Itacolomi 445 Apartment is a private residence located in São Paulo, Brazil. It was designed by Diego Revollo Arquitetura.
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4 Challenges To Get You Back Into Shape
It doesn’t have to be January for you to consider that resolution you made last year about getting back to the gym. Just like gift giving (not only reserved for Christmas), getting back into exercise (not only reserved for New Year’s Day) has profound effects on all parts of your life. If your body is unhealthy, your mind and self esteem takes it and transforms it into negative energy. If you feel overweight or out of shape, your confidence will take a direct hit from it and your whole perspective will be jarred. W e are our own worst critics, and in a world of constant comparison we do not need to enforce it any more than it already is.
If going to the gym sounds like a chore of a task, re member that you don’t need to go anywhere to take care of yourself. There are several bodyweight exercises that can be easily googled and done at home, if you can clear out a bit of space and find the motivation. Sometimes exercising at home is the hardest thing to do because we are trying to do new things, in new clothes, in rooms we normally don’t do these things in. It only takes a few times for anything to become routine though, and if you can get past the first bump, you’re on your way to victory.
A kilometer at the gym is better than a kilometer on the couch
You’re always a lap ahead of everyone sitting down
1. Watch exercise videos
This might be out of your usual internet routine, but try to find a few health and fitness blogs or YouTube channels. If nothing can motivate you, these guys surely can. You might find tons of stories of people who went from being terribly unhealthy, to becoming an exercise idol. The first thing they had to do was start. Some internet channels are entertaining, and enjoyable to watch, and others are instructional and informative. Regardless, you will find tons of people who are very good at what they do, and will inspire you to take charge of your health.
2. Challenge your mind
Overcoming the first hurdle is always so difficult. Changing into workout clothes. Deciding what to do. Are you doing is properly? It’s always so easy take a step down and relax. Even my friends who look great have trouble get ting down for a few pushups. How are you supposed to do it? Remember that nothing comes for free. Quitting smoking doesn’t happen in one day and neither does taking care of your health. If you have an idea, grow it. If you have just an inclination, it’s something. Have patience and evolve with your mind. Who knows where your ideas will take you.
3. Charge your self esteem
People who exercise have more energy and therefore tend to be more confident people. They are on the right track to living longer, healthier lives, and possibly get to look better and have better control of their self esteem in the process. They say if you are looking for something, you will find it easier. Throughout the day, take note of healthy looking people and unhealthy looking people. Notice the trends in success, happiness, and gait. Who looks better to you and others? Finally, which category do you want to put yourself in. Mold your life and don’t be afraid to go after what you want.
4. Challenge apathy
Everyday you have two choices; continue to sleep with your d reams, or wake up and chase them
In this, our only life to live, we have two choices to make, as I’ve outlined above. We should all live a spectacular and momentous life, but it sure is a lot of work to do that! Find a way to be humble and adventurous. Where most of us live a 9 to 5 life, stand out from the crowd by keeping up with your health. Exercise and sweat a little each day and as your body and mind grow stronger, see where your spirit will take you after you’ve engaged it. Challenge the status quo of being a couch potato; don’t watch sports, do them; buy new shoes and take them for a run – and see where your feet will take you.
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Brexit live: ‘It was not our responsibility’ to have plan for leaving EU, says Osborne
- Prime minister heads to Brussels for tense summit
- George Osborne won’t contest Tory leadership; Jeremy Hunt ‘seriously considering’ it
- Labour MPs to hold vote of no confidence in Jeremy Corbyn
- Catch up with our morning briefing
9.09am BST
Good morning. I’m Andrew Sparrow, taking over from Claire.
The Labour MP John Woodcock, who is firmly on the right of the party and who is a vocal opponent of Jeremy Corbyn’s, has also been giving interviews this morning, ahead of the no confidence vote. He told Sky News that many party members who voted for Corbyn last year were now having second thoughts.
A lot of people who voted for Jeremy last year have looked at what’s happened and thought, ‘No, actually it’s not right’. And this has real consequences. We are not just talking about a man who can say nice things and who can make us feel good about our party … I think party members are changing their view, right across the country. Of course there are people who want him to stay on but many are thinking, this is the time to change.
Jeremy has surrounded himself with people who have never cared about the electoral fortunes of the Labour party. It is a project on the very fringes of the left. So you have the image of Jeremy being given a stark and dignified message at the PLP meeting and then to go and address a rally that sf full of people from the Socialist Workers party and the very hard left and people walking around wearing t-shirts saying ‘Get rid of the Blairite vermin’.
