Choosing a business location and signing the lease is a big decision. Here are 14 questions to ask to be sure you choose the best location and lease terms you can get.
Month: September 2016
6 Simple Ways to Build Your Confidence
Confidence is vital in business. This article explains 6 simple tips to boost your confidence and help you achieve your goals.
Luminaire to auction off glass objects by Nendo, Tadao Ando and Campana brothers
Bezos Angela Davis School / archi5 + Tecnova Architecture
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- Architects: archi5, Tecnova Architecture
- Location: Bezons, France
- Area: 4338.0 sqm
- Project Year: 2016
- Photographs: Sergio Grazia
- Client: SADEV 94
- Engineer: EPDC
- Economist: MEBI
- Environmental Engineer : IETI
- Kitchen Engineer: Alma Consulting
- Acoustic Designer : LASA
- Cost: 10 000 000 € HT
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The construction of the new Angela Davis school in Bezons takes part in the creation of the new city center. The project, by its function of active urban facility is a key part of this city center. The goal of this construction is double : it must be a functional and sustainable public facility and also a milestone of this new neighbourhood. The school plot is an important link between the new center and the rest of the city.
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Plan
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On the east side, the one story building with its vegetated roof evokes the roofs of the surrounding houses. The school integrates itself softly to the existing urban grid. The landscape is prolongated all along the plot to the South until the Edouard Vaillant street and come inside the school under the zinc North façade.
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The stone elevation creates inaccessible terraces reminiscent of suspended dry stone gardens and creates the promontory of the elementary school courtyard. This mineral stratification reminds castles, an évoque un château fort, a reassuring and timeless building, full of nature. The new school has a urban façade on Francis de Pressensé path with transparency on ground floor and suspended zinc «box» on first floor.
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© Sergio Grazia
The bridge over the entrance spans the planted walkway which is integrated to the building as a natural protection and presence behind the façade. The rows of high plane trees on South and North are preserved, prolonging the park on E. vaillant street. On the secondary path, the façade is carefully designed with a succession of aluminum vertical pieces, playing with sunlight.
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The entrance space is large and sheltered, sha- red between infant and elementary school. With the nature coming inside the school through this entrance, the pupils are feeling protected, imagination is smoothly taking place.
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The refectory of each school are both on the ground floor but independant. The multimedia pole is located just between infant and elementary and keeps its autonomy. In addition to the pedagogic garden, there is a greenhouse on first floor, permitting to make gardening pedagogic activities all year.
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All circulations are naturally lit through large and coloured windows. Real materials, durable and robust are used. The courtyard façades are cladded with Larch wood and protected from rain by a roof overhang. This envelop is also efficient, airtight, and its conception includes a maximal insulation to minimize energy losses. The rainwater management is optimized with vegetated roof and terraces. All windows and doors are wood and aluminum.
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Thermal inertia of the building, strengthened by its concrete base, is valued by night ventilation for summer comfort. The pedagogic greenhouse is used to pre-heat the school air during winter.
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Build Angela Davis school is write a new page of Bezons’ history. In addition to integrating the urban options of this new borough, we propose to extend them and add ours, to enrich and bring an ambitious renewal for the city. This school keeps the promise of simple and clear daily ope- ration, a sustainable building. It will be a learning place which will leave its place to the imagination.
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Ten projects worth knowing by London Design Medal winner David Adjaye
London Design Festival 2016: with the news that David Adjaye has won this year’s London Design Medal, we’ve rounded up some of the British architect’s most memorable designs, from his long-awaited Washington museum to a range of sustainable underwear (+ slideshow). (more…)
Why We ❤️ Public LandsAmerica’s public lands give us so…
Mount Rainier National Park by Rip Rippey (http://ift.tt/18oFfjl).
Lake Clark National Park by National Park Service.
Paria Canyon Vermilion Cliffs National Monument and Wilderness by Bob Wick, BLM.
Why We ❤️ Public Lands
America’s public lands give us so much – from epic views that leave you breathless to new adventures and a lifetime of memories. Now it’s your turn to give something in return. Thank a park for all they give us by volunteering this Saturday for National Public Lands Day. Plus, All public lands – from national parks to wildlife refuges and more – are FREE this Saturday in honor of National Public Lands Day.
To inspire you to get out there and give back, check out some of our favorite things about America’s public lands: http://on.doi.gov/2cTEbk6
3 Ways Not To Lose Yourself While Pursuing Success
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A lot of people believe that to achieve success, one must be ready to sacrifice some aspect of their lives. However, this doesn’t have to be the case.
What does every speaker emphasize when he or she has to inspire and motivate an audience to achieve massive success? To hustle.
Hustling is the only variable that one can control and influence dramatically. This idea by itself already makes some people uncomfortable. The fact that they would have to dedicate their lives completely to achieving their goals and have no time for anything else is a big deal-breaker for most people.
However, this potential problem of losing yourself in the process of pursuing your goals can be avoided if done the right way. Below are 3 ways to still hustle hard but at the same time not getting fed up with it!
1. Celebrate your successes
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People are always oriented to the future because they want to have a better life than their past. This mindset is important because this means that you’re working consistently to improve yourself.
Most people work really hard to achieve a goal that brings them closer to their vision, but surprisingly they fail in the celebration part. That’s right.
Ironically, people fail to celebrate the right way. They do celebrate the achievement of their sub-goals, however, excuse my language, they half-ass it! They don’t celebrate their successes enough.
