.com) we utilize
3 stages to produce high quality hyper-realistic (eg better than
photo) imagery, whether animation or stills. For renderings, our
client marks an approximate camera angle onto a Site Plan with a V
(the point is camera location, the “V” is what the camera sees)
and provides CAD files (we prefer AutoCAD 3D, 2010 or earlier).
During Stage One, we produce several views of the model from close to
the camera angle suggested. Our client chooses one of the views and
then marks up the model image with changes, if any. Stage Two
involves materials and finishes and basic lighting and landscaping.
Stage Three is artwork and ambience, including people, cars, birds,
clouds, lighting and shading. By working together with us during this
3-stage process, our clients provide input throughout and then
receive the images they need for their businesses to succeed.</span></span><br />
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architectural animations, we start with a Storyboard / Camera Path,
then move to Key Test Frames, then to full production.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
way to producing stunning visuals starts with preparedness. First,
have the design completed before you hire a company to visualize it.
Changing the designs during production of a visual will increase
timelines and costs. Second, feel free to ask questions and consult
with your visualization partner, as the “back and forth” helps
the renderers fully understand the project and the purpose of the
imagery.</span></span></div>
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strong visualization company can help you pre-sell your units to
discerning buyers, and bring your projects to life! Please call today!</span></span></div>
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<span id="yiv8483683584yui_3_13_0_1_1396486128946_5084"><span class="yiv8483683584yui_3_13_0_1_1396481167623_3147 yiv8483683584yui_3_13_0_1_1396486128946_3047 yiv8483683584yui_3_13_0_1_1397050194697_6018 yiv8483683584yui_3_13_0_1_1397243050506_3815 yiv8483683584yui_3_13_0_1_1397582374430_3008 yiv8483683584yui_3_13_0_1_1397582374430_7678 yui_3_13_0_1_1397593305773_3053" id="yiv8483683584yui_3_13_0_6_1396458981723_40" style="line-height: 12.799999237060547px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I first learned of the theory that the Chinese had visited North America (and set up a settlement on Cape Breton) almost a century before Columbus, I was a bit skeptical. The further I get into it, the more real it seems. This image below is of a model of one of Zheng He's ships, with Columbus' Santa Maria alongside as a comparison. That differential alone should make one believe it is possible that the Chinese lived in North America before Europeans did.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By <span id="yiv8483683584yui_3_13_0_1_1396458981723_5092">the edge of the Atlantic Ocean in northern Nova Scotia, Canada, there is a peninsula on Cape Breton Island named Cape Dauphin. The cape is centred by Glooscap Mountain (aka Kelly's Mountain or Kluscap Mountain) and hosts the ruins of a settlement deemed by architect, author and amateur historian Paul Chiasson as a Chinese town from the early 1400s Ming Dynasty, which we will refer to as Fort Kluscap in this article. To learn more about Mr. Chiasson's work, visit his website www.IslandofSevenCities.com or read his book, </span><span id="yiv8483683584yui_3_13_0_6_1396401182722_72" style="font-style: italic;">Island of Seven Cities, where the Chinese settled when they discovered North America</span>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Though the most likely dating for establishment of Fort Kluscap is the 1420s or 1430s via Zheng He or one of his commanders, it is also quite conceivable that Kublai Khan's Yuan Dynasty fleet had reached Nova Scotia via the northern route that was later named the Northwest Passage. The Earth was a lot hotter before the mid-1500s, and that route could explain why the Mi'kMaq people claim the visitors said they were from the "far side of the North Pole" and also reveal how China was able to create a world map in 1418:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If the settlement pre-dates the voyages of Zheng He and Wen Zhou, then they still may have been the first Chinese to access it via the southern, Cape of Good Hope approach. A third potential route would be via circumnavigating South America and sailing north through the Caribbean.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the late 1500s, pirate and royal lackie Martin Frobisher identified a boatload of "Chinese sailors" along the coast of Baffin island, and this was already a few decades into the Little Ice Age (circa 1550-1850), which meant the Summer window for navigation was getting smaller and smaller. He may have seen one of the final boats of the evacuation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Putting aside your skepticism for a moment, if the walled town of Fort Kluscap was built by architects and designers, what does the shape look like to you? <span id="yiv8483683584yui_3_13_0_1_1396401182722_6138">Viewed from the ridge above, standing on top of the mountain, looking downhill and south toward the water, is it a map of China? When one is standing on the mountain ridge above the settlement, </span><span id="yiv8483683584yui_3_13_0_6_1396486128946_73">the design would look a lot like a map of Yuan or Ming Dynasty:</span></span></div>
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<span id="yiv8483683584yui_3_13_0_6_1396401182722_110"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whether you look at maps of Ming Dynasty China, or modern China, the walls of the town would make a reasonable facsimile of their nation, and please remember this town was designed by the planet's premier mapmakers. If Fort Kluscap was designed to resemble a map of China, that could have two implications. One, it would be a quick way to communicate if under attack ("enemy forces massing north of Beijing") and also, if visible from sea level, could be a safety sign / symbol for Chinese sailors.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If we can surmise the northern route (through the Bering Strait, across the top of North America, then south ward along the coast of Baffin Island) was clear by the quality of the northern land mass depicted in the 1418 Ming Dynasty map, we know the planet had been fully explored by China's Yuan Dynasty long before the treasure fleets sailed under Zheng He and his commanders. Did Yuan Dynasty explorers / mapmakers found the settlement here because of the proximity to Sydney mines, or did Zheng He's fleets arrive here after sailing on Atlantic Ocean currents? Or did both occur?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This 1953 aerial clearly shows the outline of the Chinese fort, revealed after a 1952 fire burned away the forest cover. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Within the baby-shaped Fort Kluscap, there may be evidence of an earlier settlement, a smaller construction still visible (green markup). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The layout design looks similar to that of the Ming Dynasty Tombs. Have a look at these wonderful graphics:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Xiaoling Tomb (Nanjing), above, has a design that evokes the overall feel of Fort Kluscap.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now, look back up at the Cape Dauphin aerial. See the circle at the top right? If the original settlement (green markup) was built off the southwest edge of the circle, the landscape architecture would be almost identical to that of a major Thirteen Ming Dynasty Tombs entrance, which are all based on four quite similar designs. It may also indicate that the upper part of "the baby's" head would include tombs or at minimum be burial grounds for the exalted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Note the Yongling Tomb above, relative to the green marked-up area further up in the Cape Dauphin aerial image. Now look at the graphic below and see that the first two designs, Xiaoling and Changling, both point north, as does the far right design, Dingling. Note that the third design is Yongling, and it points northeast, the same direction as the Fort Kluscap ruins. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That inner gate on the inner wall serves as the "eye" or centerpiece of the design (dark red line below), and really accentuates the shape of a newborn baby or toddler, perhaps signifying to the skies the nature of sentient beings on our planet: A second inner wall is visible below the gate wall and to the left of the town site, extending north approximately where our "baby's" mouth (and/or neckline) would be:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Note the red marking at top indicates the main gate and an interior wall, while the dotted line below may be another interior wall. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The above aerial photo from 1953 was taken a year after the 1952 fire which destroyed the tree cover and revealed the walls of the town. Those inclined to discredit the idea there was anything here claim that this is a firebreak built after the 1952 fire. I challenge anyone promoting this theory to google "how to build a forest firebreak" or visit wikipedia. It's all about creating a wide enough gap that flames won't jump, so a stone wall is never even considered for such an application.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With the walls in place, how would it have been viewed from the water? Could you see the town as an outline of a sleeping baby with the top of his head to the east (dawn, rising Sun) and his face to the south, both pointing to open water? Would the inner gate have been visible from afar, or only from above? It would depend on the topographical elevations, and the tree cover, and the height of the walls. If the fortified town was not intended to be hidden, the intricate design could have easily been portrayed by ensuring the southern walls were a bit shorter or on lower elevations than the northern and side walls. Is it an aerial design intended for stellar observers, or was it a nautical, "welcome home" symbol for sailors weary after long journeys? The view from sea level would tell the story of whether the town was stealthily situated or expressively designed, or both.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If viewing from a lower height makes the "baby" appear elongated and more like the shape of a grown man, then the Glooscap legend may have its roots in Fort Kluscap's unique design.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you look at Cape Dauphin through Google satellite view today, you can see the site has become overgrown again, like in 1931. Outlines of the settlement can still be seen, if you know where to look.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<span class="yiv8483683584yui_3_13_0_1_1396458981723_5017 yiv8483683584yui_3_13_0_1_1396481167623_3180 yiv8483683584yui_3_13_0_1_1396486128946_3080" id="yiv8483683584yui_3_13_0_1_1396401182722_4281" style="color: #545454; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Glooscap lay on his back</span><span class="yiv8483683584yui_3_13_0_1_1396458981723_5018 yiv8483683584yui_3_13_0_1_1396481167623_3181 yiv8483683584yui_3_13_0_1_1396486128946_3081" id="yiv8483683584yui_3_13_0_1_1396401182722_3829" style="color: #545454; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">, with arms outstretched and </span><span class="yiv8483683584yui_3_13_0_1_1396458981723_5019 yiv8483683584yui_3_13_0_1_1396481167623_3182 yiv8483683584yui_3_13_0_1_1396486128946_3082" id="yiv8483683584yui_3_13_0_1_1396401182722_3828" style="color: #545454; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">his head toward</span><span class="yiv8483683584yui_3_13_0_1_1396458981723_5020 yiv8483683584yui_3_13_0_1_1396481167623_3183 yiv8483683584yui_3_13_0_1_1396486128946_3083" id="yiv8483683584yui_3_13_0_6_1396401182722_29" style="color: #545454; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><span id="yiv8483683584yui_3_13_0_6_1396401182722_41" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> the rising sun</span>, for 490 days and nights</span><span id="yiv8483683584yui_3_13_0_6_1396401182722_37">"</span></span></div>