That not only suggests that Jeremy is wrapping himself in a bubble from which there is absolutely no chance of us being able to change the country and also to allow tacitly that message which dehumanises members of parliament.
8.48am BST
I’m handing over to Andrew Sparrow now, to guide you through the rest of the day.
Thanks for reading and for your comments so far.
8.47am BST
My colleague Aditya Chakrabortty has written powerfully today about the spate of racist incidents reported since the vote to leave the EU:
None of this is coincidental. It’s what happens when cabinet ministers, party leaders and prime-ministerial wannabes sprinkle arguments with racist poison. When intolerance is not only tolerated, but indulged and encouraged. For months leading up to last week’s vote, politicians poured a British blend of Donald Trumpism into Westminster china. They told 350m little lies. They made cast-iron promises that, Iain Duncan Smith now admits, were only ever ‘possibilities’. And the Brexit brigade flirted over and over again with racism.
Michael Gove and Boris Johnson peddled their fiction about Turkey joining the EU. One didn’t need especially keen hearing to pick that up as code for 80 million Muslims entering Christendom. Foregoing any subtlety, Nigel Farage said allowing Syrian refugees into the UK would put British women at risk of sexual assault. In order to further their campaign and their careers, these professional politicians added bigotry to their armoury of political weapons.
Related: After a campaign scarred by bigotry, it’s become OK to be racist in Britain | Aditya Chakrabortty
8.40am BST
European stock markets are rallying at the start of trading after two days of big falls. In London, the FTSE 100 has jumped by 125 points, or about 2%, to 6,109 – recovering some of yesterday’s losses.
Every share has risen, led by builders, who endured the brunt of the Brexit backlash. The French and German stock markets are also up by about 2% this morning, matching the recovery in London.
Related: Brexit wipes $3tn off global shares in record rout – business live
8.33am BST
Diane Abbott has criticised the process facing Corbyn today, arguing that the no-confidence motion is not part of the rules and the secret ballot unfair. She suggested the leader would do better if the vote was public, claiming that you wouldn’t even run a “parish church” in this way.
The new shadow health secretary argued that the only way forward was a leadership election, and said if Corbyn won again then the party had to fall into line.
8.31am BST
Pressed on how Labour will fare in an election, Abbott says presenter Sarah Montague is being “very Westminster-centric”. But she says “of course” Corbyn wants to win and form a government.
This isn’t about Westminster MPs, this is about the party and the country.
8.29am BST
Diane Abbott is next up on Today to back Corbyn.
She says there is nothing in the rule book that permits today’s confidence vote. You wouldn’t run a parish council like this, she says.
There’s a very good chance that Jeremy will win a leadership election. The party will want MPs to rally behind the leader. Party members will look dimly on MPs who have chosen to unleash this kind of mayhem.
8.22am BST
George Osborne confirms he won’t run for the party leadership and isn’t endorsing anyone else “at the moment”.
It could be a pro-remain candidate, he says, if that someone has a clear vision for the future relationship between Britain and the EU.
8.21am BST
Osborne: Do I think there’s going to be a postmortem about why the campaign was lost? Of course. We didn’t win. We need a plan as a country to get ourselves out of this, while respecting the decision of the British people.
We have extensive contingency plans for the financial stability consequences of Brexit … and we spent a long time preparing those plans.
8.16am BST
The chancellor says the markets will inevitably be a bit up and down:
We are in a prolonged period of economic adjustment … it will not be as economically rosy as life inside the EU. It’s very clear that the country is going to be poorer as a result of what is happening to the economy.
That decision will come under a new prime minister.
8.13am BST
George Osborne is next up on Radio 4.
He says he warned of the economic risks of leaving the EU, but will now do “everything I can” to steer the country through it.
I don’t think you can take the attitude: ‘The people have made a mistake, you need to elect a new people.’
8.05am BST
Margaret Hodge says the rally in Parliament Square last night in support of Jeremy Corbyn does not mean he should stay as leader.
Those weren’t Labour party members – they were members of the Socialist Workers party and of Momentum.
I thought I would get attacked … Actually I have had hundreds of emails from Labour party members and supporters asking me to pursue what I’m doing.
There were 9.3 million people who voted Labour in the last election – it’s their interests we have to serve.
… to do what we all know decent men do … and resign with dignity. This is the time when friends* should come up to the mark and say … this is the best interests of the party. The country needs strong opposition and a clear route forward.
7.59am BST
Margaret Hodge – who kickstarted today’s vote of no confidence in Corbyn with a letter circulated to Labour MPs last week, has been talking on the Today programme.
She says MPs might have stayed with Corbyn if he had mounted a stronger campaign in favour of remaining in the EU:
If we’d had that strong, effective, decisive leadership, that might have made a difference.
