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A concentric and non-directional structure formed by four rigid frames, with eight continuous columns that allow for open corners in every floor and other eight that step up regularly in the two elevated levels. This is a balanced sequence in which every floor is symmetrically protected by the following one. The foot of each exterior column is slightly misaligned from the perpendicular beams, thus their heads seem to outline decorative triglyphs. The building is a monolithic piece that supports an entirely confined framework within a compact figure, producing a flat landscape from within, dense and almost mechanically stratified.
Throughout an eccentric spiral staircase there is a transition from the smallest and shaded storey, compartmented in quadrants with an access in the central crossing point, to another storey diagonally divided by a block of furniture and, in the highest level, to an open and diaphanous plan, although filled with corners, where an informal aerial life can unfold. From the top, the visual relationship with the inferior floor is imperceptible, to the point of cancelling any contact with the natural ground. This veiled logic of an inverted gravitational adjustment (a classical “entasis”) timidly emerges on top of the surroundings foliage.
In between the darkened reinforced concrete grid there is only native wood for platforms, furniture and large glass panels of fixed or sliding window frames. Perhaps, due to its artificial weightlessness, despite natural efforts descending through the very centre, along a thick core, experiences always tend to be suspended against the solid shadows of each perimeter, against silhouettes backlit by the sun, or rather because of the seduction of their immaterial reflections.
The dragons are present in legends all across the world. Nobody has ever seen one, but for this quiz it really doesn’t matter.
Let’s start the week with a good image of ourselves! Let’s imagine we are dragons! Don’t you feel good thinking you are mythical, powerful creature?
Take just now this fun quiz and find out what dragon are you!
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Artist and writer Yayoi Kusama has created an installation for the Glass House that will be on display in celebration of the 110th anniversary of Philip Johnson’s birth, as well as the 10th anniversary of the opening of the Glass House site to the public.
From September 1 through 26, Dots Obsession – Alive, Seeking for Eternal Hope will be on display, with the Glass House itself covered with polka dots. “Visitors who attend the exhibition during this time will be offered the unique experience to simultaneously see the world through the eyes of both Philip Johnson and Yayoi Kusama.”
My desire is to measure and to make order of the infinite, unbounded universe from my own position within it, with polka dots, says Kusama. In exploring this, the single dot is my own life, and I am a single particle amongst billions. I work with the principal themes of infinity, self-image, and compulsive repetition in objects and forms, such as the steel spheres of Narcissus Garden and the mirrored walls I have created.
Just as Kusama uses the polka dot to represent an individual, so did Johnson create his own universe at the Glass House by sculpting the landscape experience.
Kusama’s Narcissus Garden—which was first created 50 years ago in 1966 for the 33rd Venice Biennale—will also be incorporated into the Glass House’s 49-acre landscape in New Canaan, Connecticut from May 1 to November 30, 2016.
Additionally, Kusama’s recent steel PUMPKIN will be displayed on the hillside meadow, east-northeast of the Brick House.
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Did you know that most of the successful women entrepreneurs today suffered dismal failures before?
Not all people see failures as a turning point. For most of us, it’s generally game over. Once we see a dead end, we suddenly stop chasing our goals. However, for the women entrepreneurs in this list, failure is just a start of a success story.
Via nola.com
With a tight budget and without any know-how about food business, Ruth Fertel bought a local restaurant named Chris’s Steakhouse after seeing an advertisement of it in the newspaper. Its opening date was the same day as her birthday, so she took it as a sign and remortgaged her house just to purchase it.
After buying the restaurant, it experienced a huge loss due to frequent power outages. With a lot of hard work, Ruth was able to lift its sales. However, not long after it was able to recover from its initial loss, a fire incident brought the restaurant down.
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Ruth Fertel was not dissuaded from what happened. Instead, she found a new restaurant which she named Ruth’s Chris Steak House. In 1976, one customer asked to open his franchise of Ruth’s restaurant in the busy Highway Baton Rouge and it became the start of Ruth’s success.
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By the year 1995, she won the National Entrepreneur of the Year award of the Horatio Alger Association.
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Not all people know that Arianna Huffington got rejected by 36 publishers during the start of her career.
She comes from a Greek family whose native tongue wasn’t English. Because of her poor command of the language, her writings were severely criticized, particularly during her college years. She wasn’t even easily allowed to stand in debates during those times.
Arianna Huffington struggled with a failed marriage but this didn’t stop her from going against Arnold Schwarzenegger for the seat of the governor of California back then. Unfortunately, she was only able to get 0.55% of the votes.
Despite all the negative things that happened to her, Arianna continued pushing. She was inspired and motivated by her mother’s saying that “failure is not the opposite of success but a stepping stone to success”.
Arianna confessed that her secret lies in her astounding capability to face criticism and failure. She was also used to humiliations to the point that she was able to face and cope with them without too much difficulties.