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<span class="yiv8483683584yui_3_13_0_1_1397050194697_6090 yiv8483683584yui_3_13_0_1_1397243050506_3887 yiv8483683584yui_3_13_0_1_1397582374430_3084 yiv8483683584yui_3_13_0_1_1397582374430_7754 yui_3_13_0_1_1397593305773_3131" id="yiv8483683584yui_3_13_0_6_1396401182722_52"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Is it possible the Mi'kmaq legend is connected to the hillside town? There has to be a reason why it is sacred ground, and known as Kluscap Mountain or Glooscap Mountain to the aboriginal Mi'kmaq people who live in the area. </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Biblical personas have turned out to be based on actual humans (www.domainofman.com), so why not New World legends? Did the magnificent giant Zheng He, commander of the largest fleet in the history of the world, personally visit or even live on Glooscap Mountain? </span></div>
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Trainor works for DoHere Digital (<a href="http://www.dhrendering.com/">www.DHrendering.com</a>)
and is a freelance writer, amateur hockey historian and student of
standardbred horse breeding. Joe is also a perspiring songwriter and
lover of inspiring architecture. His fist novel, Ari Loves Salome,
was published in 2012.</span></span><br /><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><br /></span></span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ari-Loves-Salome-Joseph-Trainor/dp/1482396084"><span style="color: #336699;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Ari
Loves Salome by Joseph Trainor, at Amazon.com</span></span></span></a>
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Joe Trainorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03963030295031426970noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2527489597858781457.post-14919110832508705322013-03-21T11:24:00.002-07:002013-03-21T11:24:26.802-07:00Green community in Waterloo turning heads<h2 style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; color: black; font: 25px/1.2 Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
Victoria Common project highlights urbanism in Kitchener-Waterloo</h2>
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In the not-so-distant past, Kitchener was known as a blue-collar town, home to large factories that produced goods such as meat and shoes.</div>
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Now, it’s a city of “dreamers and doers,” as a glossy brochure from the economic development department tells it.</div>
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The city has successfully weathered a post-industrial transition to become a centre for innovation, home to tech companies such as BlackBerry, Google and Desire2Learn. It’s also a hotbed for start-up companies and the site of insurance, manufacturing and finance business clusters.</div>
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Along with that business transition, residential innovation is also taking place in the city, including a new project on a formerly derelict industrial site at St. Leger and Louisa Sts., surrounded by a residential neighbourhood.</div>
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Victoria Common by Queensgate Developments and Losani Homes will rise on a site that formerly housed a tannery and a panel veneer factory, and then sat vacant for two decades. The property had to be extensively remediated, with 90,000 cubic metres of contaminated soil removed and replaced.</div>
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And although the province’s Greenbelt legislation has been spurring redevelopment of brownfields in the GTA, “it’s especially forward thinking for a municipality like Waterloo Region,” says Tim Ingold, sales manager for Victoria Common.</div>
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When it’s complete, there will be 220 townhouses and 640 condominiums on the 16-acre site. The condo buildings, built by Queensgate, will range from four to 12 storeys. Losani will build the townhouses. The project will take about a decade to build out.</div>
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Victoria Common is intended as a pedestrian-friendly community, with downtown, shopping, cultural amenities, parks and transit all within walking distance.</div>
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At the heart of the development will be the Piazza, an urban park that will feature a clock tower, concert podium, benches, café-style seating and a splash pad that will convert to a skating rink in winter.</div>
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It’s the largest master-planned community in Waterloo Region. Phase I sales opened in November with the Claridge, a four-storey condo with 77 suites.</div>
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It will be one of the most advanced green communities in Canada, with one of the largest geothermal systems in Ontario providing heating and cooling for the entire community. The vertical geo-exchange system will bore holes deep into the ground, and then pump water and glycol through tubes to draw heat in the winter and discharge heat in the summer.</div>
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Rooftop solar panels will feed the community’s electrical system, while reflective membranes on other roof areas will reduce heat gain. Natural gas generators will be used for backup when electricity from the grid is at peak rates, and exhaust heat will be recovered and fed back into the geothermal system.</div>
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Architecture Unfolded has designed the Claridge to reflect aspects of the city’s industrial past in its red brick façade and dark-paned windows.</div>
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“I think that’s a smart design for this neighbourhood,” says Ingold. “It looks like a conversion and it’s on former industrial lands.”</div>
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The condo will also raise the bar for features and finishes: the model suite and common areas are designed by Bryon Patton, the man behind many of the GTA’s most elegant condo interiors, and all units will have 9-foot ceilings.</div>
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The lobby will have the feel of an urban boutique hotel with a contemporary gas fireplace, and amenities include a party room and an exercise room with a view of the outdoor gardens.</div>
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“Our (Kitchener-Waterloo) condo market is still in its infancy and it’s really the land of opportunity right now,” notes Ingold. “A lot of these features are new to this market.”</div>
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He suggests Victoria Common will appeal to anyone from first-time buyers working in the tech sector to older parents with children attending post-secondary education in the area (the University of Waterloo, Wilfrid Laurier University and Conestoga College are all nearby).</div>
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It will also be attractive to investors, since the vacancy rate for rental units in Kitchener-Waterloo is less than 2 per cent.</div>
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With its blend of history and high-tech, a rich cultural scene, a revitalized downtown, healthy job market and affordability, Kitchener is poised to enjoy robust growth. The region of 510,000 people is expected to expand to 750,000 by 2029.</div>
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“Kitchener has the sophistication of Toronto, but a smaller footprint,” says Ingold.</div>
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Prices are much lower than in Toronto, with the Claridge condos about $100,000 less than comparable units in the big city.</div>
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VIA and GO terminals are just a few blocks away from Victoria Common, and a nearby future transit hub will include VIA, GO, Greyhound and Grand River Transit stations. Work is expected to begin in 2014 and be completed in 2017, says Ingold.</div>
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Also accessible are two malls, several parks and the Grand River Hospital. Three blocks away is a cluster of cultural amenities, including Circle in the Square arts centre, a public library and art gallery.</div>
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The downtown revitalization began almost a decade ago, starting with the modern version of its popular farmers’ market, which features goods from local farmers, artists and crafters.</div>
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Four years ago, the city started reconstructing King St., its main thoroughfare, by adding new lighting, widening sidewalks and lowering curbs to make it more pedestrian-friendly and better suited to outdoor events and festivals.</div>
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For all the progress, though, remnants of the past serve as a reminder of Kitchener’s proud industrial past. One symbol is the Kaufman Lofts, a former factory converted to residential lofts that paved the way for Kitchener’s condo market.</div>
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“The owner of the Kaufman shoe factory decided to convert it to condo lofts,” explains Rod Regier, executive director of the city’s economic development department. “It took a leap of faith, despite a study that said there was no market here for residential condos. It sold out immediately.”</div>
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Some Victoria Common residents will likely work nearby at the Tannery, a building that represents the repurposing of the 1850s Lang tannery.</div>
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It has become a dazzling, 340,000-square-foot space for tech firms such as Google, Desire2Learn, and the Communitech hub, which is home to IT, digital media, biomedical and other companies. A daycare centre, fitness centre, music school, pharmacy and restaurants are also located there.</div>
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Roland Rom Colthoff of Toronto’s RAW Design took on the task of re-fashioning the haphazard maze of old tannery buildings into a cohesive, vibrant space, with high ceilings, exposed beams and natural light.</div>
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“There’s nothing like this in North America,” says Regier. “All these start-ups have a cool space to land. With our concept of Start-Up City, we want start-ups to feel this is the best place to grow their companies.”</div>
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He’s also hoping people will see downtown Kitchener as the best place to live and work, and points out there is 5 million square feet of “grossly underutilized land” close to the Tannery that would be ideal for mixed-used development.</div>
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Based on interest in the Tannery, Regier suggests “if this rate of leasing continues, we’d be looking at 10 more of these complexes.”</div>
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Although Kitchener-Waterloo offers the opportunity to live, work and play in the same area, Regier points the city is also “exactly the same distance from Union Station as Barrie, but people don’t seem to realize that.”</div>
