Month: September 2016
Why doesn’t sunrise make a sound? A vision so beautiful seems to…
Why doesn’t sunrise make a sound? A vision so beautiful seems to deserve a musical overture. But maybe, overwhelming your sense of sight is enough for dawn at Shenandoah National Park in Virginia. Photo by N. Lewis, National Park Service.
OMA’s Taipei Performing Arts Center Facade Unveiled
OMA's Taipei Performing Arts Center Facade Unveiled. Image © OMA by Chris Stowers
The scaffolding obscuring the facade of OMA’s Taipei Performing Arts Center has begun to come down, exposing the aluminum exteriors of the spherical Proscenium Playhouse and the Multiform Theatre for the first time. Upon completion, the experimental building will feature a looped public pathway, flexible auditoriums and unique stage environments. Construction on the building is now moving full speed ahead, with an expected opening date in June 2017.
Continue on for more images of the in-progress building.
OMA's Taipei Performing Arts Center Facade Unveiled. Image © OMA by Chris Stowers
The Taipei Performing Arts Center will house three theaters in total: the 1,500-seat Grand Theatre, the 800-seat Multiform Theatre designed with a flexible layout for experimental performances and the spherical 800-seat Proscenium Playhouse, which serves as perhaps the most iconic element of the facade. The three theaters will be joined together by a transparent central cube containing shared backstage and technical facilities that will allow the theaters to be used independently or in tandem, expanding the potential for experimental theater pieces.
OMA's Taipei Performing Arts Center Facade Unveiled. Image © OMA by Chris Stowers
OMA won the design competition for Taipei Performing Arts Center in January 2009, with construction beginning in 2012.
Read ArchDaily’s interview with OMA partner-in-charge David Gianotten here and follow the links below for past coverage of the building.
OMA wins competition for the Taipei Performing Arts Centre
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OMA’s Taipei Performing Arts Center breaks ground
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OMA’s Taipei Performing Arts Center (TPAC) Tops Out
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House in Braga / AZO. Sequeira Arquitectos Associados
© Nelson Garrido
- Architects: AZO. Sequeira Arquitectos Associados
- Location: Braga, Portugal
- Area: 515.0 sqm
- Project Year: 2011
- Photographs: Nelson Garrido
- Authors: Mário Sequeira, Alfredo Machado
- Team: Nuno Veiga
© Nelson Garrido
From the architect. Located in the periphery of the city of Braga, this lot has 815 m2. It is placed in a hillside and it is in the privileged visual alignment for the city. With a total of 3 floors, the housing was thought of form to adapt it the declivity of the land, allowing a good functioning and joint of all spaces, preventing a construction with too much impact, keeping with involving a balanced relation allowing the creation of a useful exterior space.
© Nelson Garrido
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© Nelson Garrido
The intermediate floor is composed for the social zone, constituted of the kitchen, main room and room of games. These spaces become related with the exterior zone where if it finds the swimming pool and the garden. The superior floor is destined to the private area of the building and groups in three suites and an office. In the inferior floor it is placed garage. The totality of the volume is composed for the white color, and the contrast of the glass with the black metal of the doors and windows.
© Nelson Garrido
What Is Your Star Wars Personality Type?
I don’t think there are many people who are not familiar with this movie. Every adult from my generation was once a child/teenager who had dreamed to be a Star Wars character.
Let’s see what the way you make decisions and the way you perceive the reality are telling about your personality. And which Star Wars character and personality type you match up with.
Take now this quick and easy quiz and find out what is your Star Wars personality type!
What Is Your Star Wars Personality Type?
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Leave a comment below to tell us what you’ve got!
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Floating Restaurant in New York Takes the Dining Experience to New Heights
Courtesy of Big Foot Developers
New-York-based Big Foot Developers have unveiled the designs for The Floating Restaurant, a glass cube restaurant that will hang between two smokestacks at the historic Glenwood power plant over the Hudson River in the Yonkers neighborhood of New York City.
With forest on the riverbank, the water below, and green space inside the restaurant, the project aims to blend architecture and nature while having a minimal impact on the view of the site.
The floors walls, and ceiling of the construction will be made of glass, and the entirety of the restaurant will be suspended by tension steel cables.
