Estonian interior architecture students designed this floating timber pavilion to provide a shelter, sauna and campfire for visitors to the Soomaa National Park wetlands during flooding (+ slideshow). (more…)
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Putting up your own business needs a lot of planning, particularly when it comes to strategies. Aside from having a reliable source of capital and an interesting product, you also need to know the basics of reducing business risk.
If you are a young entrepreneur who is yet to start a business, here are 6 things you can do to minimize the risk of business failure.
Before you put up your business, make sure to do some research first of its possible pros and cons. Do not focus solely on your potential earnings, but also concentrate on the factors that can prevent you from achieving your goals.
You can reach out to people with successful business ventures or talk to veteran businessmen to get an idea of the possible problems you could encounter along the way.
See Also: From Startup Idea to Successful Business: 7 Questions to Ask Before You Pursue That Venture
It is very important that you’re aware of the rules and regulations that govern your business. This way, you can easily abide them and avoid any actions that can violate them.
Knowledge of the basic law can also help you protect yourself in case you get accused of illegal acts.
In a world where information can easily get passed through social media and the internet, it is highly important that you maintain your business’ good reputation.
Before the launch of your business, try to utilize social media for promotion. Encourage a lot of potential customers and patrons by offering services and deals that are hard to resist. With a lot of competitors in the market, you need to make your business stand out.
Having an established reputation can help ensure that you have steady and loyal customers. Make sure to avoid any circumstances that would give your business a negative image to the public. With the advent of social media, one negative post about your business can immensely hurt your reputation.
You have a lot of options when it comes to insurance companies. This makes it critical that you conduct research first before signing up with anyone. Make sure that you choose a company that can give you the most coverage and reasonable payment plan.
Insuring your business can give you security and peace of mind in the event that something negative happens. Take, for example, General Liability Insurance.
It provides protection in the event that you, your employees or your products have caused injury or property damage to a third party. Property Insurance, on the other hand, offers protection from fire, vandalism, smoke damage and theft.
See Also: What Do Insurance Brokers Do for You?
Although achieving success for a short period of time is great for the business, it’s more important to focus on how you can keep it running for a long time. No matter how big or small an achievement is, it can help if you can document it.
By documenting, you’ll be able to take note of both your business’ success stories and failures. Your notes will serve as lessons that can help you in reducing business risks and failures.
If your personal capital is not enough and applying for a loan is inevitable, make sure that you go with a company that has the least interest and the most manageable payment plan. You’ll have a hard time reaching your financial goals if most of your income will only go directly to your loan.
Before you borrow money from anyone, try to scout for the best loan company that you can get. It can also help if you can keep your business’ financing needs at its minimum.
If the expenses aren’t necessary, you may cut those from your budget. Learn to manage your resources very well so that your business’ income can be maximized and used to its full potential.
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Well-known architects are easy to admire or dismiss from afar, but up close, oddly humanizing habits often come to light. However, while we all have our quirks, most people’s humanizing habits don’t give an insight into how they became one of the most notable figures in their field of work. The following habits of several top architects reveal parts of their creative process, how they relax, or simply parts of their identity. Some are inspiring and some are surprising, but all give a small insight into the mental qualities that are required to be reach the peak of the architectural profession—from an exceptional work drive to an embrace of eccentricity (and a few more interesting qualities besides).
Charles and Ray Eames were prolific in their work, producing over 900 multidisciplinary designs. The Musical Tower was one of these, a 5-meter high rearrangeable xylophone tower. For new staff members, the entire first day would be spent playing with this one toy. This creative initiation was important for the Eameses, who believed that spending a day listening to and observing someone’s musical experiments provided valuable insight to their personality.
“Architectural art cannot be created in an office-like environment”, Alvar Aalto once said. Taking this to extremes, Aalto was known to have “drank like a fish,” and boozing in the office was common—aiming, of course, for an artistic bohemian air rather than unproductive drunkenness. [1]
Architects have long been associated with unusual sleep patterns, with some more unusual than others. Leonardo da Vinci, Buckminster Fuller and Frank Lloyd Wright were all polyphasic sleepers, taking short naps every three or four hours instead of a long night’s sleep, while Louis Kahn would spend his daylight hours teaching, napping until 10:30pm, and then beginning a “day” of work at his office. [2]
Climbing a Norwegian mountain may be considered an odd team building exercise for architectural firms, unless your firm is Snøhetta. For Snøhetta, whose founding inspiration and namesake is a mountain said to house Norse gods, an annual trip to climb that very mountain makes a lot more sense. The purpose of the trip has changed as the firm has grown: “We use the time to talk about what we’re doing and where we want to go,” says co-founder Craig Dykers. “We used to go just for the sake of climbing but now it’s got to have more meaning.”