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Many Toronto workers see the northern city as a viable commuting option but few have considered Kitchener-Waterloo, he says.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #343b40; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;">Born December 15, 1907 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Oscar Niemayer grew up in a wealthy family without any aspirations toward being an architect, though he started drawing at an early age. "When I was very little," he later remembered, "my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since." He graduated from Barnabitas College in 1923 and soon after wed a woman named Annita Baldo, to whom he would remain married until her death in 2004.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oscar's work presaged and foreshadowed the 21st Century architecture biomorphic style, utilizing the science of biomimicry and the artistic, flowing forms of nature to create profound and iconic new buildings. Niemeyer is most famous for his use of abstract forms and curves that specifically characterize most of his works; he didn’t stick to traditional straight lines, for he is not attracted to straight angles or lines but rather he is captured by ”free-flowing, sensual curves… [like that] on the body of the beloved woman.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Both lauded and criticized for being a <i>"sculptor of monuments"</i>, he has been praised for being a great artist and one of the greatest architects of his generation by his supporters. He claims his architecture was strongly influenced by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Corbusier" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: initial;" title="Le Corbusier">Le Corbusier</a>, but in an interview conducted by Fritz Uteri, he assures that, “didn’t prevent [his] architecture from going in a different direction”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As a young man, Oscar Niemeyer worked for his father at a typography house for a short while before entering the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes, from which he graduated in 1934. Shortly before graduation, he joined the offices of Lúcio Costa, an architect from the Modernist school. Niemeyer worked with Costa on many major buildings between 1936 and 1943, including the design for Brazil's Ministry of Education and Health building, which was part of a collaboration with Bauhaus director <a href="http://www.biography.com/people/le-corbusier-9376609" style="border: none; color: #009edd; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial;">Le Corbusier</a>. Costa and Niemeyer also worked together on Brazil's iconic pavilion in the 1939 New York World's Fair; legendary Mayor <a href="http://www.biography.com/people/fiorello-la-guardia-9371430" style="border: none; color: #009edd; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial;">Fiorello La Guardia</a>was so impressed with Niemeyer's design that he declared him an honorary citizen of New York.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In 1941, Niemeyer launched his solo career by designing a series of buildings in a new suburb of Rio de Janeiro named Pampulha. Here Niemeyer started developing some of his design trademarks, including the heavy use of concrete and a propensity toward curves. "I consciously ignored the highly praised right angle and the rational architecture of T-squares and triangles," he said, "in order to wholeheartedly enter the world of curves and new shapes made possible by the introduction of concrete into the building process."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Niemeyer's status as a rising star in the architectural world was confirmed when he was chosen to represent Brazil as part of the team to design the new headquarters of the United Nations in New York City; the final building was based primarily on Niemeyer's design, with significant elements also taken from his old collaborator Corbusier. Following the completion of the United Nations building in 1953, Niemeyer won an appointment as dean of Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, but he was refused an American work visa by the United States government due to his membership in Brazil's Communist Party.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In 1956, Juscelino Kubitschek, the president of Brazil and a close friend of Niemeyer, came to the architect with a proposal, asking Niemeyer to become the new chief architect of public buildings in the country's new capital, Brasilia, a Modernist civic metropolis being built from scratch in the interior of the country. This is an approach being replicated by Kazakhstan in the modern era, as they create a new capital city, Astana, based on modern architecture by the United Kingdom's Norman Foster and other notables.</span></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: white; color: #343b40; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"This was a liberating time," he said. "It seemed as if a new society was being born, with all the traditional barriers cast aside.... When planning the government buildings for Brasilia I decided they should be characterized by their own structures within the prescribed shapes.... I tried to push the potential of concrete to its limits, </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #343b40; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">especially at the load-bearing points which I wanted to be as delicate as possible so that it would seem as if the palaces barely touched the ground." </span></span></i><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #343b40; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oscar Niemeyer had become interested in Communist ideology as a youth and joined the Brazilian Communist Party in 1945. This became a serious problem in 1964, when the Brazilian military overthrew the government in a coup; Niemeyer, viewed by the army as an individual with dangerously left-wing sympathies, had his office ransacked. Spooked, the architect left the country of his birth a year later, in 1965, resettling in France and mainly designing buildings in Europe and northern Africa. He also turned to designing furniture, which also included his trademark use of sinuous curves. Niemeyer did not return to Brazil until the end of the military dictatorship in 1985.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Semi-retired since the mid-1980s, at the age of 103 Oscar Niemeyer still goes into his office every day to work on designs and oversee projects. Having outlived most of his old friends, intellectual sparring partners and his wife of sixty years though he remarried in 2006, to his longtime assistant Vera Lucia Cabreira — Niemeyer continues to press for a better world through better design. </span></div>
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<i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"It is important that the architect think not only of architecture but of how architecture can solve the problems of the world. The architect's role is to fight for a better world, where he can produce an architecture that serves everyone and not just a group of privileged people."</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Source: Biography.com, wikipedia.org, </span>Joe Trainorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03963030295031426970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2527489597858781457.post-617812254519665282012-11-06T13:08:00.001-08:002012-11-06T13:08:47.183-08:00Center for Sustainable Landscapes seeking a greener nation<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Pittsburgh is home to what is arguably one of the greenest buildings in the country: the Center for Sustainable Landscapes, a recently completed facility for research and educational programs on the campus of the 119-year-old Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens. The center, known as the CSL, is aiming for a trio of certifications. In addition to LEED Platinum, the project is one of 150 taking part in the Sustainable Sites Initiative—a pilot program intended to encourage ecologically sensitive landscape-design practices. Phipps and the CSL team hope to achieve four stars, the highest rating possible. But they have even bigger aspirations. They are targeting Living Building status, a designation with tough-to-satisfy requirements such as net-zero-energy and net-zero-water performance.</span><br />
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The $12 million CSL is just the latest piece of a multiphase green expansion program that began after the nonprofit Phipps Conservatory Inc. signed a 100-year lease, taking over management of the city-owned garden in 1993. “Phipps had the potential to be more successful and become a national tourist attraction,” explains Richard Piacentini, the conservatory's executive director.</div>
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The new management's first capital project was a LEED Silver–certified visitors' reception wing that opened in 2005. The next year it completed two more: a 36,000-square-foot production greenhouse, with a computer-controlled roof venting system, and the Tropical Forest Conservatory, cooled passively with underground earth tubes.</div>
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For the CSL, the garden's most ambitious project to date, designers developed a “synthetic solution” in which the 24,000-square-foot structure and its 2.65-acre site work as one, explains Chris Minnerly, principal at The Design Alliance, the building's architect. The building steps down with the steeply sloping terrain and has its long axis oriented east-west to minimize solar gain. Its thermally robust envelope includes a skin of wood reclaimed from dismantled Pennsylvania barns. Photovoltaic panels, a vertical-axis wind turbine, and geothermal wells will satisfy energy needs.</div>
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The landscape, which was still under construction at press time, will include water features, native plant materials, and rain gardens. The scheme will do more than merely look good, says José Almiñana, a principal at Andropogon, which did the project's landscape architecture. “It will perform.”</div>
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One of the roles the landscape will play is helping the project meet Living Building water requirements. The CSL and its environs will manage stormwater and treat wastewater. It will put these sources to use for toilet flushing and to offset the significant irrigation demands of the conservatory's greenhouses.</div>
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A collection of orchids, for example, will be watered with the outflow from sinks and toilets, but only after the effluent is cleansed in a multistep treatment process that includes a traditional septic system and a constructed wetland containing plants such as cattails and rushes. A solar-distillation system will provide final purification.</div>
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A separate system will collect rainwater from the CSL's green roof and the roofs of neighboring buildings, directing it to a lagoon where hydrophytes (plants that thrive when submerged in water) will help remove the small amount of impurities found in roof runoff. After UV treatment, the water will be allowed to slowly filter into the ground or will be stored in cisterns for various nonpotable uses.</div>
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The lagoon will provide a habitat for fish and insects and, along with the constructed wetland, will transform the normally hidden, workaday processes of stormwater and wastewater management into landscape amenities. These water features are also an example of the “systems thinking” that inspired the project, says Piacentini. At the CSL, “the waste of one process benefits another.”</div>
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Source: <a href="http://archrecord.construction.com/projects/portfolio/2012/10/Center-for-Sustainable-Landscapes-The-Design-Alliance.asp" style="background-color: transparent;">http://archrecord.construction.com/projects/portfolio/2012/10/Center-for-Sustainable-Landscapes-The-Design-Alliance.asp</a></div>
Joe Trainorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03963030295031426970noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2527489597858781457.post-79788043472612783512012-10-25T11:46:00.001-07:002012-10-25T11:46:13.614-07:00Transbay Tower will be tallest on USA West Coast<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The San Francisco skyline will soon feature the <a data-ls-seen="1" href="http://inhabitat.com/worlds-tallest-skyscraper-to-be-built-in-210-days-instead-of-90-as-originally-planned/" target="_blank">tallest skyscraper</a> on the West Coast, as the Transbay Tower was just approved by the San Francisco Planning Commission! Designed by <a data-ls-seen="1" href="http://pcparch.com/" target="_blank">Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects</a>,
the 1,070 foot, sixty-one story Transbay Tower will form the pinnacle
of the Transbay Transit Center. The center is to serve as a downtown hub
for <a data-ls-seen="1" href="http://www.caltrain.com/" target="_blank">Caltrain</a> and its forthcoming <a data-ls-seen="1" href="http://inhabitat.com/californias-high-speed-rail-gets-federal-approval-for-first-segment-of-the-800-mile-system/" target="_blank">high-speed rail network</a>.
