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Cornwall, England

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Iran
Tehran
Spring

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“Now I’ll be bold, as well as strong.”

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Add Sugar After You Start Whipping for Fluffier Meringue

Meringue is delicious, but only if it’s airy, fluffy, and sweet, so add the sugar after you’ve added your eggs and started whipping. It’s a simple technique to get the fluffiest meringue possible.

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The Ground Wall / FHHH friends +


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© Kim Yong Kwan
  • Architects: FHHH friends
  • Location: Gimhae-si, Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea
  • Architect In Charge: Yoon Hanjin + Han Seung Jae + Han Yang Kyu, Kim Kook Hwa
  • Area: 741.56 sqm
  • Project Year: 2014
  • Photographs: Kim Yong Kwan


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© Kim Yong Kwan


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© Kim Yong Kwan

  • Construction: Yedam (jeong Woong Park+Byung Kwon Choi)
  • Structure: RC
  • Area: 741.56 sqm.

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© Kim Yong Kwan

“We feel awe at strong power. Sometimes fear. Imagine a scene with a huge rock that is pressing down hard on the earth. In this scene, the rock is actually not you are seeing. Strictly speaking, what you are looking at is the “gravity” fighting hard against the earth.

The site is surrounded by the nature – the heavy nature. The scenery of the steep hills and basins overawe the site. Furthermore, one side of the site meets a straight expressway. Hundreds of trucks pass by the site all the time beating down the road noisily.


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© Kim Yong Kwan

Some structures show off its power by standing heavily. And some structures adopt themselves by following circumferential power. As such, the structure makes the topography of the power by standing still.
The ‘ground wall’ chose to show off its power rather than to adopt itself to its surroundings. We chose not to be daunted by the gaze of its surrounding nature; we intended the structure to be seen as rough and heavy as possible.


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© Kim Yong Kwan

Every material has its own character by the name. For instance, the name ‘concrete’ contains characters that represent ‘hardness’, ‘roughness’ and ‘heaviness’. And the name of ‘steel’ contains characters that represent ‘coldness’ and ‘straightness’. The name of material contains countless days of human progress in construction. In other words, it can be said that the name of each material contains one’s power in it – its historical power.


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© Kim Yong Kwan

The ‘power’ we intended to show in this structure is not only the shape of the building, but also the original way of construction using each material’s properties. Even in the case of a trifle part of structure, we tried not to betray the historic power of the name. We tried to find right ways to construct that respect each material’s property.

The power of architecture must not be shown through the shapes only. It must be felt through the reality of the materials and the efforts that were devoted to realization.”


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© Kim Yong Kwan

The ground wall is consisted of four difference uses. – Café, Restaurant, residence, fermentation cellar. Passing by the fermentation cellar on ground floor and restaurant at 2nd floor we can meet café and residence at 3rd floor. Following private problems by complex uses could be solved by one massive core on behind of the building. Dividing and combining, the core conducts the building from public to private.


Section a-a

Section a-a

The characterful concrete blocks on the wall used to be mentioned as the most impressing point in this building. Not only for shape, that block was born by the special need of client- “wants to keep seeing in private room.” The blocks were designed possible for control quantity of lights by arrangement, and all blocks are made by everyday manual labor.


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Remains of the Day: Giphy’s New Editor Adds Stickers and Special Effects to Images

Like any sensible millennial, Giphy is something I use every day to enhance communication in workplace. And that trend will continue as Giphy has a new editor that lets you impose existing images with other GIFs and captions.

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