7.44am BST
Jeremy Hunt has now confirmed that he is “seriously considering” running for the Conservative leadership and the keys to No 10.
Hunt told ITV’s Good Morning Britain:
I am seriously considering it. Nominations close on Thursday lunchtime. But what I want to do now is start making an argument as to what we do next as a country. This is a big, big change and if we get it right we can succeed.
Firstly we must not invoke article 50 straight away because that puts a time limit of two years on negotiations after which we could be thrown out with no deal at all.
So before setting the clock ticking, we need to negotiate a deal and put it to the British people, either in a referendum or through the Conservative manifesto at a fresh general election.
7.39am BST
Global stock markets have suffered their biggest two-day rout ever, thanks to Britain’s shock decision to vote to leave the EU.
Yesterday, $930bn was wiped off the world’s stock markets, in a fresh bout of selling. That followed the rout on Friday, which destroyed $2.03tn of value.
Related: Brexit wipes $3tn off global shares in record rout – business live
7.30am BST
Sky News says it believes Jeremy Hunt, the health secretary, will throw his hat into the ring to be the next Tory leader (and prime minister).
Jeremy Hunt to run for Tory leader – @SkyNews sources
The Conservative modernisation project succeeded in reassuring many younger and more liberal voters – but will not be complete until we are also connecting with many who are struggling to make ends meet at the more brutal end of modern capitalist economies.
We need to unite the party after a bruising battle on the referendum – but we must remain resolved to unite the country as well. This is a time to remember our heritage as the party of one-nation Benjamin Disraeli as much as the free-trading Robert Peel – and tap into their remarkable vision and optimism for the future.
7.24am BST
Matt Wrack, the general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union, has been speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme in defence of Jeremy Corbyn.
He thinks Corbyn will win today’s confidence vote and accuses the Labour leader’s opponents of a “well-planned, orchestrated coup” – and says the wider Labour membership won’t thank them for “playing silly games”.
If people really want to consult local party activists, they will have to go to a vote. They feel they can force Jeremy Corbyn to resign without any genuine democratic process.
7.16am BST
The shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, has asked supporters of the beleaguered Labour leader not to protest outside the offices of those MPs who aren’t backing Corbyn:
Please don’t protest outside MPs offices.Staff feel threatened.Instead attend rallies & join party to have your say if you haven’t already.
Labour MPs have this evening been contacted by their whips to advise them on their personal safety as they leave parliament after the late votes. They have been advised on what entrances are being kept open for their safety, and told that anyone who is worried should contact the serjeant at arms.
Ian Murray, the former shadow Scotland secretary, asked his leader to “call off the dogs” after facing protests outside his constituency office following his decision to resign from Labour’s frontbench at the weekend.
“Momentum are people you and your office control,” he said, to shouts from others of: “They’re outside.”
7.06am BST
The shadow justice minister, Andy Slaughter, has left his post this morning, adding to the pressure on Jeremy Corbyn on the day Labour MPs vote on a motion of no confidence in him.
In a letter to the Labour leader, Slaughter writes:
The decision is my own, but taken after consultation with the officers of my local party and other members and councillors in Hammersmith. The view, by a clear majority, is that I should take this course.
6.39am BST
Welcome back to another busy day of EU referendum fallout. I’m kicking things off with the morning briefing to set you up for the day ahead and steering the live blog until Andrew Sparrow takes his seat. Do come and chat in the comments below or find me on Twitter @Claire_Phipps.
He’s likely to talk about a number of factors that he thinks were issues in the campaign, and in the debate. He will want to encourage people to think about how both the UK and the EU need to work together to make the best of the decision the British people have taken.
He will reiterate that article 50 is a matter for the next prime minister.
… agreed that there will be no informal or formal talks about an exit of Great Britain until a request has been submitted to the European council.
We don’t want this to turn into a never-ending story … So I await a communication about article 50 from the UK addressed to the EU … We should not wait a long time.
Have you got confidence in Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the parliamentary Labour party when this country is facing immensely challenging times?
Let me make it clear: if there is another leadership election, Jeremy Corbyn will be standing again and I will be supporting him.
I will not be a candidate in the Conservative leadership election to come.
It isn’t in my nature to do things by half-measure, and I fought the referendum campaign with everything I’ve got … So it is clear that while I completely accept the result, I am not the person to provide the unity my party needs.
No miracle was ever so dull. Britain tended to see the EU in prosaic terms: it had not been delivered from ignominy or tyranny by European integration. Still, it gave the union heft, a free-market prod, a universal language and its second-largest economy. It was that recalcitrant member any good club needs …
The union, for all its failings, did not deserve to be betrayed by a huckster. It will not die because of this imbecilic vote, but something broke – a form of optimism about humankind, the promise of 1989.