In 2005, Arianna founded the Huffington Post with Kenneth Lerer, assuming the role of editor-in-chief. She called it as her ‘last act’ after everything she’s learned and experienced throughout her life. Until now, the Huffington Post remains to be one of the most powerful blogging platforms.
With time, Arianna was able to move past her previous rejections and went on to publish 13 books. She was also able to secure the 52nd position in Forbes’ 2014 list of most powerful women.
Christiana Wallace was the founder of the Startup Institute in New York and CEO of the fashion company Quincy Apparel. For her, the failures she experienced were more significant than the successes she got. She was incredibly powerful and broad-minded that she became successful even during the worst-case scenarios of her career.
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She remembers her proudest moment as the time when she was able to recover from her first failed company. Christiana recounted how single, broke, and lost she was during that time. She did nothing but stay in bed and watched all 7 seasons of the show called The West Wing. After the series finale, Christiana dusted herself off and went back to reality.
After she got back on her two feet, she created the successful BridgeUp: STEP. It’s a program for girls and minorities in the field of computer science to encourage them to pursue carriers in STEM.
See Also: 8 Reasons Why Women Are Better Than Men at Business
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Oprah Winfrey spent the initial six years of her life in poverty, living with her maternal grandmother. She had an extremely difficult childhood with lots of bad memories.
At the age of 9, she was sexually attacked. At the age of 14, she got pregnant but ultimately lost her child. She confessed the incident in one of the episodes of her own TV show back in 1986.
The ray of light finally hit her life when she went on to win the Miss Black Tennessee title. After her win, a local black radio station called WVOL hired her to do the station’s part-time news. She also got to be a co-anchor for WJZ-TV for their 6 o’clock evening news.
In 1988, Oprah even got more popular with the success of the show AM Chicago, which was later on renamed as The Oprah Winfrey Show.
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However, Oprah wanted to more than just work for someone else. In the same year, she launched her production company named Harpo Studios, which was taken after her name- just spelled backwards.
Aside from this project, she also co-founded the Oxygen TV channel with other media stalwarts. These series of projects gave unfathomable fame and success to Oprah.
While heading the Harpo productions, she’s also able to deliver what now is known as the top-rated talk show ever in the history of American television. The TV guide magazine in 2013 even named Oprah’s show as the 19th greatest TV show of all time.
Oprah, on the other end, went on to become the richest African-American of the last century. She’s one of the greatest philanthropists in American history and the only multi-billionaire black person in North America.
Not long ago, Kathryn Minshew used to work at the Clinton Health Access initiative. By 2010, she quit the job and started PYP (Pretty Young Professionals), which was a women’s networking platform.
She opened up the startup along with her other three co-workers. While she remained the unpaid CEO of the startup, she was paying a little to her fellow workers out of her savings.
The team was successful in redesigning the concept to the point where it was able to attract more than 20,000 users in just one year. However, although initially successful, the group split in half due to company management issues.
There was a threat of a lawsuit and a cohesive decision to split the company’s equity. In one interview, Minshew recalled how she moved forward within three weeks post the split up.
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She accepted her disastrous position and turned to whiteboard planning to figure out how badly she wanted to fight for PYP and how she was just prepared to strike it off altogether.
Minshew took a courageous step to start The Daily Muse, which is now known as The Muse. This happened in September 2011, with PYP’s entire staff and co-founders present. The publishing giants, like Huffington Post and TheCrunch, were also present to cover the event.
To her surprise, Minshew witnessed a large number of visitors that day. It even surpassed PYP’s visitors during its first month. She considered it as a fresh start and a unique achievement as the team was able to emerge triumphant amidst its crisis.
In 2012, the website had almost 2 million users coming from more than 160 countries. Its monthly growth rate reached 30% during the time.
Currently, Minshew leads The Muse with eight employees and partnerships with more than 60 companies, including Intel, NPR, Pinterest, Twitter, and Foursquare.
See Also: 10 Habits of Successful People
These women entrepreneurs proved that becoming successful in what you believe in is not rocket science. One just needs to be able to stand up after a failure and pursue one’s passion until one hits success.
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Our editors look and hundreds of websites per week. What do they admire and appreciate the most? Organization and simplicity. Sites that are not only clean, but fast. We actively search for projects to include on our platform, so it’s crucial that when we visit a website we not only know where to look, but how to access information. Filters and facets are our best friends. Typological differentiation is important, but perhaps not as important as distinguishing between built and un-built projects (“Is that a render?” is a question that comes up at least once a day).
On our own website, ArchDaily has worked very hard towards organizing the tremendous database of projects we’ve amassed over the past 8 years. In 2015 we revamped our platform to make searching much more efficient. If you haven’t tried it yet, our projects search functionality allows you to filter by architect, year, country and project type. Need to find office buildings built in 2011 in Spain? We’ve got you covered.
