Which will lead to a happier and more fulfilling life, creating a detailed life plan, or taking life on as it comes? Maybe, for you, the right answer depends on what is important to you. Perhaps you have no idea if your life will be better with or without creating a road map for yourself. If you aren’t sure, you are definitely not alone. Many people don’t know if they need a life plan. The next question is, how do you find out? You can begin by looking at these pros and cons of creating a plan for your life. The Arguments For a Life Plan Here are some of the benefits of creating and sticking to a life plan. 1. You Can Create a […]
If you want to be financially savvy, you can’t just rely on saving. There’s a finite amount of money that you can save from every paycheck. Soon enough, you need to be thinking about ways to get paid more. Do you know anyone who is a master of negotiating their salary? Maybe not, but I bet you do know at least a couple of shy, awkward people who would rather swallow a whole stick of butter than ask to get paid what they’re worth. The truth is, everyone is terrible at negotiation. So the good news is: if you negotiate your salary decently, you will probably get that raise. Note that salary negotiation is not something that people are born with – it can be […]
10 Rules for Fighting Fair with Your Partner Disagreements are a part of every relationship. Anytime you spend endless waking hours with another individual there is bound to be some friction. The trick is learning how to manage those arguments and prevent them from becoming destructive, emotional outbursts. So here are 10 rules to keeping fights fair. 1. Our intention should never be to “win” a fight. If we win an argument that means our partner has lost. Instead, seek to understand where your partner is coming from and try to see their point of view. 2. Don’t name call. Don’t call your partner “stupid” or “dumb” and don’t label them as “moody” or “angry.” Instead, use such words to showcase how you feel. 3. […]
"New York Horizon" / Yitan Sun and Jianshi Wu. Image Courtesy of eVolo
A competition now in its 11th year, eVolo Magazine has announced the winners of its 2016 Skyscraper Competition: a group of three top prizes and 21 honorable mentions culled from 489 entries. The award annually recognizes the vanguard of high-rise construction “through [the] novel use of technology, materials, programs, aesthetics, and spatial organizations.” Among this year’s winners are a project that proposes digging down and creating a megastructure along the perimeter of Central Park, a skyscraper that acts as a hub for drones in future commercial applications, and a tower that takes advantage of the climate of Iceland as an ideal location for data servers.
"New York Horizon" / Yitan Sun and Jianshi Wu. Image Courtesy of eVolo
[This] proposal is a hybrid multi-functional mega structure. Not by building up, but by digging down, it reveals the bedrock (mountain) that was hidden under Central Park, and creates space along the new cliff. The ambition is to reverse the traditional relationship between landscape and architecture, in a way that every occupiable space has direct connection to the nature.
"The Hive: Drone Skyscraper" / Hadeel Ayed Mohammad, Yifeng Zhao, Chengda Zhu. Image Courtesy of eVolo
The Hive is an infrastructure project that can better meet the emerging demand for incorporating advanced Drone technology into daily life in New York City. The project was proposed as an alternative asset argument for the usage of the land on 432 Park Avenue, the project aims to create a central control terminal that hosts docking and charging stations for personal or commercial drones (unmanned aerial vehicles) in the center of Manhattan.
"Data Skyscraper: Sustainable Data Center in Iceland" / Valeria Mercuri, Marco Merletti. Image Courtesy of eVolo
Our project is a vision of how could it be a future green data center located in Iceland. A data center is often a large industrial building without a significant architectural connotation, a big anonymous container. The main issue of our project is to investigate a new morphological solution that could represent both the complexity and the importance of the building into which we keep our data. Above all, we conceive the data center’s configuration in order to maximize the use of the available renewable energies and also to allow the re-use in a sustainable way.
Honorable Mention: “Trans-Pital: Space Adaptive Skyscraper Hospital” / Chen Linag, Jia Tongyu, Sun Bo, Wang Qun, Zhang Kai, Choi Minhye
"Trans-Pital: Space Adaptive Skyscraper Hospital" / Chen Linag, Jia Tongyu, Sun Bo, Wang Qun, Zhang Kai, Choi Minhye. Image Courtesy of eVolo
Honorable Mention: “Biomorph Skyscraper: Atmosphere Of The Place” / Jayong Shim, Dailong Ma, Tai Feng
"Biomorph Skyscraper: Atmosphere Of The Place" / Jayong Shim, Dailong Ma, Tai Feng. Image Courtesy of eVolo
Honorable Mention: “Air-Stalagmite: A Skyscraper To Serve As A Beacon And Air Filter For Polluted Cities” / Changsoo Park, Sizhe Chen
"Air-Stalagmite: A Skyscraper To Serve As A Beacon And Air Filter For Polluted Cities" / Changsoo Park, Sizhe Chen. Image Courtesy of eVolo
Honorable Mention: “Cloud Craft: Rainmaking Skyscraper” / Michael Militello, Amar Shah
"Cloud Craft: Rainmaking Skyscraper" / Michael Militello, Amar Shah. Image Courtesy of eVolo
Honorable Mention: “Healing Matrix” / Jie Liu, Wen Sun, Hewen Suo
"Healing Matrix" / Jie Liu, Wen Sun, Hewen Suo. Image Courtesy of eVolo
Honorable Mention: “The Displacement Or The Revolt Of Abandoned Architecture” / Ko Anthony Chun Ming
"The Displacement Or The Revolt Of Abandoned Architecture" / Ko Anthony Chun Ming. Image Courtesy of eVolo
Honorable Mention: “Neza York Towers: Anti-Sinking System For Cities” / Israel López Balan, Gabriel Mendoza Cruz, Ana Saraí Lombardini Hernández, Yayo Melgoza Acuautla
"Neza York Towers: Anti-Sinking System For Cities" / Israel López Balan, Gabriel Mendoza Cruz, Ana Saraí Lombardini Hernández, Yayo Melgoza Acuautla. Image Courtesy of eVolo
Honorable Mention: “Towards Unity: Suturing Cyprus” / Lin Rujia
"Towards Unity: Suturing Cyprus" / Lin Rujia. Image Courtesy of eVolo
Honorable Mention: “A Core Issue Against Smog: The New Urban Air Infrastructure” / Fangshuo Liu, Xiaoyu Wu, Qianhui Liang, Jin Che, Shoda Tomoki, Pablo Mariano Bernar Fernández-Roca
"A Core Issue Against Smog: The New Urban Air Infrastructure" / Fangshuo Liu, Xiaoyu Wu, Qianhui Liang, Jin Che, Shoda Tomoki, Pablo Mariano Bernar Fernández-Roca. Image Courtesy of eVolo
Honorable Mention: “Vertical Shanghai: Hyperlocal Monument Of The Global Housing Crisis” / Yuta Sano, Eric Nakajima
"Vertical Shanghai: Hyperlocal Monument Of The Global Housing Crisis" / Yuta Sano, Eric Nakajima . Image Courtesy of eVolo
The members of this year’s Jury are: Matias del Campo [principal SPAN], Thom Faulders [principal Faulders Studio], and Marcelo Spina [principal PATTERNS].
Layers of compacted earth form walls for this house by architecture studio Blaanc, which is set in the middle of a vineyard in Portugal’s Montijo municipality (+ slideshow). (more…)
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Transmission is one of your favorite BitTorrent clients that has unfortunately been a Mac-exclusive for a long time. Now, it’s finally available for Windows.
Easter has passed and the bunny has come and gone, but the candy remains. You may have some leftovers, or you may—in your infinite wisdom—have hit up the clearance aisle to stock up on peanut butter eggs and hollow chocolate rabbits. Either way, here are some of the most delicious things you can do with your sweet haul besides just eating it.
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