When was the last time you celebrated the achievement of a goal so well that you still remember to this present day exactly what you did? If you find it a bit difficult to answer this question, then you need to make some changes in the way you want to achieve success.
It’s a lot more important how you get there than when you get there. It’s the journey — with all the highs and lows — that will make you appreciate the end-goal the most.
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Besides that, celebrating your accomplishments is also a very enjoyable thing to do so utilize every opportunity to the fullest when it presents itself to you.
See Also: 10 Habits of Successful People
2. Accept help from others
When you have a specific goal in your mind that you want to accomplish, the tendency is to shut everyone off and focus solely on the goal. Getting rid of distractions will help you become more productive, but what about the people that care about you and want to help you?
You might think that it’s for the best to pursue your dream all by yourself because you don’t want to burden them with your struggles. But, is that really the case?
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When you accept input and help from others, you have more than one ‘brain’ at your disposal. This increases the chance to acquire more valuable information and insights which can aid the process of getting towards your goal.
Instead of being hesitant to accept help, embrace it. Remember, if you want to go forward, go alone. If you want to go faster and farther, go together!
3. It doesn’t have to happen tomorrow
Stop worrying so much about the little things like not being as productive as yesterday or taking longer to accomplish things than you expected. There will be other days wherein your productivity will be incredible and you’ll get things done faster than ever.
Don’t look for overnight success ‘methods’ and don’t feel like you’re not making progress, because you simply can’t rush what you want to last forever.
Hustling hard is great and sacrifices are often demanded. However, that doesn’t mean that you can’t try to minimize those sacrifices as much as possible. Not only will you enjoy the journey much more, the quality of your life will also improve because you won’t feel like you have to give up ‘so much’ to reach your goals.
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See Also: Why You Should Forget Success And Strive to Fail
Start applying some of these tips on your journey and the road to success will be that much less stressful and more achievable.
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A Virtual Look Into Patrick Bateman’s “American Psycho” Apartment
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Patrick Bateman’s apartment from American Psycho is one of the most iconic locations in recent film history – his bone-white business card writ large. The sterile set design, by Gideon Ponte, is as impersonally creepy as Christian Bale’s performance (sure, put a telescope by the window, why don’t you; a serial killer without voyeurism just isn’t scary enough.) Archilogic’s interactive 3D model invites you to experience the apartment from the inside – without fear of an axe to the head.
The film’s satire rests heavily on materialism and superficiality, Bateman’s status anxiety elevated to existential terror and psychosis. So naturally, his own living space – it’s hard to call it a home – is subject to the same inhuman perfectionism. From a Mackintosh chair to Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona suite, every desirable piece adds to his armor of success. But in this extreme minimalism, without any trace of personality on show, the space feels hollow and empty. Even the Robert Longo artworks – oversized, black and white, and off-balance – add to the unsettling vibe.
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Is this cold, hard atmosphere intrinsic to Eighties Manhattan style? In other hands, the kitchen – with its inviting window into the living room – could be a convivial space, a social focus. In Psycho, it’s the almost industrial, stainless steel backdrop to butchery (bet you don’t remember any actual eating taking place in that kitchen; the fridge is just a decapitated head storage system). The all-white bedroom, instead of a pristine place of rest, is a surgical theater. And yet, on its own merits, it’s a desirable apartment. Take a tour and try humanizing it with your own choice of furnishings… Blood not included.
Start the tour above, or via this link. The animation will guide you through different spaces in Patrick Bateman’s apartment.
- The camera icon will repeat the animation.
- The floorplan, dollhouse and person icon change the viewing mode.
- The black menu bar on the right provides most importantly the account, interior and sharing menu.
Also, don’t miss Archilogic’s virtual looks into The Eames Case Study House #8, Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House, Pierre Koenig’s Case Study House #21 (The Bailey House), Richard Neutra’s Unbuilt Case Study House #6 (The Omega House), and Eames and Saarinen’s Case Study House #9 (The Entenza House), Julius Ralph Davidson’s Case Study House #1, Beverley David Thorne’s Case Study House #26, and A. Quincy Jones and Frederick Emmons’ Case Study House #24.
Boavista House / Pablo Pita Arquitectos
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- Architects: Pablo Pita Arquitectos
- Location: Porto, Portugal
- Project Team: Pablo Rebelo, Pedro Pita, Ricardo Oliveira, Catarina Alegria
- Area: 260.0 sqm
- Project Year: 2016
- Photographs: José Campos
- Consultant: ALFAengenharia
- Constructor: José Leal SC, Lda
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Boavista is a single-family house refurbishment in a well-known Porto street with the same name. The plot was a last century house in an advanced state of ruin facing one of the busiest streets, but offering a garden in the interior of the block.
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Floor Plans
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The width limitations of these old constructions invite the dwelling to extend its boundaries to the inner courtyard. With this, a generous area is provided, setting the entire social area through one contiguous space. The kitchen extension connects to the garden, assuming a crucial role in the relation with the exterior. A wheeled wooden island allows a flexible use of the space. A skin of wooden shutters characterize the extension façade and set different layers of shade.
© José Campos
© José Campos
In the center a light core is settled, being the stairs developed in different stages with different relations with this void. Therefore the theme of the skylight is revisited, exploring one of the main features of these old constructions and enhancing its importance on the structure of these typologies. The height of the skylight defines an unusual residential scale allowing visual relations between the three floors.
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