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What To Do With All This Stuff
Baggage, baggage, baggage! We all have so much stuff! – emotionally, physically, spiritually. Some days we feel like we’re walking around with a hundred pounds of the world on our shoulders and it’s hard to move at all. We are dragged down by past memories, current issues and future struggles. We’re tied down by rent payments, mortgages, and impulsive shopping habits. At the end of the day, what can we do with all this stuff?
In this article, let’s try to tackle it all at the same time, because many of the principles applied to physical baggage and emotional baggage can often cross together in the ways we as human share and work with each other.
1. Hoarding personal memorabilia
Let’s face it, we all have a problem with letting things go. Ever try to clean out a messy closet? Why does it take so long? You start with one box and find some old pictures. It takes 30 minutes to look at them, check the back, take digital pictures of them so you can show your aunt her old haircut from 1995, etc. Wow, what a trip down memory lane! It goes on for every box. You find old movies, journals, clothes. Nostalgia is a powerful emotion that we love to cherish when it creeps up, and we have no intentions of letting those feelings go when we have them.
This is why it’s so hard for us to let things go. We love comfort. We love the comforting feeling of looking at things that give us such great emotions of youth or of times past where we didn’t have the present issues to worry about. This is the root of hoarding.
There’s an easy solution too. If you can admit that you are suffering from a bit of hoarding, but don’t want to part with your belongings, the solution is simple – disperse. Call your friends and family who are also a part of your memories and donate the memorabilia to them. They’ll get a kick out of it too, and you won’t have so much stuff taking up precious closet space!
2. Hoarding old things
The same goes with your old belongings that don’t have the same emotional accessory. How about your old clothes, cooking wares, decorations and furniture. Dare I invite you to go look in you or your parent’s garage? There might be tons of stuff there that’s still good but has simply been replaced.
You would be very surprised how easy it is to donate all of your old stuff. This summer I got rid of almost 10 bags of clothes alone. Ask your friends or search on Google for a local pick up service that will pick up your stuff for you. There you go. No running around, no carrying heavy objects. The local Salvation Army or similar association undoubtedly has a pickup service in your neighbourhood. It’s as easy as giving them a call and scheduling a pick up time. There are those less fortunate who are in need of your old clothes. Don’t waste a second, especially if it’s in the winter. Do your part.
3. Help others
We’ve all been through the worst – breakups, financial deprivation, loss. Life isn’t always easy, but we learn how to deal with it! If you’ve been through some emotional situations, you know hard it is and hopefully you also know how to recover from it. You’re a warrior! You know there is light at the end of the tunnel.
However, not everyone does. For the young people around you, a serious breakup could be their first experience with a failed relationship, and the effects are tolling. We all remember our first breakup, and we all remember people who helped us get through it.
For young people, a serious emotional event will always be their first one. Kids experience things with such vivid clarity because it’s their first time for everything. That is what our job is as adults. We are leaders and offer guidance – or we should.
Use your experience of overcoming obstacles as fodder to help others get through theirs. It’s a perfect way to take your emotional baggage and turn it into a good thing. Share the love, and everyone can end up smiling together.
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Experience the “Brutal Faith” of Gottfried Böhm’s Pilgrimage Church in Neviges
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This exclusive photo essay by Laurian Ghinitoiu is featured in the fifth issue of LOBBY. Available later this month, the London-based magazine—published in cooperation with the Bartlett School of Architecture—examines the theme of “Faith” as a fervent drive, a dangerous doctrine, a beautifully fragile yet enduring construct, an unapologetic excuse, a desperate call for attention and a timely consideration on architectural responsibility.
In 1986 the Pritzker Architecture Prize announced their first German laureate. In a speech at the ceremony in London’s Goldsmiths’ Hall, the Duke of Gloucester suggested that the prize “may not guarantee immorality,” inferring, perhaps, that not even the most prestigious award in architecture could compete with an œuvre so compact, focussed and enduring as that of Gottfried Böhm – a “son, grandson, husband, and father of architects.”
