London Design Festival 2016: architect Alison Brooks has pushed the limits of cross-laminated timber with The Smile, an inhabitable “mega-tube” with both of its ends raised up into the air (+ slideshow). (more…)
Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for junior design architect at Büro Ole Scheeren in Berlin, which won World Building of the Year 2015 with its “vertical village” in Singapore (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse more architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
Zheleznodorojniy is a residential project visualized by Geometrium. It is located in Zheleznodorojniy, a district of Moscow, Russia. Zheleznodorojniy by Geometrium: “The apartment is located in the suburban town Zheleznodorojniy and intended for the life of a young girl. She really enjoys horse riding. For the customer the most important thing was to create an interior in which she can relax, where can invite her friends and family. Total area..
Denmark-based Studio LOKAL has won the competition for the design of a residential tower in Copenhagen, with The Hanging Gardens, its proposal for a merger of the historic brick buildings of Carlsberg with the concept of a personal garden for each resident.
Located on the site of a former vegetable market, the proposal aims to return to these homegrown roots by encouraging residents to grow their own produce in one of the tower’s gardens. Furthermore, the ground floor of the building will house a farmers market where residents can trade their own produce.
In addition to functioning agriculturally, the gardens throughout the project will handle rainwater, increase biodiversity, and serve as visual stimulation.
To improve the project’s sustainability factor, materials for the building will be sourced locally, and have been tested for compatibility with the local climate and surroundings.
The utilization of contextual shapes in new combinations gave the building a series of architectural benefits for the residents. As an example, the layout of the facade generates more than 200 balconies, without compromising the daylight intake of the apartments. The geometry furthermore shields the users from wind nuisance, while enhancing the acoustic environment of the balconies. Lastly the balconies are designed to give the highest amount of comfort, in respect to daylight and privacy – described the architects.
Construction on the project is set to begin in April of 2017.
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From the architect. Winner of a March 2011 competition hosted by the Paris Airports, on a 4 102 m² space, Arte Charpentier Architectes has designed two distinct hotels for the Accor group: a building housing an ibis Styles (308 rooms) hotel and a building for the prestigious Pullman (305 rooms) chain.
In front of the «Aéroport Charles-de-Gaulle 1» RER A exit, they have been drawn in the same motion and offer an innovative architectural design. The two buildings’ facades have been treated in the same way:
– The color and materials have been picked for their brightness
– Silk-screened glass partially covers the glassing, drawing an aesthetic and modern checker board pattern. An optical illusion is thus created along the buildings’ frames.
– Thousands of LEDs create lines along the facades; they light the buildings up day and night.
The interspace between the hotels makes a friendly court partially protected by glass shaped petal flowers, real catalyst of the urban life.
Data volumes are subtly fragmented to break with the extremely dense nature of a program of this magnitude. The fluidity of the structure’s lines and curves also participate to that goal of lightening the frame. As a part of the project the firm also designed the landscapes, from gardening to soil treatment and public spaces.
The hotels create a strong visual impact, making this project a real «urban door». They help visitors orientate themselves while renewing Roissypole’s image.
London Design Festival 2016: Bocci‘s creative director Omer Arbel has created a site-specific lighting installation for London’s Barbican Centre (+ movie). (more…)
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Rolling coverage of the Ukip conference in Bournemouth, including Nigel Farage’s final speech as leader and the announcement of his replacement
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The United Kingdom Independence Party (Ukip) starts its autumn conference in Bournemouth today. Its supporters would claim that it is the most successful party in the history of British politics. Its detractors would claim that it is one of the most shambolic and useless. Both descriptions are reasonably accurate.
