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From the architect. We designed a very simple, elegant and pure facade design. The project is an extension of a school, we hung the wooden project to the ancient.
We worked with timber chestnut tree. We designed very special timbers related to the dimensions of our project. It is a a unique facade, «sur mesure».
Asymptote Architecture has revealed renderings of their design for a new Contemporary branch of the Hermitage Museum, to be located adjacent to a new residential district in the area of the former ZIL automotive plant in Moscow. Presented at the V Saint Petersburg International Cultural Forum by Asymptote Co-founder and Design Partner Hani Rashid, the museum will house a collection of contemporary art from 20th and 21st centuries.
“ZIL will turn into not just a new city district with residential and commercial real estate but will also have a museum as a center of attraction for the city residents,” said Sergey Kuznetsov, Chief Architect of Moscow.
The museum design has been separated chronologically – lower levels have been designated for art from the first half of the 20th century, while the raised-ceiling galleries on the upper floors will exhibit the contemporary collection. Public spaces will include a cafeteria, a gift shop/library, a cinema hall, a rooftop sculpture garden and a wood-clad amphitheater designed for public events.
“The Museum will be a place where in some cases you can exhibit really high sculptures or hang very unusual objects of art on the ceiling, if needed. You can do whatever you like here, it’s a space for an endless experiment with perspective,” explains Rashid.
“In the wing of contemporary art with the help of the curtain one can decorate and darken some parts of the hall. Museum curators will have vast spaces in the building.”
“We sought to create a constant up and down movement inside the galleries, one can easily get lost here, and it’s a great thing. We want to leave behind a standard paradigm of a museum where its architecture dictates certain scripts. Here the architecture is symbolic but it’s predetermined by museum functions,” the architect said.
The external envelope will consist of a double glazed, UV-resistant facade system, which will give the building a luminous, transparent aesthetic that will transform in different atmospheric conditions. Walls and transparencies have been arranged in a dynamic composition, and will be ornamented with an abstract design.
“People come to a museum to touch history, culture, that is why we thought it would be only right to saturate the Museum space with them. So it is a really wonderful idea that the cafeteria on the first floor will have an installation on Malevich’s Black Square. One can just come here for a cup of coffee, thus becoming a part of the city, a part of art,” Hani Rashid added.
The museum project is latest addition of the “Big Hermitage” project, which was seen the museum open new branches in cities worldwide, including Amsterdam, London, Barcelona, Kazan, Vyborg and Omsk.
“Each branch museum of the Hermitage has its own focus, and we decided that in Moscow it will be contemporary art of the 20th -21st centuries. The concept of this branch museum was developed together with Hani Rashid,” explained Mikhail Piotrovsky, Director of the State Hermitage Museum.
The Hermitage Modern Contemporary is expected to open to the public in 2020. Learn more about the design, and Asymptote’s residential tower in Moscow, here.
News via Archcouncil of Moscow.
From the architect. The project is located in an old jugendstil building from 1901, in the Neustadt area in Strasbourg.
This large duplex apartment occupies the former attic of the building. It has been created through the conversion of old maid rooms and the above loft that was used for storage.
Throughout the project the material palette is restrained: wood flooring, black MDF that is dyed in the mass for the fixed furniture, large sheets of thin ceramic in the bathrooms and kitchen top.
The organisation is simple: all rooms (bedrooms, bathrooms, office, family room) are located on the entrance level of the apartment, whereas the top floor is one open loftspace with kitchen, living and dining area.
The entrance hall is a double ceiling height space with skylight that opens largely onto the family room. It is positioned att the heart of the apartment distributing on one side the master bedrooms and children bedrooms, and on the other guest bedroom and office space. Here, a black box consisting of dyed MDF panels and doors act as boundary concealing bedroom, bathroom and storage spaces.
The existing varnished pinewood flooring, that had become orange-yellow over time, has been kept and renovated. The pine boards have been treated in a scandinavian fashion with lye to block the pigments and prevent the wood from yellowing, then soaped for the finish. This gives the boards a pale-white, semi-mat aspect that is very soft to the touch.