If you’ve ever published on ArchDaily, we therefore serve as a pretty decent site alternative ;). But if you do choose to set up your own website, we’ve selected a list of 18 firms whose lead you might be able to follow, and provided some pointers on things you should avoid.
1. Gluck +
Their website is clear and easy to navigate, and they provide really great instructional, informative videos and interactives on different aspects of their design-build process. The website also offers a choice between viewing projects as thumbnails, a list, or large images.
2. Olson Kundig
The video on their landing page is a nice touch, not just showing their projects as specific constructions but giving an impression of what it’s like to be there. It’s a very sensitive interpretation of the interaction between material and people.
3. John Pawson
Well known for ”minimalism and purity” in their projects, their website reflects their work as architects. “Less is more.”
4. MMBB
This is what getting straight to the point looks like. MMBB’s website opens not with an artistic landing page, but with an extensive array of projects immediately laid out before the viewer, accompanied by a series of filters to narrow down your search.
5. SOM
SOM’s website has a lot of information, and is thus an exercise in best practice so that the excess of information doesn’t become a problem. It has several filters for searching (location, markets, services, date, alphabetical), and when you enter into a project, it has all the information (data sheet, news, description, and so on).
Given the firm’s reputation for efficient and sophisticated design, it’s no surprise that Foster + Partner’s website is one of the easiest to navigate around. The menu is perfectly organized, and the huge number of projects and other information is presented in a way that is easy to comprehend.
The layout of Pattersons Associates’ home page is very visual and simple, using just an image and the project name. But once you click on a project you see the biggest strength of the site; the format of the presentation is beautiful with large images and drawings, which can be viewed either by simply scrolling or in a well designed gallery.
With big photos and a menu that sticks to the top of your browser window without being intrusive, the website of Colombian practice El Equipo de Mazzanti is very easy to use.
9. OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen
The projects of OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen are presented using what is effectively two image galleries side-by-side, with one dedicated to photographs and one dedicated to drawings. In this way, the practice ensures that they are always showing the substance behind their designs and not just the eye-candy offered by photographs.
10. 6a architects
6a architects’ website is clearly visual-first, with text only appearing when absolutely necessary—for example when hovering over an image. The effect of this is a clean, minimal site with plenty of visual interest.
With its combination of a well-designed menu in the top right and large-format, plentiful slideshows and galleries throughout, Bunker Arquitectura’s website offers a great balance between usability and visual impact. A nice touch is the section of the menu prominently dedicated to their “Bunkertoons,” giving a glimpse into the practice’s personality.
12. Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners
The best thing about RSH+P’s website: their project fact sheets are available in multiple languages! It’s not only useful but fun to browse. A good dose of simplicity and thorough information on projects.
13. EFFEKT
This website is an excellent example of limiting choices to increase effectiveness. On the main page, you see a large, beautiful image accompanied by just three link options. It’s only once you get closer to what you want that more information is given, aided by some very slick menus and filters.
14. FXFOWLE
The homepage of the FXFOWLE website is flashy, with a captivating 3D scrolling effect. But importantly, they also know when to drop the fancy effects, as the pages on their website that contain more information are simply organized with detailed submenus and filters.
Many of the firms already listed above are large international operations—big practices, unsurprisingly, are more likely and able to invest in their online presence. But in addition to these exemplar designs, there are many that are more polarizing; websites that, while technically flawed in some obvious ways, have designs that some people can’t resist. Interestingly, these also usually belong to large, internationally renowned firms, who have a strong enough profile to break the rules and make a statement with their web presence.
1. OMA
The layout of OMA’s webpage really isn’t the easiest to use, with densely packed information throughout. With the amount of information included in the website though, this is somewhat understandable, and a variety of filters and other techniques are on offer to help you process things, with varying success. A nice touch, though, is how they display recent Instagram images from their built projects using the location’s geotag. It’s refreshing to see a firm give that much presence to the way people are actually using their buildings.
2. BIG
You either love it or hate. Either way, the personality of BIG shines through, simultaneously making it so good (and, on the other hand, so hard to use).
DS+R’s project presentation looks great and has some convenient filters to help you search through their large number of projects. However, loading times may vary.
After waiting until 2011 (yes, 2011, seriously) before launching a website at all, Herzog & de Meuron decided to keep it old-school with a website design that clearly references early-1990s digital technology. The stark, text-based browsing system and succession of pop-up windows are certainly unique and interesting, but is your website really the place to make such a conceptual statement?
Finally, if there’s one thing our editors know more about than what makes a good website, it’s what makes a bad website. It’s often said that bad design is much more noticeable than good design, and that’s certainly true when all you want is an email address or the completion date of a project and can’t find it. Now, you may notice that some of our “best-practice” examples above occasionally make use of the techniques to avoid below–the important thing is that breaking the rules is ok in moderation, and while doing one of the things below for creative may be ok, multiple infringements start to become frustrating. So without further ado, here are a few things we truly hate to see in websites:
Sig Nordal 