A lower portion of the transit center will be topped with an elevated
green space, which will be called City Park, while the area surrounding
First and Mission Street will undergo significant redevelopment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Having received final approval by SF’s Planning Commission, the new
tower is set to form an integral part of a plan to enliven the area at
First and Mission Streets. The surrounding area will be redeveloped to
include not only the tower, but the train station, public plaza,
shopping center and public art.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The <a data-ls-seen="1" href="http://inhabitat.com/tag/tallest-skyscraper-after-burj-dubai/" target="_blank">metal and glass tower</a>
has undergone some design changes since it was first proposed in 2007,
including the addition of a curved mesh top, with a metal mesh that
thickens as the skin extends down the tower to the ground. This mesh
skin will also help divert rainwater, as well as make the structure
safer for birds flying at the high of the building’s crown.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Adding a new tower to <a data-ls-seen="1" href="http://inhabitat.com/video-inhabitat-interviews-san-francisco-mayor-gavin-newsom/" target="_blank">San Francisco</a>’s
skyline has of course been met with mixed reviews, but Planning
Commission President, Rodney Fong, feels that the gently tapered metal
and glass structure will harmonize with the city’s skyline, and not
overshadow it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Planning Commission will investigate the idea of installing an
observation deck atop the tower once the plan advances to the next
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Joe Trainorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03963030295031426970noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2527489597858781457.post-75910470460241574522012-10-19T08:19:00.001-07:002012-10-19T08:19:48.373-07:00World-class Architectural Animation and Renderings<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have just finished up an incredible animation of an Indoor City being built in Astana, Kazakhstan. It is two kilometres across and features innovative architecture that sees most units having front doors and windows that open on the indoor city side, yet have back windows that open into outdoor courtyards strategically pocketed throughout the circular design. It's a confidential project right now, however once the designs can be released to the public, we will display some stills and footage here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next thing up is some visualization for a major sporting event to take place in 2014, however we still have room for another two or three marquee projects for late 2012 and early 2013 delivery.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you are an architect or builder, do you have a world-class project that may benefit from hyper-realistic, top-shelf visualization? If so, please contact me via joetrainor at dhrendering.com and we can have a proposal over to you within 1 to 2 business hours of receiving the relevant info.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Have an inspiring weekend everyone, keep being creative!</span><br />
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<br />Joe Trainorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03963030295031426970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2527489597858781457.post-37915202069096794692012-09-19T11:14:00.000-07:002012-09-19T11:14:46.500-07:00Seven Super City Skylines<b>Cities that shimmer and glimmer in the night</b><br />
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Here are 7 spectacular city skylines, presented in alphabetical order.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">In a mature oak hammock along Sarasota Bay, the </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">architecture</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"> of the </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"><u><a href="http://totemsinc.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19&Itemid=73" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;">Casey Key Guest House</a></u></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"> is inspired by the forms of the oaks, which have been shaped by the prevailing coastal winds from the west. The Florida-based firm </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"><u><a href="http://www.totemsinc.com/index.html" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;">TOTeMS Architecture</a></u></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"> designed the home to be a “house in the trees,” with curved glulam pine beams that reflect the arching quality of the live oak limbs. The small structure includes one bedroom, one bath, a living area with kitchenette, and a loft. It also provides privacy between a neighboring property to the north, while offering broad views of the oak hammock to the south and west, and the intercoastal waterway to the east.</span>
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New Yongsang International Business area in Seoul, South Korea.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The wondrous and inspiring Gardens By the Bay gets bigger tomorrow, June 29, with the opening of the Bay South section of Singapore's innovative greenhouse and vertical gardens. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">Bay East has been developed as an interim park in support of the Youth Olympic Games 2010, and is opened to the public since Nov 2011, allowing an alternate access to the Marina Barrage. The full master plan implementation of Bay East and the development of Bay Central are part of the next phase of development.</span>
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The 2.3-million square-foot Pearl River Tower redefines what is possible in sustainable design by incorporating the latest green technology and engineering advancements. The 309-meter tower's sculpted body directs wind to a pair of openings at its mechanical floors, where traveling winds push turbines which generate energy for the building.<br />
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<b>Hualien Beach Resort (Hualien, TW) </b><br />
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Located between two river deltas in Taiwan, the Hualien Beach Resort used to be the site of an industrial factory region. Low-angle, high-glare morning and evening sun is blocked by the striped design while favorable north-south light is let in to the unit. Green roofs further mitigate heat gain, creating a low energy masterplan.<br />
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<br />Joe Trainorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03963030295031426970noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2527489597858781457.post-39654167311230306472012-05-18T08:22:00.000-07:002012-05-18T08:22:25.293-07:00CTF Tower in Tianjin, China, is world's newest phallic symbolEven though the 20th Century was mostly about ever taller urban penises, adding biomorphism to the "supertall" structures creates a lifelike icon, fully realized in Tianjin's new CTF Tower, designed by Chicago-based architects Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill (SOM).<BR><BR>
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This building is also reminiscent of Apollo rockets from NASA, ready for liftoff! Even though I prefer more horizontal, flowing, female-influenced buildings, as far as skyscrapers go, this one is a gem.Joe Trainorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03963030295031426970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2527489597858781457.post-74695098101869123232012-03-30T07:10:00.001-07:002012-03-30T07:12:25.222-07:00Google seeking greenest architect for new HQYou can’t even, well, Google it yet, but we’ve picked some meaty news from the grapevine: Google has fired German firm Ingenhoven Architects as the designers of its new headquarters in Mountain View, California. The building, to be located on 18.6 acres next to the current “Googleplex,” off of North Shoreline Boulevard, would measure a maximum of 595,000 square feet and house 2,500 to 3,000 employees, including executives, engineers, and scientists.<br /><br />“We have asked them to build the most green, sustainable building possible,” said Google Spokesman Jordan Newman last year. Newman had no comment about the latest developments. Meanwhile calls to Ingenhoven’s office in Santa Clara have not been returned.<br /><br />Construction was supposed to start later this year. But according to our sources, Google has sent out another request to solicit new architects and engineers. Google has already leased the land on the site, known as Charleston East, but according to Randy Tsuda, director of community development at the City of Mountain View, Google has not yet submitted an application for development on the property.<br /><br /><br />Source: Archpaper.comJoe Trainorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03963030295031426970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2527489597858781457.post-88133214209809587152012-03-12T12:14:00.002-07:002012-03-12T12:17:04.318-07:00Architecture and Morality - Serving Humanity<span style="font-weight:bold;">Humanitarian Design: 15 Fellowships for Architects and Designers</span><br /><br />By John Cary, March 2012 <br /><br />AmeriCorps, including its VISTA component, is America’s domestic service program that deploys college graduates to fight poverty in low-income communities. The AmeriCorps website sometimes promotes opportunities specifically for architects and designers, with “architectural planning” as an advanced search option. AmeriCorps members receive a modest living allowance, prorated for location (averaging approximately $15,000 annually), plus health insurance, and some programs provide housing assistance. AmeriCorps members who complete one term of service also qualify for an AmeriCorps Education Award, up to $5,500. For information: www.americorps.gov<br /><br />The Architecture for Humanity (AFH) Fellowship program places participants alongside regular staff, interns, and volunteers, both out of the organization’s San Francisco headquarters and on project sites around the world. The fellowships typically come with a modest stipend, which varies based on the duration of time and location. Opportunities are posted to the AFH website as they become available. Fellows For information: www.architectureforhumanity.org/programs/design-opportunities<br /><br />The buildingcommunityWORKSHOP Fellowship puts design and other college graduates to work through the AmeriCorps program in Dallas and other locales where the organization is working. Past fellowships have run over the course of a summer, or year-round. A modest living allowance is provided through AmeriCorps; application deadlines and terms vary. For information: www.bcworkshop.org<br /><br />The Design Corps Fellowship program is among the longest-running, and was previously supported by several state offices of AmeriCorps. Fellows now serve one-year terms, working on Design Corps projects, while also aiding and gaining exposure to the organization’s