The Pilgrimage Church in Neviges (a small hamlet close to Dusseldorf, Germany) was conceived in the context of an invited international competition—issued in 1962—and a progressive client: the Archdiocese of Köln and, to be precise, Archbishop Josef Cardinal Frings. The resulting structure, which required 7,500 cubic metres of concrete and 510 tons of steel-reinforcing bar—along with its Via Sacra and surrounding buildings—is one of the most decisive, significant and unsung spaces of the twentieth century.
Courtesy LOBBY Magazine. Image © Laurian Ghinitoiu
Courtesy LOBBY Magazine. Image © Laurian Ghinitoiu
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Courtesy LOBBY Magazine. Image © Laurian Ghinitoiu
This photo essay was originally published by LOBBY Magazine in advance of their fifth issue, Faith. You can find out more about the issue, which launches on the 30 September 2016, here.
About LOBBY #5: “Faith”
People, no matter how different, have always felt protected under the aegis of a common belief and have united to accomplish the unthinkable. But faith can too easily become a fossilised creed, begging the question, at what point do inspiring and everlasting morals turn into inescapable dogmas carved into old stones? In 21st Century architectural discourse, where does our faith lie? The fifth issue of LOBBY aims at a critical reflection on the theme of “Faith” as a fervent drive, a dangerous doctrine, a beautifully fragile yet enduring construct, an unapologetic excuse, a desperate call for attention and a timely consideration on architectural responsibility. Exclusive features in the issue include interviews with Caroline Bos (UNStudio), Jason Surrell and Maurizius Staerkle-Drux.
LOBBY #3: Meaningful Defiance in a Disengaged Culture
‘Defiance’ manifests itself in many forms: riots in Baltimore, makeshift housing in Rwanda, Pink Floyd in Venice and plants growing where they ought not sprout. To defy the norm is an act of rebellion and in architecture, doubly so.
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LOBBY #2: Projecting Forward, Looking Back
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LOBBY: The Spectacle Of The “Un/Spectacle”
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Szeged Cathedral Renovation / 3h architecture + Váncza Muvek Studio
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- Architects: 3h architecture, Váncza Muvek Studio
- Location: Szeged, Dóm tér 6, 6720 Hungary
- Architect In Charge: Katalin Csillag, Zsolt Gunther (3h architecture), László Váncza (Váncza Művek Studio)
- Area: 6655.71 sqm
- Project Year: 2015
- Photographs: Tamás Bujnovszky, Balázs Danyi
- Project Architects: Tamás Békesi, Zsuzsanna Kolláth, Orsolya Pataj
- Project Team: Dorottya Garay-Kiss, Anna Sára Kiss, Zsombor Fehér, Zoltán Lang, Márk Váncza
- Structural Engineer: Balázs Puskás (TERRAPLAN’97 Mérnökiroda Kft.)
- Sanitary Engineering: János Bukovics (G&B Plan Kft. Épületgépész Mérnökiroda)
- Electrical Engineering: Gábor Kun (Hungaroproject Mérnökiroda Kft.)
- Fire Protection Engeneering: Béla Nagy (Tűzterv Bt.)
- Construction Details: Gergely Dobszay dr, László Kakassy dr (Kakassy és Társa Mérnöki Kft.)
- Acoustics: Andor Fürjes (aQrate Kft.)
- Landscape Architecture: Enikő Kapás (Departer Kft.)
- Preliminary Work (Art History): Ferenc Bor
- Main Diagnostician Coordinator: Csaba Németh (3C Kft.)
- Soil Mechanics: Endre Kelemen Ács (3C Kft.)
- Structural Diagnostics: János Laczkovics (3C Kft.)
- Building Structures: Gergely Dobszay dr, László Kakassy dr (Kakassy és Társa Mérnöki Kft.)
- Picture–Restorer And Glass Mosaic Diagnostics: Mária Brutyó, Kornélia Forrai, Ildikó Jeszeniczky
- Main Contractor: West Hungária Bau Építő Kft. Kalotherm Zrt. konzorcium
- Archeology: Orsolya Lajkó, József Szarka (Museum Móra Ferenc, Szeged)
- Picture Restorer: Dóra Verebes, András Seres (MentArtis Kft.)