Courtesy of Big Foot Developers
News via Big Foot Developers.
Wee Studio completes crowdfunded treehouses on the edge of a woodland stream
This pair of stilted wooden huts are set among poplar and hawthorn trees in a stretch of woodland at the foot of Mount Wuling in Beijing‘s Miyun District (+ slideshow). (more…)
UK architects predict crash in workload in face of Brexit uncertainty
Brexit crisis: architects have reported concerns over the future of their businesses in the first major survey of confidence levels since the EU referendum. (more…)
💙 Aurora Tree on 500px by Arnar Sigurbjornsson, Mosfellsbær…
💙 Aurora Tree on 500px by Arnar Sigurbjornsson, Mosfellsbær ,… http://ift.tt/1WxeepT
5 Ways to Get What You Want in Your Relationship
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Do you ask yourself “How can I get what I want in this relationship?”
Well, we’re happy to let you know there’s a simple trick to it. The trick is that you would be happy with a number of outcomes. You just don’t know it yet.
It’s just a question of finding the result that works for both you and your partner.
The vast majority of times, that place exists; you just need to find it.
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Here is a secret that very few people, even many therapists and counselors, know: you can find that place without struggle.
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You know how it usually works. You take position A; your partner holds position B, an obviously stupid and inferior position, and you can’t understand how they can be so dense as to not understand that you are right and their position is so wrong…and so it goes, until one person, severely wounded and out of ammunition (we hope you realize this is metaphorical) concedes, but the pain of defeat remains, ready to add fuel to the next conflict.
You can avoid all that. Really!
1. Be Flexible
How likely is it that your first opinion on a subject is the best, most perfect and only solution in the entire world? If your partner has that attitude, too, there’s no hope. You have to be open to other possibilities. What’s the best movie in the world? Hard to pick from the ones you know, but what if it’s one you haven’t even seen yet?
When you and your partner disagree initially, you have to remain open to all the possibilities, otherwise there is no route to a solution.
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2. Remember You are on the Same Side
You’re a partnership. Whether it’s FWB or marriage vows, you have reached an agreement within your relationship, and your needs are mutual, not antagonistic or opposed.
When you approach disagreements in this light and both of you can declare an intention to find a solution, the challenge is transmuted from a competition into a treasure hunt.
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3. Stay in Physical Contact
Sit together, hold hands, touch knees, whatever; there is a communication through touch that runs far deeper than words. Use it. Researchers have found that two people separated visually can communicate emotions by touch far above the expected rate. It’s an inheritance from the many species that do not use language.
4. Speak Personally
Don’t talk about your partner’s failings; speak personally instead. Say “I’m feeling cold” rather than “You pulled the blanket off me,” or “I feel Johnny needs more independence” rather than “You spoil him too much.” This removes the accusatory tone that leads to a counterattack or a defensive response. Instead, it’s a personal statement about what you are thinking and feeling, an offering of openness that can draw your partner closer.
Such a change of attitude from such a small change in language!
5. Practice Active Listening
When your partner speaks in turn (and you do give them space to get their message across, don’t you?), listen attentively to what they are saying and feeling. Don’t be preparing counter arguments as they speak; you’ll miss out on much of what they’re saying. Instead, try your best to see where they’re coming from. They have a viewpoint; it’s just not yours (or maybe it is, it’s just described differently. You won’t know till you listen!) What a chance for intimacy and an opportunity to find out how your partner sees the world!
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When you both practice all of these things, a wonderful dance can occur. Because your partner has described his or her needs and concerns, you can think of a modification of your position that accommodates them and yet is still perfectly acceptable to you. Your partner can likewise make suggestions, and the dance goes on until you both arrive at the same place.
This is magic because 1) you’ve found something that works for both of you; 2) neither person has compromised, and 3) it occurred without any conflict or bad feelings. It turns a disagreement from an emotional battle into an intimate sharing where you end up closer than ever. The more you do this, the more you see how it works and the more enticing it becomes, until there is no other way that you would have it.
We can assure you from personal experience that this method works. We have been together for 11 years without an argument, and still rejoice every day in the pleasure of each other’s company.
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