many other initiatives. One fellow is currently in residence in Raleigh, North Carolina, where Design Corps based. A living allowance of $15,000, health insurance, and other benefits are provided; application deadlines vary. For information: www.designcorps.org/opportunities/fellowship-program/program-description<br /><br />The Design Impact Fellowship is a six-month program that places U.S. designers in community organizations in India to work on social and environmental design projects. Design Impact covers the cost of all work-related travel (including flights to and from India), room and board, immunizations, visa fees, and health insurance, along with a $300 monthly stipend. For information: www.d-impact.org/fellowship/becomeafellow.php<br /><br />The Design Trust for Public Space Fellowships engage design and other creative professionals on projects being pursued by the organization. Recent projects have looked at public health issues, urban agriculture, and public life through photography. The number of fellows ranges annually, and stipends run from $5,000 to $15,000; opportunities are announced in the organization’s email newsletter as they become available. For information: www.designtrust.org/fellowships/fellowships.html<br /><br />Emerging Terrain Urban Design Fellowship is a new program aimed at practicing architects, engineers, landscape architects, and urban designers/planners. Emerging Terrain specifically seeks candidates interested in remaining in Nebraska and contributing locally upon completion of their term. In 2012, three fellowships will be awarded for a 12-month period, with a total stipend of $30,000. The next application cycle is expected to open later this year. For information: www.emergingterrain.org<br /><br />The Enterprise Rose Architectural Fellowship is a three-year program through which architecture graduates are placed in community organizations to work on affordable housing and community development projects across the country. Thirty-five individuals have completed the program since its inception in 2000. The fellowship includes an annual salary of $47,500, plus benefits and extensive leadership training. The next applications will be available shortly and likely due in June. For information: www.rosefellowship.org<br /><br />The Global Health Corps offers a small number of fellowship opportunities for designers to work in Rwanda with MASS Design Group, on projects like its Butaro Hospital and evolving master plan. The deadline for applications is in January or February of each year. This year’s fellows will be provided with a $650 stipend per month, living arrangements in Kigali, transportation, health insurance, and $1,500 on completion of the fellowship. For information: www.ghcorps.org <br /><br />The IDEO.org Fellowship, or “Global Innovators in Residence” program, has quickly emerged as one of the most coveted and competitive fellowships, with over 500 applications this year for roughly half a dozen slots. The program enables design, business, and social sector leaders to spend one year working with experienced IDEO designers to address poverty-related challenges worldwide. The 11-month fellowship includes a $50,000 salary, plus health insurance and coverage of all work-related expenses. The next deadline for applications will be in late 2012. For information: www.ideo.org/fellows<br /><br />The Loeb Fellowship at the Harvard Graduate School of Design confers up to ten fellowships annually on mid-career professionals in design and related areas of work. Public interest design leaders are frequently among the classes of fellows selected annually. The nine-month fellowships include a stipend of $47,500, housing, and full access to the courses and resources of Harvard University and other Boston-area universities. The annual deadline for applications is January 3. For information: www.gsd.harvard.edu/professional/loeb_fellowship<br /><br />The Public Policy Lab Fellowship offers several multi-month, part-time fellowships to creative professionals, including architects and designers, to aid in their service design work. Fellows selected from its recent February 21 deadline, for example, will partner with the Parsons The New School for Design and the New York City Department of Housing Preservation & Development to deliver more effective, efficient, and satisfying public housing services. Candidates must be able to participate, in person, in New York-area meetings and events. For information: www.publicpolicylab.org/fellowship<br /><br />The U.S. Peace Corps provides volunteers with a 27-month fellowship to work in one of 76 countries around the world. Like AmeriCorps, the Peace Corps does not specifically recruit for design professionals, though a small cohort of architects has taken part in the program over the decades. Peace Corps volunteers receive a modest living allowance based on location, along with housing assistance, health insurance, and travel coverage, as well as a $7,425 transition payment on completion of the 27-month term. For information: www.peacecorps.gov<br /><br />The Van Alen Fellowship is the latest iteration of several fellowship programs run by Van Alen Institute over the years. Still under development, the organization hopes to call for up to six new fellows later this year to undertake studies and work at the intersection of design and public policy. If anything like Van Alen Institute’s recent New York Prize Fellowship, it will be a multi-month engagement, including a modest honorarium. For information: www.vanalen.org/projects/fellowshipJoe Trainorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03963030295031426970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2527489597858781457.post-81641179575122792672012-03-08T11:03:00.004-08:002012-03-08T11:09:25.784-08:00Tokyo Sky Tree opening in May, 2012<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgIM5j7MGhyphenhyphenTtktOxyhJoebdUPibipYS1if4zHGkdF_owmKoaVnIZiJdgjiMCrNY1gBONqPEais62XgHaRBJAH5_bM3Qcy5xLvSytEL2OIfhegiGKd36i985inNNeRsCQncyjbiwlwd9ml/s1600/tokyo-sky-tree-tower-skyline.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 327px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgIM5j7MGhyphenhyphenTtktOxyhJoebdUPibipYS1if4zHGkdF_owmKoaVnIZiJdgjiMCrNY1gBONqPEais62XgHaRBJAH5_bM3Qcy5xLvSytEL2OIfhegiGKd36i985inNNeRsCQncyjbiwlwd9ml/s400/tokyo-sky-tree-tower-skyline.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5717605193831496674" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOEltNyAKUCDzfuZExeLYSG9fj-kvWv-xh5q2VqK2KH9Yu1kJhOAt2VunvNpobNWOwSYHMyDftTx7v7sSj4mvP4bEv1_Mm7JDkjXBM8U4BjkxcWQiEJs-mVWmZdxQZt65toTjqo7yFCLC5/s1600/tokyo+sky+tree+vertical.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 156px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOEltNyAKUCDzfuZExeLYSG9fj-kvWv-xh5q2VqK2KH9Yu1kJhOAt2VunvNpobNWOwSYHMyDftTx7v7sSj4mvP4bEv1_Mm7JDkjXBM8U4BjkxcWQiEJs-mVWmZdxQZt65toTjqo7yFCLC5/s400/tokyo+sky+tree+vertical.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5717604852033111106" /></a><br /><br />The Tokyo Sky Tree (東京スカイツリー Tōkyō Sukai Tsurī?) was formerly known as New Tokyo Tower (新東京タワー Shin Tōkyō Tawā?), and it is a broadcasting, restaurant, and observation tower in Sumida, Tokyo, Japan. It became the tallest structure in Japan in 2010 and reached its full height of 634.0 metres (2,080 ft) in March 2011, making it the tallest communications tower in the world and the second tallest structure in the world after Burj Khalifa (829.84 m/2,723 ft) in Dubai.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5-1A6fxMUZEqcR1QVbYgHv7VXfGRhkZgWKAku0JZv31uTBZNs4E7VnBjgT8G612AHYWyJuyfVBiInuYh9u6mFuMAAOTyMyUrjsxStFWqh3xXL-K789ElWYoQ6dCPKrs1aZxn0PlDtUpkG/s1600/tokyo+sky+tree+construction.jpeg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 247px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5-1A6fxMUZEqcR1QVbYgHv7VXfGRhkZgWKAku0JZv31uTBZNs4E7VnBjgT8G612AHYWyJuyfVBiInuYh9u6mFuMAAOTyMyUrjsxStFWqh3xXL-K789ElWYoQ6dCPKrs1aZxn0PlDtUpkG/s400/tokyo+sky+tree+construction.jpeg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5717604850083027490" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqVNb3Dbmg7U4ODCjLU8CetsJkQFhtig14YRONg_MFW2W9K8Zof241bQme-Nd_yuNpPSA0xob9aBTE2B-lcI4gyfYEOKCHhAfVp5cLlLLiDDtLtmqt44fE1JOyQ-NPPTpQlFgjLSqFyxCN/s1600/Tokyo+Sky+Tree+constr2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 374px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqVNb3Dbmg7U4ODCjLU8CetsJkQFhtig14YRONg_MFW2W9K8Zof241bQme-Nd_yuNpPSA0xob9aBTE2B-lcI4gyfYEOKCHhAfVp5cLlLLiDDtLtmqt44fE1JOyQ-NPPTpQlFgjLSqFyxCN/s400/Tokyo+Sky+Tree+constr2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5717604845609589218" /></a><br /><br /><br />Led by Tobu Railway and a group of six terrestrial broadcasters headed by NHK, the tower project forms the centrepiece of a large commercial development equidistant from Narihirabashi and Oshiage train stations, 7 km (4.3 mi) north-east of Tokyo station. One of its main purposes is to relay television and radio broadcast signals; Tokyo's current facility, Tokyo Tower with a height of 333 m (1,093 ft), no longer gives complete digital terrestrial television broadcasting coverage because it is surrounded by many high-rise buildings. The project was completed on 29 February 2012, with the tower's public opening due on 22 May 2012.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0QnFdvEqzlcdXqxhSlHiXlVuILkS309kDJ3SdrLkYHdEDADBkLEvccxJ-73OBXBtFOAl0eas3Yc-3Lu-jHHgjocMugZcMUYysVKnEKfVabLEb5fHEw3lH7imPN0_CVvFxyDukh5v9IqMn/s1600/tokyo-sky-tree-tower+composite.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 273px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0QnFdvEqzlcdXqxhSlHiXlVuILkS309kDJ3SdrLkYHdEDADBkLEvccxJ-73OBXBtFOAl0eas3Yc-3Lu-jHHgjocMugZcMUYysVKnEKfVabLEb5fHEw3lH7imPN0_CVvFxyDukh5v9IqMn/s400/tokyo-sky-tree-tower+composite.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5717604857812136770" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMG329P95ykJig_1mUBX66q4ZpfH-4x6TGeTqCRj1TtkA6laLmwWQeHP56ZCGOA_6PgPnF-nCQMwj_Rd45hyphenhyphencDwM7GLqbzcouPmrx03CeI-1zdFyoxB_SSO6u6DnavyUxZTN-t9q6aNxAz/s1600/tokyo-sky-tree-purple+at+night.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 277px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMG329P95ykJig_1mUBX66q4ZpfH-4x6TGeTqCRj1TtkA6laLmwWQeHP56ZCGOA_6PgPnF-nCQMwj_Rd45hyphenhyphencDwM7GLqbzcouPmrx03CeI-1zdFyoxB_SSO6u6DnavyUxZTN-t9q6aNxAz/s400/tokyo-sky-tree-purple+at+night.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5717604853075696530" /></a>Joe Trainorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03963030295031426970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2527489597858781457.post-73209379410817481142012-02-26T14:34:00.003-08:002012-02-26T14:44:28.896-08:00Hoki Museum exhibits grace and unassuming elegance<span style="font-weight:bold;">designed by architect Tomohiko Yamanashi of the firm Nikken Sekkei</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqadgY6focKI05_RVSEuATsPbhWmGBnCNOFVL3BFUG8Yb5mFOQo-b0VooLwnpSo0T7n-WoChn70n6PkI_WpvkcNoBk0NUQjxeKsQpLZS_YRR6rRlLmXoxk5mNnsO2gUlaRidcGn1Zp9Je6/s1600/Hoki-Museum-by-Nikken-Sekkei-dusk.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 280px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqadgY6focKI05_RVSEuATsPbhWmGBnCNOFVL3BFUG8Yb5mFOQo-b0VooLwnpSo0T7n-WoChn70n6PkI_WpvkcNoBk0NUQjxeKsQpLZS_YRR6rRlLmXoxk5mNnsO2gUlaRidcGn1Zp9Je6/s400/Hoki-Museum-by-Nikken-Sekkei-dusk.