It is not the job of LabourList to take sides on a day like this but the party cannot go as it is. The current situation is untenable and, after a day of quickfire resignations, it is deteriorating faster than many hacks can even type …
Corbyn has repeatedly said the leader will not resign. Nor will he do as John Major did 21 years ago and issue a ‘put up or shut up’ ultimatum to rebellious backbenchers, sources have confirmed. Corbyn sees no need to demand a fresh vote, given that he was elected so decisively less than a year ago, and he does not have the power to call an election. It is only if – or, rather, when – the Labour rebels muster the signatures of 51 MPs and MEPs that they will be able to trigger a leadership ballot. It is possible this could happen as soon as today …
To govern is to choose. A potential prime minister does not have the luxury of being able to fudge it. But Mr Johnson is riding two horses that are galloping towards rapidly diverging paths. If the nation is split between young and old, rich and poor, urban and rural, then so are the Brexiteers: between the buccaneering free marketeers who want to conquer the world and the anxious traditionalists who want to pull up the drawbridge.
Mr Johnson and Michael Gove are in the first group … but they won the referendum by securing the support of the ‘left behind’ voters in the second group, who feel alienated by globalisation and angry about immigration.
I think we’ll be all right. Everyone needs to stop panicking and we’ll be fine.
Hodgson, the only man in England with a coherent plan for leaving Europe.
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Between Generic Interventions and Architecture of Relations: A Journey Through Coastal Japan
Tetra Pod / Omoe Miyako, Iwate Prefecture. Image © Max Creasy
In this article, written by Christian Dimmer and illustrated with photographs by Max Creasy, the post-earthquake and tsunami coastal architectural landscape of the Japanese Prefectures of Aomori, Iwate and Miyagi are presented and studied.
Few disasters were as complex and their implications as hard to grasp as the compound calamity of earthquake, tsunami, nuclear meltdown that hit the North-East of Japan on March 11, 2011. While over 500 kilometers of coastline were devastated, the disaster unfolded in each of the hundreds of towns affected differently depending on local topographies, urban morphologies, existing landscape formations, collective memory of past disasters and preparedness, and the social ties within the communities.
Sea wall construction at Kabanosawa, Miyagi Prefecture. Image © Max Creasy
When travelling along the rugged coast of the Prefectures of Aomori, Iwate and Miyagi—with their tiny towns and fishery ports nestled into deep coves and then entering the vast agricultural planes near the big cities of Ishinomaki and Sendai, followed by the depopulated no-go areas in Fukushima—recovery from the traumatic disaster continues to greatly vary. The challenges of reconstruction are further complicated by the fact that most of these peripheral communities, far away from the prospering metropolitan centres of Japan, have long been depopulating and rapidly ageing.
Construction View at Daimorisaki, Miyagi Prefecture. Image © Max Creasy
Despite these vastly different scales, topographies and multi-layered challenges the traveller is struck by the repetitive repertoire of generic reconstruction responses: giant concrete seawalls and tetrapods sharply separate sea and fishing communities, not heeding the beauty of the landscape, or the working routines of the fishermen; vast plateaus of new building land are created in the tsunami-endangered lowlands for detached, suburban homes that might never materialise because of a lack of economic opportunities of prospective residents; featureless high-rise housing estates are created for disaster victims in low-rise rural communities that will further isolate their traumatised, mostly elderly inhabitants.
View over Tonicho, Iwate Prefecture. Image © Max Creasy
Scattered across the vast, weed-grown emptiness of the reconstruction areas we find occasional architectural statements by luminaries like Toyo Ito, Kazuyo Sejima, Riken Yamamoto, Sou Fujimoto, Klein and Dytham among others, who, with their “home for all” project series, sought to create nodes for community life in the aftermath of destruction. Five years later, the best of these have grown into vital community centres that are heavily used, while others are merely used as storages or not at all.
This suggests that recovery is not merely a matter of rebuilding physical structures like new roads, ports, seawalls and community centers. To deal with the complex issues at hand—depopulating, and hyper-raging towns with few job opportunities and traumatised populations—new planning and design practices are needed to enable and empower communities; to cope with trauma; to develop new economic models and strategies that bring back young people from the metropolitan centres; to strengthen creativity and self-reliance.