There are many stories of Zaha Hadid that suggest the most important person in her life was herself. Examples include being several hours late for a Vogue photoshoot in her own home or only furnishing her apartment with objects she designed herself. While many of those in her inner circle have attested to her kind heart, this attitude of self-love was also also the heart of her headstrong philosophy; in her own words, “I never took no for an answer. I never sat back and said ‘walk all over me, it’s OK.’”
The inspirations behind Eileen Gray’s designs were often people she loved. The hallmark of this was perhaps the ill-fated E.1027, built originally for her then-lover Jean Badovici. Even the name itself was “code for an affair of the heart.” E stood for Eileen, while the numbers corresponded to letters in the alphabet for J, B and G, signifying Jean, Badovici and Gray—her name “holding his.”
Frank Lloyd Wright was said to have an “inexhaustible supply of creative energy” that allowed him to maintain a habit of only beginning drawings for clients a few hours before they were due to present. His wife also reported a similar inexhaustible supply, but one of sexual energy. She claimed that even at eighty-five, he could go at it twice or thrice a day. She even sought medical advice and was offered potassium nitrate, thought to decrease a man’s sex drive, but decided against it in the end. [2]
When asked what part of her work brought her joy, Denise Scott Brown admitted to essentially creeping on people using her building. Visiting the Perelman Quadrangle at the University of Pennsylvania, she observed thirty or so students sitting on the rising steps “like bees in a hive,” just as she had envisioned. Taking her to be some “old lady in a skirt” who they did not know, they simply looked puzzled and could not understand why she was grinning broadly at them. [3]
I.M. Pei has noted how over his long career he has come to rely less on drawing on paper, and more on drawing in his mind. For Pei, much of his best thinking is done in bed at night with the lights out, sometimes with a trip to the bathroom to scribble ideas down. If it didn’t look as good on paper as in his mind, it would be back to bed to think some more. This nocturnal process meant that even for him it was hard to distinguish the sources of his ideas, which came to be increasingly dream-like.
You are what you eat, or so they say. So for an architect who championed color, it’s perhaps not surprising that Luis Barragán was known to order entirely pink-colored meals, such as sherry-drizzled melon halves.
We all have preferred ways to blow off steam and for Ricardo Scofidio, of Diller Scofidio + Renfro, that includes a 1963 vanilla Porsche. Having also owned a Saab 96, Alfa Romeo 2000 GTV and Jaguar XK150, Scofidio is a clear car enthusiast but also creatively credits the mind-clearing abilities of pure speed.
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The City of Montreal has selected KANVA’s IMAGO as the winner of Vivre le Chantier Sainte-Cath, a competition seeking to maintain access to and usage of St. Catherine Street, downtown Montreal’s primary commercial artery, as it undergoes a four-year construction period. The construction includes infrastructure developments—enhancements to underground infrastructure, new public transit systems, and increased pedestrian access—and while segments of the street will be closed to car traffic, pedestrian paths and all businesses will remain open during construction.
To mitigate the negative impact of construction on the street, the competition sought to alter perceptions of the construction, minimize disruptions of routine city operations, and inform users about this and future developments. In stark visual contrast to its surroundings and the adjacent construction work, IMAGO’s bold design reinforces St. Catherine Street as a destination in Montreal.
The project is composed of a series of modular catenary arches formed by biomorphic inflatable structures anchored to concrete construction fences. Designed to reflect the growth of an organism beginning from an embryo, the structures shelter, animate, and integrate with the construction site. The intervention can adapt to the work being performed on each section of the site, serving as the liaison between pedestrians and the road, sidewalk, or underground construction.
IMAGO’s design is evocative of the anatomy of a butterfly wing, a robust but flexible composite of many delicate parts. Diagonal members form diamond-shaped voids, some of which depict the transformation of St. Catherine Street with historical images, while the rest ventilate the installation. Due to IMAGO’s modularity, the final installation can be modified according to its budget by adjusting the number of components, while the inflatable modules can be easily handled and stored.
News via: KANVA
In this edition of Section D, Monocle 24’s weekly review of design, architecture and craft, the show explores how wood is being used creatively at every scale by designers and architects today. From the “timber terrazzo” of London-based designer Conor Taylor, to the four protected (yet threatened) wooden escalators at Sydney’s Wynyard Railway Station, the episode questions how innovative designers are, or need to be, with this age-old tried and tested material. Finally, the show visits Folkhem in Sweden – a construction company who believe wood “to be superior to conventional alternatives in almost every respect, from construction time to acoustic properties.”
Find out more about Monocle 24’s Section D here.
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