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5713576776932798146" /></a><br /><br />Hoki Museum is based on the idea of what an art museum essentially is: an interface between art and bipedal, sentient beings. It takes the form of an almost continuous 500m-long corridor that is then folded into three levels so you don’t exit too far from the parking lot when you finish.<br /><br />This design gives a much smoother feel to the experience of viewing an exhibition, while the cantilevered top floor creates an illusion of weightlessness. Another interesting architectural point is that, seen from above, the building’s intersecting curves seem to form the shape of a lens—a perfect metaphor for the museum’s purpose of showing art that conforms to the rules of light and perspective.<br /><br /><br />The Hoki Museum is Japan's first museum dedicated to Realist painting.<br /><br />What makes Realist painting so fascinating? Realist art works depict what the painter sees, as is. These works are intricately worked, each massively time-consuming, as the painter creates just a few works a year, facing the same canvas day after day. And when we see the worlds created in such works, we sense that the painting has so much more to say than the reality it depicts.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiqQtDOxER952bTS_qS3XCs5PoZwhaKRDJfUhqbTjvkCMuqdhDkU1TdajqvQMG5tYdvH2GPXKnsniDykn1Qdde03k-YufUuVY45uQHbpCxxizRgs8X9MxszkJHb0pe4ckCcdNnB_lG0uyD/s1600/Hoki-Museum-by-Nikken-Sekkei-aeial+view.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiqQtDOxER952bTS_qS3XCs5PoZwhaKRDJfUhqbTjvkCMuqdhDkU1TdajqvQMG5tYdvH2GPXKnsniDykn1Qdde03k-YufUuVY45uQHbpCxxizRgs8X9MxszkJHb0pe4ckCcdNnB_lG0uyD/s400/Hoki-Museum-by-Nikken-Sekkei-aeial+view.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5713576770560457570" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjmeQjiH_o1PzI_4qedUmtuwYFCb1hbT7Jv6UrrqQ_JKC0vRXJjPHfBVJv42nZSUjvS5I6pzyzFO21943__STomdXKr0Ut2hxbD7yS4v7SWjd9TcL6tEF9I5hcD4bX4pohsDwNnCKslpgD/s1600/hoki_museum_interior+hall.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 290px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjmeQjiH_o1PzI_4qedUmtuwYFCb1hbT7Jv6UrrqQ_JKC0vRXJjPHfBVJv42nZSUjvS5I6pzyzFO21943__STomdXKr0Ut2hxbD7yS4v7SWjd9TcL6tEF9I5hcD4bX4pohsDwNnCKslpgD/s400/hoki_museum_interior+hall.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5713576771070862034" /></a><br /><br /><br />The Hoki Museum opened on November 3, 2010 as one of the few museums in the world dedicated to Realist paintings. Museum Director Masao Hoki assembled the museum's collection of approximately 300 examples of Realist paintings.<br /><br />The Museum's building is located next to the verdant Showa-no-Mori Park, Chiba City's largest park, and consists of one above ground and two below ground stories featuring corridor-style galleries comprise 500 meters of exhibition space. One gallery is cantilevered to appear to be floating in space.<br /><br />Approximately 160 works by around 40 artists are on display at any one time, including 32 paintings that form Japan's largest collection of works by Sousuke Morimoto, and others by artists such as Hiroshi Noda and Tadahiko Nakayama. Special displays feature the works of fifteen artists who have produced large-scale works for the museum's "My Best Work" series.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6yw40sDbCPhN4ORUaQZ6kUgcRVFSJUxiN_9CERgXwe1PIl6wBpbsfnkRb6SzPxNi-OSNSyJKt0ueg0jT2kms2WldZY1ubzgIf8n8GEo_IUpSGP6TW9uFIg9Uyc-ECeUvYm4_7QMEcUIen/s1600/hoki_museum_exterior.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6yw40sDbCPhN4ORUaQZ6kUgcRVFSJUxiN_9CERgXwe1PIl6wBpbsfnkRb6SzPxNi-OSNSyJKt0ueg0jT2kms2WldZY1ubzgIf8n8GEo_IUpSGP6TW9uFIg9Uyc-ECeUvYm4_7QMEcUIen/s400/hoki_museum_exterior.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5713576769646092818" /></a><br /><br />The museum's galleries were designed specifically for the optimum display and appreciation of Realist paintings, featuring picture rail-free walls and the latest technology LED and halogen lighting imbedded in the ceilings. Additional facilities include the Italian restaurant Hanau, produced by Al Porto chef Kataoka Mamoru, a café, and a museum shop.<br /><br />We hope that you will enjoy your experience of the beautiful world of Realist painting in this inviting setting.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzNWWX0Vr_deOwxrnYplPT1EklpPP88BimnfBALwdKmsrfCdCPEQ1YXhfmKlqrk9UAyfPO-1QuQewAzOW1OGExvLgzFNUKcZ5D7gPvNqUHCFItWACyehA6fNHNxCx0hyphenhyphenh3tYsPZ8I6q1vr/s1600/hoki_museum+-+with+art+on+walls.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzNWWX0Vr_deOwxrnYplPT1EklpPP88BimnfBALwdKmsrfCdCPEQ1YXhfmKlqrk9UAyfPO-1QuQewAzOW1OGExvLgzFNUKcZ5D7gPvNqUHCFItWACyehA6fNHNxCx0hyphenhyphenh3tYsPZ8I6q1vr/s400/hoki_museum+-+with+art+on+walls.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5713576762170626706" /></a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Today, the Hoki Museum collections include 300 works by some 40 painters, ranging from great masters to young artists. Up until now, there have been few opportunities to see Realist works in Japan. The Hoki Museum will now fill that void. My hope is that the Hoki Museum will be a "healing museum" where visitors can appreciate the art works slowly and thoroughly.<br /><br />The Hoki Museum's building was specifically designed and constructed for this collection. Made up of three stories, one above ground, two below, the galleries are layered, long corridors filled with images. A section of the structure floats in the air. It is my great hope that many people will visit the museum, and that through all of our efforts, Japanese Realist painting will develop all the more.</span><br /><br />Masao Hoki<br />Director, Hoki Museum<br /><br /><br /><br />Sources: hoki-museum.jp, metropolis.co.jp/arts/art-reviews/hoki-museum/Joe Trainorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03963030295031426970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2527489597858781457.post-45149892428701077362012-02-25T10:02:00.002-08:002012-02-25T10:06:50.947-08:00SeaSteading for 21st Century pioneers<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdT4JnWx3IarWxNAgWgLXw2QyqqKS3ebzx68v7tMBgCSGYjX0ZjMpZ-3Pupf2gcVlhVIKn-aXdrQr7NymLtIOsfY5-elhFFEcS-9loTgsVcCmTv-9N-yUsa2fa7WuzRdEs6HSFj2VG0zUr/s1600/floating+city.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdT4JnWx3IarWxNAgWgLXw2QyqqKS3ebzx68v7tMBgCSGYjX0ZjMpZ-3Pupf2gcVlhVIKn-aXdrQr7NymLtIOsfY5-elhFFEcS-9loTgsVcCmTv-9N-yUsa2fa7WuzRdEs6HSFj2VG0zUr/s400/floating+city.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5713135426724327474" /></a><br />SeaSteading is a new vision for floating cities, which are modeled after “semi-submersible oil platforms” so that even in stormy and inhospitable conditions, there will be very little motion and residents will “hardly know that they are on a floating body.” The cities will be powered by wind turbines, solar power, and other new technologies.<br /><br />Wendy Sitler/Roddier/The Seasteading Institute<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Floating city conceived as high-tech incubator</span><br /><br />by MICHAEL POSNER, Saturday's Globe and Mail<br /><br /><br />You’re a Canadian businesswoman, let us say, with a brilliant idea for a high-tech startup. All you need is a year in Silicon Valley – time to network, sell the concept, raise capital and gain liftoff.<br /><br />Only one problem: You can visit, but you can’t stay. U.S. immigration officials won’t let you.<br /><br />Enter Blueseed, an enterprise that is the brainchild of two immigrants to the United States, Max Marty from Cuba and Dario Mutabdzija from the former Yugoslavia. They hope to launch America’s first experiment in seasteading, the creation of permanent, politically autonomous floating cities.<br /><br />Although skeptics consider the project impractical and the estimated cost of startup is at least $25-million, Blueseed’s basic plan to convert a cruise ship into a complex that will incubate high-tech innovation has attracted interest and money.<br /><br />To avoid the reach of maritime law, the Blueseed boat would be parked in international waters, 22 kilometres from San Francisco and nearby Silicon Valley, terrestrial magnet for innovators and venture capitalists.<br /><br />“Unfortunately, foreigner entrepreneurs have a hard time getting visas to stay legally,” explains Blueseed’s president, Mr. Mutabdzija, a 32-year-old lawyer who emigrated to the U.S. with his family from Serbia in the 1990s. “A standard three-month work permit does not give you enough time to raise money, network, find talent or do anything significant.”<br /><br />A floating city, operating outside the jurisdiction of the U.S. Coast Guard and American port or immigration authorities – and offering daily ferry boat or helicopter runs into Silicon Valley – could be the answer.<br /><br />If its plans proceed on schedule, Blueseed would acquire and moor its ship by the fall of 2013.<br /><br />Rent would constitute Blueseed’s primary source of revenue from a potential of up to 1,000 tenants, each paying about $1,200 a month. But the company also intends to claim small equity stakes in the businesses it houses.<br /><br />Blueseed residents would simply need a B-1 business visa. Relatively easy to acquire, they permit travel to the U.S., are valid for up to 10 years, and allow overnight stays. The ship would provide the venue for what the visa does not allow – actually doing business on American soil.<br /><br />Blueseed already has at least one deep-pocketed backer. Billionaire libertarian Peter Thiel – co-founder of PayPal – has injected some $500,000 in seed money. It’s one of more than a dozen investments he’s made in innovative startups, some of which (Facebook, Yelp, Zynga, LinkedIn) have become game-changers.<br /><br />In principle, building semi-permanent colonies at sea is less implausible than it might seem. Small cities of people now effectively reside on vast, ocean-going cruise ships. Sizable communities also live for months on off-shore oil rigs, outfitted with basic housing and recreation facilities.<br /><br />And there have been a few attempts at sea-based colonization. Since 1967, for example, a retired British major, Paddy Roy Bates, and his extended clan have occupied the so-called Principality of Sealand, a Second World War U.K. naval encampment 10 kilometres off the coast of Suffolk.<br /><br />Laying claim to sovereign status, the Bates community has adopted all the trappings of nationhood – a flag, a currency, passports and a national anthem. But no state has yet conferred formal recognition.<br /><br />In the early 1970s, Las Vegas libertarian millionaire Michael Oliver imported boatloads of sand from Australia and established the Republic of Minerva – essentially a glorified sandbar – in the South Pacific, near Tonga. Alas, Mr. Oliver’s idyll of an independent fiefdom was quickly shattered. Tonga laid claim to the “territory,” and invaded.<br /><br />But the seasteading ambition remains, and nowhere more prominently than at the San Francisco-based Seasteading Institute, which also claims Mr. Thiel as a benefactor.