Terrace BC River Boat Days Fireworks
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Riverboat Days by GregoryRinaldi by GregoryRinaldi
Month: April 2016
Level Up Your Plank Workout: 11 Planks to Build Core Strength
When you were a kid, you probably did sit-ups at school for an ab workout. But is the sit-up the best ab exercise? That’s actually a simple question: No way! There are far better ab exercises than a simple sit-up, which can exacerbate back problems and only focuses on one small area of the abdominals.
Provence, Francephoto via kaye
Sunrise in Funchal, Madeira by aoverfeldt by aoverfeldt
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Clean and Extend the Life of Sandpaper With an Old Tennis Shoe
The sandpaper on belt sanders, orbital sanders, and other powered sanders can get gunked up with sawdust and become less effective unless you clean it. If you have an old tennis shoe around, you can refresh your sandpaper in a jiff.
Universidad de Guanajuato by olemsteffensen by olemsteffensen
The main building of the University in the historic center of Guanajuato City.
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— Magical Krumlov — by PetrKubat by PetrKubat
Ormuz Specialist Eye Clinic / Loucas Zahos Architects
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- Architects: Loucas Zahos Architects
- Location: Caloundra QLD, Australia
- Project Team: Con Zahos (Design Architect), George Hazell (Project Architect), Thomas O’Shea (Project Architect)
- Area: 600.0 sqm
- Project Year: 2015
- Photographs: Christopher Frederick Jones
- Structural Engineer: GEO Consulting
- Services Engineer: Meinhardt Group
- Landscape Architect: Conlon Group
- Main Contractor: Gray Construction Group Pty Ltd
- Site Area: 1340 sqm
- Building Size: 600 sqm
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The building has been conceptualized around a series of courtyards, giving private outlook and amenity to staff and patients, whilst creating calm and tranquility in an otherwise busy and high volume practice.
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A colonnade representative of a “steel forest” defines the edge of the building providing an architectural veil separating the predominant glass façade and interiors from the urban fabric. Structurally, the roof form consists of simple “A” frame trusses inverted to form a flat roof, each truss individually supported by a steel column. The combination of the column repetition together with the inverted trusses, forming a metal clad raked soffit, generate the main facades of the building. The exterior contrasts with the glazed curtain wall and interiors which consist of cedar and ply.
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Sited behind the town’s main street and bound by Ormuz Avenue on the North, and a lane (Lampkin Lane) to the West and South boundaries. The western boundary has an industrious outlook, as well as an angular alignment triangulating the alignment in relation to all other boundaries.
Plan
The building is sited hard on the western boundary treated with a highly articulated boundary wall occasionally interrupted by courtyards screened from the adjacent building fabric.
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The practice of eye care requires a consultation that is extensive in time together with a procession of consultative engagements in any given visit. The building functions to accommodate this procession of events simplifying the movement and workflow in a logical sequence from arrival to completion of the consultation. Fundamental to this workflow for patients, is to provide a non-institutional caring environment, with privacy and intimacy. This is achieved by creating a number of smaller waiting areas adjacent to the relevant function. These waiting areas form the core of the internal spaces, with outlook to the landscaped courtyards, and featuring an abundance of natural light through the roof light well that occupies the entire space.
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The brief required additional commercial space and this has been generated along the main street frontage for maximum exposure and viability, with the specialist Clinic accessed via a cloister revealing the quantum of the “inverted truss”.
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Reading Between the Lines by maartentummers by maartentummers
Dramatic sunset at West Bay by chrismw42 by chrismw42
“Like something out of a dream…” was how one passer-by described the scene.
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Sig Nordal 