Ely Court / Alison Brooks Architects


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Ely Court is a 44-dwelling mixed-tenure regeneration scheme in London’s South Kilburn Estate. The scheme demonstrates the ability of a Local Authority to lead the process of enlightened city building, by commissioning and delivering housing of the highest calibre to integrate previously segregated communities. 


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Plan B

Plan B

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Ely Court forms part of Phase 1b of the South Kilburn Estate Regeneration masterplan, a result of Brent’s rolling programme of invited design competitions for each phase. The scheme is the product of a collaboration for two sites within Phase 1b. ABA was invited by Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands to design 44 dwellings on the Ely Court site, while LDS designed 144 units on the Cambridge and Wells site to the northeast.


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Diagram

Diagram

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Three Nordic Refractions: the After Belonging Agency Discuss the Theme of the 2016 Oslo Trienniale

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In May 2016, the After Belonging Agency discussed the theme of the forthcoming Oslo Architecture Triennale—entitled After Belonging: a Triennale In-Residence, On Residence, and the Ways We Stay In-Transit—as part of In Therapy, the exhibition of the Nordic Pavilion at the 2016 Venice Biennale. The hour-long discussion, which also includes presentations by Shumi Bose and Füsun Türetken, begins with an in-depth description of how the Triennale intends to focus on the future challenges of migration by investigating how cities and architecture can react to large groups of people moving and resettling.

Oslo is Europe’s fastest growing city and it is expected that, according to statistics, half of its population will consist of immigrants by 2040. “This global circulation of people,” the Triennale believes, “creates new situations where our relationship to objects, places and belonging are changing.”


The main installation of the 2016 Nordic Pavilion as "discourse machine". Image © Laurian Ghinitoiu

The main installation of the 2016 Nordic Pavilion as "discourse machine". Image © Laurian Ghinitoiu

"In Therapy: Nordic Countries Face to Face" / 2016 Nordic Pavilion. Image © Laurian Ghinitoiu

"In Therapy: Nordic Countries Face to Face" / 2016 Nordic Pavilion. Image © Laurian Ghinitoiu

The After Belonging Agency comprises Lluis Alexandre Casanovas Blanco, Ignacio González Galán, Carlos Minguez Carrasco, Alejandra Navarrete Llopis, and Marina Otero Verzier.

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10 Reasons To Start Giving More Right Now

I don’t have enough for myself, how on earth am I supposed to give to others? Sound familiar? The more you say this, and I know you have, we all have, the more you will have not enough or less. We want to give, really we do, but where are we supposed to give from if our own well is dry? I completely understand those questions and where you are coming from. But.

Remember the law of attraction. What you think and speak, you attract. You only don’t have enough because you keep telling yourself you don’t have enough to give. Hence, you will never have enough. But it doesn’t have to be like this. start telling yourself you have lots and then start giving. Here are 10 reasons why you need to start doing that right now.

giving1. Let go of that.

Learn how to detach from desperation and hang on to things you probably should have let go of a long time ago. We often won’t give because we are in a scarcity mindset. If I give you this, I will have none. I can’t give because it ’ s mine and I have so little. Release that mindset and desperation anxiety and watch your life become abundant.

2. Go away ego.

Learn how to give from the heart. Too many of us do many things from our egos. Once you learn how to give from the heart and the ego takes a back seat, your heart will grow bigger and bigger and the ego will eventually disappear. This is not an easy thing to do because we all think we give to get something back. Don’t do that. That’s ego. What you get back is joy.

3. Better than a happy pill.

Way better. If you are sad or somewhat out of sorts, go and help someone who can’t help you back and soon you will see how happy you have become. When we give and watch someone else beam with love and happiness, the only thing that can happen is that you become happy too.

4. Open the portals.

The abundance portals. The more you give, the more you receive, even without asking or expecting anything. That is simply how it works. You have to keep the conveyor belt of abundance operating continually. When you stop, the portals close up. Think of it as replacing old with new, good with better, better with best.

5. Make new friends.

People who give tend to gravitate towards each other. They truly find each other somehow. You will find like minded people and quite possibly, if you are looking, maybe even a new partner. You will make new friends and expand your giving circle.

6. Make someone smile.

Perhaps you are giving clothes to a shelter or buying lunch for the homeless guy on the street. It doesn’t matter what you do or give, someone is going to be smiling because of your generosity and that is simply the best. Knowing that your random act of kindness and giving had such a profound effect on another human being who, quite possibly, is a stranger.

7. A new start.

For someone. If you are donating clothes, for example, to a shelter, these items of clothing may be just what someone needs to go find a new job, start a new life, feel better about themselves. Your generous donation has the potential to be life changing for someone. That’s awesome right there.

8. The world is in need.

We need more healers, helpers and lovers. We are in need of loving and caring people who will help each other, no matter what. If you don’t think you can make a difference, think again. It only takes one random act of kindness to start a domino effect. It can start with you. Be a world changer.

9. Achieve legendary greatness.

It’s in you to be legendary and awesome. If not you, then who? If you don’t think you can then you never will. Of course you can. We all can. Do big things, little things, any things just do something that contributes to the growth and well being of humanity. When you start, you will soon see it is addictive and you won’t want to stop.

10. Good night.

You’ll sleep better. Just knowing that you helped someone somewhere in your neighbourhood or in the world is going to help you have peace of mind and when you lay your head down at night to go to sleep you will have loving and caring thoughts of your great act, knowing that because of you, someone is smiling and happy.