<br /><br />Founded in 2008 and chaired by Patri Friedman, 35-year-old grandson of Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman, the non-profit SI springs from the libertarian assumption that current political systems are sclerotic and beyond meaningful reform.<br /><br />Only new frontiers, it maintains, can catalyze new experiments in democratic governance. Because habitable land is largely spoken for by the world’s nation states, what remains of virgin territory is the deep, blue sea. And, outside territorial waters, it is theoretically claimable.<br /><br />“We’re not about creating libertarian utopias or billionaire playgrounds,” SI president Michael Keenan said. “The goal is to have a variety of floating cities, with different political systems and social ideas. We no longer believe that one ideology, one form of government, is right for everyone.”<br /><br />In fact, the potential appeal of seasteading lies in what Mr. Freidman has called “dynamic geography” – a principle that would allow any given seasteading colony to join or secede larger units within the whole.<br /><br />That reasoning “is deeply flawed,” said Timothy B. Lee, an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. “In a real-world seasteading community, powerful economic forces would…leave seasteaders no freer than the rest of us.”<br /><br />For now, the Seasteading Institute is nowhere close to realizing its ambitions. The obstacles – legal, financial, environmental and technical – are profound, if not insuperable.<br /><br />That’s why Mr. Mutabdzija, who is based in Sunnyvale, Calif., thinks Blueseed’s for-profit model represents a faster track for testing the idea, even though the project will need to navigate a minefield of U.S. regulatory agencies.<br /><br />“It’s like building a bridge,” he says. “You need to create segments of the bridge before you can connect them and prove the viability of the whole.”<br /><br />“The Institute is a useful organization,” allows Mr. Mutabdzija – until a year ago, he served as its director of legal affairs – “but it may be decades before the various hurdles are overcome.”<br /><br />The engineering issues alone – designing an ecology-friendly, floating city able to absorb the ocean’s wave action and more than occasional storms – are daunting. There are ancillary questions about electricity generation, sewage and a desalinated water supply.<br /><br />Then there’s the potential legal quagmire. A nation’s territorial waters extend 12 kilometres offshore, although many countries claim the right to enforce criminal laws 24 kilometres out, while others claim a 322-kilometre economic exclusion zone.<br /><br />If seasteads became bases for business operations, which Mr. Keenan says they must, they’d be in violation. But even 50 nautical miles away from land is likely too far to maintain logistical supply lines.<br /><br />Also unclear is how seasteads would protect themselves from marauders, pirates and would-be terrorists.<br /><br />Despite the obstacles, Mr. Keenan believes the political vacuum is urgent enough to yield solutions.<br /><br />“We need more experimentation and opportunities for people to live in different ways,” he says. “Let’s try a variety of ideas – libertarian, communist, direct democracy. Most startups fail – and that’s okay. We’ll find out what doesn’t work.”<br /><br />In the meantime, the organization’s founder, Mr. Friedman, may be hedging his bets. He is also CEO of Future Cities Development Corp, which hopes to build land-based urban centres governed by libertarian principles. The first one would be located in a special autonomous zone recently established by the government of Honduras.<br /><br />Mr. Keenan calls this “seasteading on land,” though another word for it might be homesteading.Joe Trainorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03963030295031426970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2527489597858781457.post-42084814863436096122012-02-16T13:46:00.000-08:002012-02-16T13:51:02.239-08:00Rem Koolhaas to speak in Manama, Bahrain on Feb 28th<span style="font-weight:bold;">Architecture set to spark an engaging dialogue about social interaction </span><br /><br />from Bahrain News Agency<br /><br />Manama, Feb. 16 (BNA)-- Beginning on February 16, the acclaimed jurists invited by Manama, the Capital of Arab Culture 2012 to assess the Bab Al Bahrain competition entries will meet and review the various designs showcased at the custom-built pavilion in the heart of old Manama – the Bab Al Bahrain 'Square.' Their decision will be announced on 16th of February at 7pm in Bab Al Bahrain to be followed by a roundtable discussion, open to the public. All entries will be on exhibition at the pavilion from 16th of February.<br /><br /><br />Running from 15th of November 2011 until 1st of February 2012, this competition sparked much regional interest with similar initiatives embarked upon in Libya and Egypt as a result. Members of the jury are Shaikha Mai bint Mohammed Al Khalifa, Bahrain's Minister of Culture, Joseph Grima – the Milan-based architect and editor in chief of Domus magazine, Bernard Khoury – internationally-acclaimed Lebanese architect, Ahmed Al Ali – reputed UAE architect and entrepreneur, Bjarne Mastenbroek - the founder and principal of SeARCH, an innovative architecture and urban design company, and Ma'amoun Almoayyed – Bahraini architect and founder of Architecture 360 Design Studio. The winner will receive a prize of US $15,000 while a People's Choice Award, based on public voting, will also be presented to a winning entry on 1st March. People are invited to vote on the submissions from 16th February to 1st March at the Bab al Bahrain Pavilion.<br /><br />In line with Manama, the Capital of Arab Culture 2012 programme objective of dialogue and cultural exchanges, Bernard Khoury, Ahmed Al Ali and Bjarne Mastenbroek will engage in the debate on public spaces on 17th February at the Bab al Bahrain pavilion while another key highlight will be the 'Exploring Social Interaction' workshop, scheduled to take place on 25th and 26th February at Bab al Bahrain. Registration for the workshop is possible via the following email: babcompetition@moc.gov.bh Designed to review urban dynamics – people's natural sense and formation of communities and how this is accommodated in design and town planning, the workshop will examine public spaces by experimenting with direct public interaction using Ecosistema Urbano's digital tool, WHATIF.es. <br /><br />The month will close with Pritzker Award winning architect, Rem Koolhaas who will be in Manama on 28th in order to give a public talk on architecture in the Arabian Gulf region. One of the most influential voices in contemporary architecture, Koolhaas' talk, entitled 'Current Preoccupations' will shed light on the state of design and planning in light of regional events and changes.<br /><br />Undertaken by the Arab League under the auspices of the UNESCO Cultural Capitals Programme, every year a different Arab capital is awarded the opportunity to engage in a cultural dialogue with local and regional audiences. Manama was elected as the Capital of Arab Culture in a meeting of Arab ministers of culture in 2004. The Bahrain Ministry of Culture has developed an innovative agenda for the year, which seeks to invite Arabs to discover the cultures, heritages and identities of different parts of the Arab world. The year-long programme for Manama, the Capital of Arab Culture 2012 is broken up into 12 different cultural themes according to the months of the year and is designed to foster an environment of multi-disciplinary learning with an appeal to all sectors of society.<br /><br />Further information can be obtained at <a href="http://www.manamaculture2012.bh"target="_blank">www.manamaculture2012.bh</a>Joe Trainorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03963030295031426970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2527489597858781457.post-13357407333777427082012-02-16T11:19:00.000-08:002012-02-16T11:29:17.587-08:00Plantscraper in Sweden a pioneering urban farming initiative<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4aqcSNuFdlQDJXUlWa_-hhyphenhyphenEOeyb0XZQ85L9CMWSyCVvs79wXiqj_sBDoHVhQicSUM7qwJp0NJ1aPJ0fscHdFSIACgTTWDE5fEFPsN92VjUxFxH1pfksdWTWzeQx_2BsArYFoAkN2od9p/s1600/plantagon+geodesiv+dome.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4aqcSNuFdlQDJXUlWa_-hhyphenhyphenEOeyb0XZQ85L9CMWSyCVvs79wXiqj_sBDoHVhQicSUM7qwJp0NJ1aPJ0fscHdFSIACgTTWDE5fEFPsN92VjUxFxH1pfksdWTWzeQx_2BsArYFoAkN2od9p/s400/plantagon+geodesiv+dome.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5709817581917916802" /></a><br />Plantagon's geodesic greenhouse - Bucky Fuller would be proud!<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Plantagon Breaks Ground on its First ‘Plantscraper’ Vertical Farm in Sweden!</span><br /><br />by Molly Cotter, 02/14/12, Inhabitat.com<br /><br />Several years ago a Swedish-American company called Plantagon unveiled plans for a series of massive skyscraper greenhouses that stood to transform urban farming in large cities. While the spiraling vertical farms seemed too good to be true at the time, Plantagon just broke ground on its very first vertical farm this week in Linkoping, Sweden! The “Plantscraper” will grow and supply fresh vegetables while creating solutions to some of the most vexing city pollution issues.<br /><br />Plantagon seems to have traded in its initial geodesic dome design for a sheer tower that both contains and showcases the plants growing inside. This prototype building will be called the International Centre of Excellence for Urban Agriculture, and it will be a place for scientists to test new technologies aimed at improving urban farming.<br /><br /><iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/IcMgkgHxGPM?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br />Inside the massive glass walls, vegetables will be grown in pots and then transitioned to trays positioned around a giant central helix. The plants grow as the trays slowly migrate down the central core and are ready to be harvested once they reach the bottom. Plant residue and manure will be collected along the way and transformed into biogas to run the heating and cooling systems of the greenhouse. Scientists want the vertical farm to not only grow food but also help in developing sustainable solutions for energy, heat, waste, and water issues of daily city life.<br /><br />Construction on the company’s first enormous vertical greenhouse is expected to take 12 to 16 months.<br /><br /><br /><object style="height: 390px; width: 640px"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Gzim4hTGRQE?version=3&feature=player_detailpage"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Gzim4hTGRQE?version=3&feature=player_detailpage" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="640" height="360"></object>Joe Trainorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03963030295031426970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2527489597858781457.post-74419488106188442832012-02-09T12:55:00.000-08:002012-02-09T13:02:16.538-08:00Richard Wengle creates bold Block visionby JOHN BENTLEY MAYS, The Globe and Mail<br /><br />Of all the posh houses by Toronto architects I have reviewed in this column and elsewhere, the ones I have been meanest about are by Richard Wengle. I don’t like the stuffy pastiches of defunct historical languages he has set down in Forest Hill.