Ukip has only won one national election (the European elections in 2014) and it only has one MP, but if you judge a party by whether it has achieved its key objective, then Ukip’s record is hard to fault. Just over 20 years after it was founded, it got exactly what it wanted: a referendum on EU membership, and a vote to leave. No other party can make this boast. There is an argument to be had about quite how important a part Ukip played in the EU referendum campaign itself. (Douglas Carswell, Ukip’s only MP, told the Guardian at the weekend that leave only won because Vote Leave ignored the approach favoured by Ukip’s leader Nigel Farage.) But Ukip was decisive in ensuring that the referendum was held in the first place. David Cameron has a hearty dislike for Farage and Ukip, and he conceded a referendum because he was under pressure to do so from Tory MPs, but those Tories had leverage because the Ukip started soaring after the 2010 general election and Cameron concluded that, without offering a referendum, the Conservative party could not win in 2015 (and/or he could not survive as leader).
Related: Nigel Farage aide defects to Tories claiming a mass exodus from Ukip
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Oh no! Something’s happened. Your relationship has ended. You lost something very important. Your friends aren’t talking to you as much. You had a lower score than you expected. Your house was robbed. Your love interest has lost interest. What’s going on here?
Life is a wonderful place that we only get to live once, but it sure has a way of throwing us curveballs. Our whole life is a sequence of cause and effect based off of our decision making, and some of our own decisions leave us absolutely baffled when we live through the outcomes. Why did I say that to him/her? Why did I leave my door unlocked? Why didn’t I wear a helmet that one time? Why didn’t I review that part more indepthly?
This non-stop barrage of little hills and challenges makes up a candid but memorable portion of our life. We always strive to be the best we can be, but we can’t do it without continually making mistakes and learning from them. Here’s a few things you must remember when you’re wondering all your “what if?” and “why?”’s.
We have been blessed with a brilliant mind – it can look far ahead and develop great things, and also look far behind and hinder forward motion. When we feel like we’ve made a mistake, we kick ourselves in the pants for a long time over it! People struggle for years or decades over the partner they separated from after a bad break up and continue to punish themselves mentally for it. We know it’s unhealthy but it seems like a natural part of the process. Ok, you’re allowed to think about it for a bit at the beginning. But you HAVE to stop right away! You can’t change the past and there’s no more what ifs.
People are incredibly critical of themselves when it comes to an offense on their pride. We’ve all been in a situation like this: John, who never loses anything or so he says, manages to lose $100 somewhere one day. He has enough money, so he’s not worried about the financial merit. But it’s the offense to his self-prescribed pride that he will bear for the rest of the day. “How could I be so stupid!” plays on repeat through his head all day, and he becomes overly sensitive to the rest of his actions for the day, at the risk of making other silly mistakes as an effect.
We have to get over our inner lion and remind ourselves that we all make mistakes, even if we feel faultless. We have to laugh it off, and not let it take ourselves away. If you become too anal about one thing, other things will start falling apart. Find your balance.
You said sorry a million times, but nothing is getting through. She won’t take you back. You worked for months or years on the relationship but the dead-end is finally here. All that work for nothing.
Well it sounds rather morose, but it’s almost a part of life! We have all had some kind of relationship that failed at some point, whether it was our first love or our most recent one. And we have gotten quite good at getting over it – or maybe we haven’t. That’s the problem. Here, we feel like we lost the fabled “the one” and we will never have another chance. It is an overbearing emotion.
Then what do you know. It’s months, years or even days later. Our feelings have relaxed and suddenly someone new is coming into our life. Look at this! Suddenly it’s “another chance” when not so long before we felt our whole world coming to a close. Some people don’t find their true soulmate until they are 60. Some people don’t discover their wealth or purpose until they 60. Trust me, life is long, and there will be plenty more chances.
Recent headlines in the Olympics were the two young divers from the Philippines who completely crashed their performances with astounding scores of 0. But what made headlines wasn’t their awful demonstration, but their emotions afterwards. Despite being so far from home, at a once in a lifetime event, they carried on the rest of their time with smiles and joy. They didn’t care that they certainly weren’t getting any medals – they were having a good time and were happy to have just had the opportunity at all.
Enjoy all the opportunities you had, even if it didn’t quite go as planned. Maybe the next one will. Maybe the next one won’t – who cares. Don’t worry about it too much – just enjoy the history you will leave behind anyways.
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