View towards: Home for All (Oya, Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture) Otani Fishing Port, Resting Place/Workspace. Design: Yang Zhao, Kazuyo Sejima (adviser) Masanori Watase. Image © Max Creasy
Architecture has an important role to play here. It can provide for vital and lively meeting places; create civic pride and place identity by utilising local materials and crafts and involving its future occupants in design, programming, and management. However, more than just placing architecture inside a community from outside, without deeply understanding the local needs, designers must seek to integrate these structures into the social practices and the life of communities; it must be a living architecture that grows and develops.
More importantly, architects and planners need to design processes and relations within the community that foster social capital and community resilience, to adapt to the challenges ahead.
You can see the Tohoku Projects Map with post-disaster recovery projects, here, and view daily updates on Tohoku’s recovery, here.
N Village / Zai Shirakawa Architects. Otsuchicho Namiita Coast. Image © Max Creasy
Hiroki Tominaga Atelier completes Japanese retirement home featuring a huge dormer window
An oversized dormer window extends from the asymmetric roof of this house designed by architects Hiroki Tominaga and Yae Fujima for an elderly couple in Japan’s Gifu Prefecture (+ slideshow). (more…)
House Quinta Da Marinha / Fragmentos de Arquitectura
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
- Architects: Fragmentos de Arquitectura
- Location: Q.ta da M.nha, 2750-004 Cascais, Portugal
- Area: 800.0 sqm
- Project Year: 2010
- Photographs: Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
The plot is triangular and the house is set out in an “L”, forming patios and terraces on the south side, and on the west side, looking out over the pine trees and the Oitavos /Quinta da Marinha golf course. Each of the “arms” of the L-shaped structure has a distinct function: private areas (in the arm parallel to the street), and communal living areas (in the arm perpendicular to the street).
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Plan 0
The main entrance is at the intersection of the two arms, marked by a recess on the facade and a perpendicular protruding wall, coated with black “Laminan”. The service entrance is to the north and not visible from the street. The project requirements were clear: it was imperative to minimize both the build time and the need for future maintenance. The solution on the ground floor was the use of “Corian”. The façades were completely clad either in “Corian”, “Corten Steel” (on the fist floor) or “Laminan” (entrance).
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
The street-side façade (on the east side) is virtually “blind” and works as a high protective wall for the interior of the house and grounds, allowing total privacy throughout house which opens out to the south and west sides (the sides where there is sun, and views of the garden and pool). This façade is characterised by a long low window, which runs alongside a reflection pool.
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
A glass bridge was created (a sloping ramp), between the dining room and the living room to allow light through to the lower floor.
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The outer pergolas, on the southern and western façades are made of steel with a slatted wooden roof structure in IPE. On the ground floor, these terraces and pergolas surround and frame the pool area in sandy tones.
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
The exterior of the property was designed to allow for complete and easy circulation via accessible ramps.
© Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Enrique Feldman Designs a Sunny Private Residence in Hallandale Beach
431 Alamanda is a private home designed by Enrique Feldman. It is located in Hallandale Beach, Florida, USA. Photos by: Derek Latta
Cinema House / UTAA
© Park Sehwon
- Architects: UTAA
- Location: Jungni-dong, Icheon-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
- Architect In Charge: Kim Chang Gyun
- Design Team: Bae Young Sik, Jo Myung Sun, Kim Hye Jin
- Area: 129.0 sqm
- Project Year: 2016
- Photographs: Park Sehwon
© Park Sehwon
From the architect. This ‘Cinema house’ is not only life space for client’s family but also work place for client who works on film PR. The site has level difference and it is facing a small park on the south. So client wants to capture this natural view and sunshine. Additionally, he needs simple and efficient circulation with modern concept.
© Park Sehwon
Firstly, whole site is divided into two parts in order to be used more efficiently, and main building is located on the upper part. And then we attempt to control strong sunlight from south with depth of space. As for the Indoor space, because everyone has their different activity time, we located parents space on the 1st floor, and clients space (room & work place) on the 2nd floor. On the other hands each floor’s public area is connected with double story high open space near stairs. It helps the family communicate optically and auditory with respecting each private life style.
© Park Sehwon
1st Floor Plan
© Park Sehwon
Basically, every space is divided by parallel 5 lightweight wooden structure walls and it has been one of the facade elements in itself. Structure walls and slabs make some frames, and that has many different condition and function with diagonal finish. The outdoor space which is created by the depth of frames makes the space vital, and control the amount of sunshine. In technically, at the same time, diagonal walls hide some facilities. This is a way to design plan and elevation within lightweight wooden structure system.
© Park Sehwon
Each space is very simple. However, when natural sunlight is going into all of the space with different characteristics, this house has stereoscopic variation.
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The movie film is simple and flat, but when light penetrate it, we can feel abundant space.
© Park Sehwon
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