<br /><br />But recently – long after deciding that nothing good would ever come out of his office – I discovered that Mr. Wengle has devised something considerably better than the single-family fare he usually gives to his clientele. It’s a townhouse complex in downtown Toronto called Block. This project is hardly stunning, but its modest modernism is likable, sincere and urbane. Not for the first time, I’ve been surprised by an architect I thought I had all figured out.<br /><br />Designed for Treasure Hill Developments and slated to go up in Little Italy, Block will contain 37 freehold townhouses priced at between $900,000 and $1.7-million, with most for sale around $1-million. The units range in area from 2,647 square feet to about 3,700 square feet, and feature three to five bedrooms. At only 14 feet wide, the townhouses are narrow, but ceiling heights are generous: ten feet on the main floor, nine on the floors above.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqSn2XgZa738r-k0oebj_yWmIufefvgcxU3XskQxllcOTRThztquB0RPeXp4TRg3m9QS7NLjbqKBHcN0SSXSRwS1WnbPSlnEJkGO3GjPHbFbqcLp1ZlxzOHOvN-zzOloMaJGcU1K_pkIKr/s1600/Block+townhouse+by+Wengle+for+Treasue+Hill.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqSn2XgZa738r-k0oebj_yWmIufefvgcxU3XskQxllcOTRThztquB0RPeXp4TRg3m9QS7NLjbqKBHcN0SSXSRwS1WnbPSlnEJkGO3GjPHbFbqcLp1ZlxzOHOvN-zzOloMaJGcU1K_pkIKr/s400/Block+townhouse+by+Wengle+for+Treasue+Hill.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5707243343081175330" /></a><br /><br /><br />Taking into account Block’s upmarket prices, ample sizes, and modernist credentials, it’s easy to guess the profiles of the home-buyers Block will probably attract.<br /><br />Some will surely be empty-nesters. But more than a few, I suspect, will be high-earning young professionals who have learned to love big-city living and style in the new condominium towers at the urban core.<br /><br />These people will be at the stage in life when they want families, but they won’t want to give up the efficiency and convenience they’ve enjoyed in high-density contemporary circumstances. The best thing about Block is the fresh space it opens up for thoroughly citified couples – at least those with lots of money – ready to start and raise families near Toronto’s cultural heart.<br /><br />Mr. Wengle’s exterior treatments have been crafted with such customers in mind. Composed of glass, black manganese brick, limestone, light stucco and pre-cast concrete, the street-side fronts of the three-level, flat-roofed buildings have been inspired by the squared-off angularity and clean visual rhythm of European multi-unit modernism. But they also say “home” in ways that Torontonians will immediately recognize – with little gardens and short flights of steps and shallow porches. (Each house also has a 30-foot back yard.)<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdjlXSPANxUYbh1J-N7AZi5jH8WOk8BuY-L2mteOpjA06YQFD61MXF7H-UskNHgFM_Yzpi7S2e5pJaGrqCLo9zF19yuTmR3dkVpUZVkgvJvypa8k7U1gXJ0oNzgP4IzL4FcnLz0X5ewgTB/s1600/block-bathroom.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 264px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdjlXSPANxUYbh1J-N7AZi5jH8WOk8BuY-L2mteOpjA06YQFD61MXF7H-UskNHgFM_Yzpi7S2e5pJaGrqCLo9zF19yuTmR3dkVpUZVkgvJvypa8k7U1gXJ0oNzgP4IzL4FcnLz0X5ewgTB/s400/block-bathroom.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5707243979340995186" /></a><br /><br />I was interested to learn from developer Nick Fidei, head of Treasure Hill, that the earliest version of Block, by another architect, was quite different from what Mr. Wengle came up with. Mr. Fidei had originally planned to bring us yet another clump of townhouses in a faux-Victorian style – surely the most trite, tired architectural tendency at work on the low-rise end of Toronto’s housing boom. He was persuaded by serious market research to abandon visiting this blight on the city, and he accordingly commissioned Richard Wengle’s much fresher exterior design.<br /><br />The developer’s new-found commitment to up-tempo modernist styling is also apparent in Block’s open-plan interiors. While some local suppliers of new residential units give consumers choices (all bland) about the look of their suites, Mr. Fidei is laying before his potential clients a range of finishes that are simply cooler than usual.<br /><br />The three palettes of materials and colours were created by the Toronto-based international design firm of Cecconi Simone. One is white, sleek, shimmering. Another (showcased at Block’s sales centre) is very dark with a few light accents – a dramatic, sharp scheme that’s pitched to more design-savvy homeowners. Purchasers with tamer inclinations may find the third version to their liking: It’s mainly taupe, but it still has flair rarely seen in Hogtown’s housing salesrooms.<br /><br />The market for new low-rise residences, of course, will be the ultimate judge of Toronto’s readiness to embrace Block and the kind of unshowy modernism it represents. Anna Simone, principal in Cecconi Simone, believes the judgment will be favourable to what she and Mr. Wengle have done here. “The condo market has created a taste for modern design,” she told me recently, apropos Block – a taste other low-rise developers will have to reckon with and serve.<br /><br />I hope Ms. Simone is right. But, at least for now, the choice facing a young Torontonian ready to graduate from high-rise loft to family-sized dwelling is unfortunately simple. It’s either go to suburbia, or stay downtown and buy an old house, or get one of those fake-old jobs that have sprung up across the city in recent years. I hope downtown developers will follow Mr. Fidei’s lead and give design-conscious, family-minded couples the modern housing options they don’t have now.Joe Trainorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03963030295031426970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2527489597858781457.post-41464958054985423002012-01-19T12:09:00.000-08:002012-01-19T12:24:13.549-08:00SOM Chicago building green tower in China<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYcFZ5bVGtN1pIbRVdGTnJfaHqr4jL-aaS20fe9MNf3Orj5WefTaZ3yrBM-pPA_ZzQ5IrNUjbOlVamLrpU2sITKutu5TKfy3sc5Uhk1kOfxmEsjKH7kTAl9Vll0T5k2H5NUoZHKJF0s2El/s1600/Suzhou-Center-SOM-1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 329px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYcFZ5bVGtN1pIbRVdGTnJfaHqr4jL-aaS20fe9MNf3Orj5WefTaZ3yrBM-pPA_ZzQ5IrNUjbOlVamLrpU2sITKutu5TKfy3sc5Uhk1kOfxmEsjKH7kTAl9Vll0T5k2H5NUoZHKJF0s2El/s400/Suzhou-Center-SOM-1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5699441378404053442" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP's design includes 30-storey atrium</span><br /><br /> <br />SOM Chicago just announced that they have won a design competition to create the new Greenland Group Suzhou Center tower in Wujiang, China. The 358-meter skyscraper is slated to become a new landmark for the city, and it features a gleaming eye-like central atrium - but don't misconstrue it as Sauron's dark tower. On the contrary, the project's luminous span fills the structure with daylight and works as the lungs of the building to bring in fresh air. SOM has worked especially hard on this design to create a finely-tuned building that optimizes energy use while maximizing structural and mechanical performance.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHeb2Q2Syyh8DQ_Tj8MHeI2DHl8sAVYUWuo0bfS7Z0VkTJ4sw45P4sFkOHTfgPy9wkGx3XWmHkbjTh9p0pZV0hiRAzuOAFYVVWnvcZPGweHSkXJ_HTN26MftGNy6CyH51uc3CzCvIwyNtn/s1600/suzhou_center_04.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 343px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHeb2Q2Syyh8DQ_Tj8MHeI2DHl8sAVYUWuo0bfS7Z0VkTJ4sw45P4sFkOHTfgPy9wkGx3XWmHkbjTh9p0pZV0hiRAzuOAFYVVWnvcZPGweHSkXJ_HTN26MftGNy6CyH51uc3CzCvIwyNtn/s400/suzhou_center_04.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5699441370757607250" /></a><br /><br /><br />Chicago architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP has designed a building with a lung. You might prefer to call it a 30-story operable window, or a sky atrium.<br /><br />Regardless, Skidmore Design Director Ross Wimer said it is a new approach to ventilation and energy conservation in high-rise buildings. Wimer said the innovation is in the scale; the technique of using open air shafts and natural light goes back to such Chicago landmarks as the Rookery and the Santa Fe Building, works of Daniel Burnham.<br /><br />The “lung” is planned for a 75-story building Skidmore is designing for Wujiang, China. Called the Greenland Group Suzhou Center, it essentially splits in two on its higher levels, then reunites as one structure near the top. The design creates a slice through the building that Wimer said will help it breathe. The space will be computer-controlled to open in the warm weather, providing a deep penetration for daylight and a fresh air source. Skidmore said the building should save 60 percent on energy use compared with a conventional high-rise.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMfnA_nZy5PXChi9NNOhgswDEuPqTQmhJg2YOHFg0DDclV4Rs4vCg6aIloNSH6JEYwSo6OiPq1HQE1z8FbYkzbzwZOwX22Cz6DhzaXnxhu4aeD2RS7ICV3A5ineCPp-AnoiuIgMpFMG8WC/s1600/suzhou_center_03.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 288px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMfnA_nZy5PXChi9NNOhgswDEuPqTQmhJg2YOHFg0DDclV4Rs4vCg6aIloNSH6JEYwSo6OiPq1HQE1z8FbYkzbzwZOwX22Cz6DhzaXnxhu4aeD2RS7ICV3A5ineCPp-AnoiuIgMpFMG8WC/s400/suzhou_center_03.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5699441365946643186" /></a><br /><br /><br />Wimer said the design is suited for the building’s mix of uses. On the widest floors on the lower levels are offices, while a hotel and residences will be on the higher floors, where the lung provides additional views that justify premium prices.<br /><br />The building, about 50 feet taller than the John Hancock Center, would be the sixth project Skidmore has handled for Greenland Group, a private firm that enjoys favor from the government. China’s central planners are encouraging growth in Wujiang, a city of about 800,000 near Shanghai.<br /><br />Wimer said ground for the site alongside Taihu Lake already has been broken. In the Chinese system, that means the order has gone to Skidmore to start on the detailed work for the building. Wimer said the design should be finished in less than a year, at which time construction can start in earnest.<br /><br />Also per the Chinese custom, Skidmore has not been given a budget to hit. No wonder U.S. architects vie to go over there.<br /><br />Any chance Skidmore will apply some supertall razzle-dazzle to the skyline of its hometown one of these days? “That’s my dream,” Wimer said. “These 14-hour flights to China are pretty exhausting.”<br /><br /><br />Sources: http://www.suntimes.com/business/10070245-452/new-skidmore-design-has-30-story-window-to-help-skyscraper-breathe.html , http://inhabitat.com/som-unveils-soaring-daylit-tower-for-chinas-greenland-group-suzhou-center/Joe Trainorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03963030295031426970noreply@blogger.com0