- Lead Glass Restorer: László Hefter, Brúnó Hefter (Hefter Üveggaléria és Stúdió Kft.)
- Glass Mosaic Restorer: Flóra Verebes, Ferdinánd Horváth (MentArtis Kft.)
- Metal Restorer: Attila Páhi (Cellin-Art Kft.)
- Wood Restorer: Mihály Győri (Framart Kft.)
- Stone Restorer: Attila Kovács (Ancien Bt.)
- Silicate Restorer: Klára Csáki (Csáki és Társa Bt.)
© Balázs Danyi
From the architect. In the international discourse on contemporary architecture it seems to be evident that intervention into historic buildings is always a sensitive issue. This is particularly the case when the project is not only a simple renovation, but there are alterations or additions to the original building – it is always difficult to find the balance between past and present, between the attitude of sheer preservation of a monument and the voice of contemporary architecture. Additions copying eariler times and contemporary impacts that ignore their context are the two extremities to avoid – the desireable solution lies somewhere in between. There is no ultimate recipe, the questions need to be asked and answered in every particular case. 3H architercture has refurbished the Cathedral of Szeged in southeastern Hungary and managed to find solutions worthy of note.
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Ground Floor Plan
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The city of Szeged is located in flooded area and underwent many reconstructions during its history. The challenge was to explore the borders in the historically densely layered urban structure and bring new spirit to the long-used spaces. Being built at the dawn of modernism, the church is an interesting mixture of historical and modern structures, styles, and construction methods – the current architectural concept has made an attempt to clarify the relationship between the original building and the additional layers. Besides restoring the original conditions, the architects considered the building as an open artefact consisting of layers of different eras, to which they added the contemporary layer as equivalent in value. As a result, one can sense a gentle progress in the case of the alterations of the already excisting parts, while the newly constructed elements bear a strong contemporary touch, nonetheless relate to their context.
© Tamás Bujnovszky
The main contradiction that needed to be cleared was between modern and historical architecture’s relationship to ornament and decoration. The densely decorated interior of the cathedral stands in direct contrast with the modernist aesthethics, which got rid of any decoration and finds beauty in clearly visible structures and in the material itself. Although contemporary architecture does not stick rigidly to these century-old principles, applied decoration of the past is still alien to it. The main advantage of the current changes is that they did not ignore decoration entirely, but rather keep them under control: the additions in the liturgical space all fit into the context, show, however, a gentle shift towards a sleeker style – they bring a bit of relief into the thickness of the space. In case of the new furniture, the ornament is integrated into the material.
© Tamás Bujnovszky
Section
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In other spaces, like in the crypt an inverse solution comes into effect: the formerly abandoned spaces were given a new quality. The heavy pillars received unified white plastering and rhythmical illumination, the alteration of light and shadow gives contemporary aesthetics to the old space.
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These solutions shape the spaces in an organic way toward the needs articulated in the present – the refurbishment did not dissolve the building into fragments, but rather managed to develop it continually, adding meaning and functions relevant to contemporary users.
© Balázs Danyi
Politics Live – readers’ edition: Friday 23 September
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I’m not writing my usual Politics Live blog today so, as an alternative, here’s Politics Live: readers’ edition. It is intended to be a place where you can catch up with the latest news and find links to good politics blogs and articles on the web.
Please feel free to use this as somewhere you can comment on any of the day’s political stories – just as you do during the daily blog. It would be particularly useful for readers to flag up new material in the comments – breaking news or blogposts or tweets that are worth passing on because someone is going to find them interesting.
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Wilkinson Eyre adds mirrored laboratory and sports hangar to Dyson’s countryside campus
Wilkinson Eyre has added an assortment of new buildings to the headquarters of technology company Dyson, aiming to create a campus to rival “those in Silicon Valley and Singapore“. (more…)
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