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Abandoned Church IV by Biancio85 XVIIth century abandoned…

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UV Arquitectos Design a Bright and Colorful Home in Hermosillo, Mexico

Plural completes plastic-clad house in Slovakia with inner and outer layers



A small pool is slotted between the inner and outer layers of this house near Bratislava, which was designed according to Italian Renaissance principles by local firm Plural (+ slideshow). (more…)

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In Progress: Louvre Abu Dhabi / Jean Nouvel


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  • Architects: Jean Nouvel
  • Location: Abu Dhabi – United Arab Emirates
  • Project Year: 2016
  • Photographs: TDIC

Roof Plan with Dome

Roof Plan with Dome

Roof Plan without Dome

Roof Plan without Dome

All climates like exceptions. Warmer when it is cold. Cooler in the tropics. People do not resist thermal shock well. Nor do works of art. Such elementary observations have influenced the Louvre Abu Dhabi. It wishes to create a welcoming world serenely combining light and shadow, reflection and calm. It wishes to belong to a country, to its history, to its geography without becoming a flat translation, the pleonasm that results in boredom and convention. It also aims at emphasizing the fascination generated by rare encounters.


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It is rather unusual to find a built archipelago in the sea. It is even more uncommon to see that it is protected by a parasol creating a rain of light. 


Elevations

Elevations

The possibility of accessing the museum by boat or finding a pontoon to reach it by foot from the shore is equally extraordinary, before being welcomed like a much-awaited visitor willing to see unique collections, linger in tempting bookstores, or taste local teas, coffees and delicacies.


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It is both a calm and complex place. A contrast amongst a series of museums that cultivate their differences and their authenticities. 

It is a project founded on a major symbol of Arab architecture: the dome. But here, with its evident shift from tradition, the dome is a modern proposal. 


Dome pattern

Dome pattern

A double dome 180 meters in diameter, offering horizontal, perfectly radiating geometry, a randomly perforated woven material, providing shade punctuated by bursts of sun. The dome gleams in the Abu Dhabi sunshine. At night, this protected landscape is an oasis of light under a starry dome. 

The Louvre Abu Dhabi becomes the final destination of an urban promenade, a garden on the coast, a cool haven, a shelter of light during the day and evening, its aesthetic consistent with its role as a sanctuary for the most precious works of art.


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Reza Aliabadi Designs a Contemporary Home in Scarborough Bluffs

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Opposite House is a private home located in Scarborough Bluffs, in the outskirts of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Completed in 2016, it was designed by Reza Aliabadi. Opposited House by Reza Aliabadi : “The Opposite House, is a commissioned private residence located on the Scarborough Bluffs, closer to the east edge of the Greater Toronto Area. The clients, a professional couple who both work from home and enjoy an active home..

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A.S.R Headquarters Renovation / Team V Architectuur


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  • Architecture And Interior Design: Team V Architectuur
  • Advisor Constructions: Aronsohn Raadgevende Ingenieurs
  • Advisor Installations: Deerns
  • Advisor Building Physics And Fire Safety: DGMR
  • Cost Expert: ABT/Tebodin
  • Contractor: Building combination Archimedes
  • Subcontractors: Oskomera (facade), Verwol (interior and furniture)
  • Project Management: AT Osborne
  • Landscape / Garden Design: Michael van Gessel
  • Graphic Design Of Signage: Reynoud Homan

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The appearance of the office building has changed to an astonishing extent. It now looks spacious, light and airy. Only the thick concrete pillars give away that this is not new. The climate façade makes the building lighter and more energy-efficient. Winter gardens – bright open spaces with mature trees – have been laid out between the outer and inner façade. The highest winter garden admits daylight to the newly added underground conference centre. Floors have been cut away to create voids, admitting plenty of daylight to what used to be dark and gloomy worksites and creating a very attractive, open working environment.  


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The façade design combines good looks and well-thought-out technical performance. The orientation of the windows on each floor varies, giving the building a layered appearance reminiscent of the original façade. At the same time, the slanting façade sections ensure that reflected daylight penetrates far into the building and guarantee optimum circulation of ventilation air through the cavity. Moreover, the light-weight prefab facade cladding can be mounted quickly, cleanly and without undue noise. 


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Unique, Surprising Overall Concept

The architecture, interior design and garden lay-out combine to form a strong overall concept, which is worked out to the finest detail. The slanting lines of the façade are repeated in the walls of the conference units, the edges of the atria with built-in worksites and the design of the tree planters. The building is divided into three wings, which are given individual colour schemes – green, yellow and purple – for ease of orientation. These colours are repeated in the floor and wall finishings, and even in the choice of the plants in winter gardens and roof terraces. These features distinguish the design of the a.s.r. offices from that of a conventional office building, giving it a surprising, instantly recognisable look. 


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Open Office

The design of the work environment is based on flexibility, collaboration and casual meetings. The 2,800 flexible worksites provide room for 4,000 users. There is a great diversity of workplaces, like enclosed spaces for concentrated work or making phone calls, comfortable lounge areas for informal meetings and flexi-work tables for collaborative work. The public area, with a coffee bar, brasserie, conference centre, work lounge and restaurant, offers a varied and inspiring work environment. 


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© Herman de Winter

Plan 2

Plan 2

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Sustainable and Energy Efficient

The building has been rated BREEAM Excellent for sustainability. During construction 98% of the demolition waste has been recycled. For example, concrete rubble has been used to lay out bicycle tracks. Not only the building has been renovated, also a great deal of the old furniture has been redone and reused. With the new facade and building installations, including the climate ceiling, user responsive lighting and heath-cold storage, energy consumption has been reduced by over 50%. In addition, 1,200 solar panels have been placed on the roof. Green facades, birdhouses, roof gardens and beehives contribute to the local ecological structure. All these measurements allow the renovated buidling to compete with newly constructed buildings regarding sustainability. 


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