The master bedroom is conceived as a little suite with walk-in wardrobe and adjoining bathroom. Natural light flows through an added large glazed panel in the roof while the existing small windows offer a view on the surrounding park. The bathroom flooring, walls and top are made of large mat marble ceramic tiles (3x1m), while the furniture is made of black dyed MDF.
The same black MDF material, being dyed in the mass and less prone to surface chipping compared to tainted or lacquered wood, is also used for the stairs. The railings are made of laminated glass.
The upper floor is organized with the kitchen on one side, a fireplace and living room on the other, dining area in the center. Only the chimney masonry from the lower floor apartments interrupts the open plan.
The living room faces a large terrace that is partly sunken into the roof. The built in fireplace is flanked with concealed storage spaces and bar.
In the kitchen, the same MDF has been used for the woodwork and wall paneling. The kitchen island is finished with marble ceramic.
Product Description.
– Restrained material palette: wood for the flooring (either existing pine wood that was re-used with a Scandinavian soap treatment or lacquered oak in the upper area (kitchen))
Varnished Valchromat Black MDF Panels for all the fix furniture (wardrobe, kitchen, bathroom furniture) including the stairs
Laminam extra large thin ceramic tiles for all bathroom surfaces and kitchen island.
In southern New Mexico, surrounding the city of Las Cruces in the Río Grande’s Mesilla Valley, five iconic mountain ranges rise above Chihuahuan Desert grasslands. These mountain ranges and lowlands form the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument, which was established in May 2014 to protect the area’s significant prehistoric, historic, geologic and biologic treasures. Photos by @mypubliclands.
As of writing, there are over two billion social media users. This makes social media an excellent way to interact with our users. This is also why over 90% of brands use up to three social media platforms for their marketing campaigns.
One challenge, though, is how our users are found all over the globe and thus logging into their accounts at different times. The nature of social media is that everything happens in real time. Users can miss out on a lot of things while they’re not logged in.
We can’t spam our followers’ news feeds with updates 24/7 so the ideal scenario is to find out the most optimal time to post. That is the key to getting in touch with your audience.
If you can post during the best time when many users can see it, you get to receive messages, likes, and comments and respond to them as well. That’s the beauty of it. If you can make this happen, the users will most likely recommend you to their friends knowing that someone is always at the other end waiting to reply to any queries.
In this post, we will help you identify the optimal time to post on social media sites. We will look at the many different factors that can also contribute to making sure that your social media marketing campaigns will be successful.
Each social media site has their unique appeal. For LinkedIn, with over 300 million users, it is for building networks among business professionals. Over half of the members access their LinkedIn accounts through the use of their phones, checking it out at least once a week. LinkedIn is a great platform when it comes to generating leads for B2B businesses.
As for the best time to post contents on LinkedIn, the most sensible would be during Mondays to Fridays at 10 AM to 6 PM. This is the typical working schedule and most LinkedIn users log in to their accounts during this time. They don’t normally check their LinkedIn accounts on weekends or from 10 PM to 6 AM.
If you really want the best hour for posting, it is at 10 AM to 11 AM on Tuesdays. If you post during this time, you’ll have the best chance for likes, clicks, and shares.
Twitter is a popular micro-blogging site that users access both at home and at work. Most users are within the age bracket of 18-49 years old. Twitter is a great source of trending topics around the globe. Just like LinkedIn, users access their accounts usually with their mobile phones while they are on their breaks in their office or even while traveling.
The nature of tweets is that they are short-lived. That is the challenge for business.
For Twitter, the best time is from 12 PM to 3 PM. This is usually during the lunch breaks of employees. In addition to that, Wednesdays at 5 PM to 6 PM works great as well. For B2B businesses, weekdays are the best times. For B2C businesses, tweeting will work best during weekends.
See Also: 12 Awesome Tools For Efficient Twitter Searches
Now let’s proceed to the social media platform with the most number of users reaching up to 2 billion. Facebook is both used at work and home. It is accessed both through a computer and through mobile phones. Facebook is used at any time of the week, weekdays and weekends.
Don’t be surprised that users spend almost about an hour in this social media platform. So the best time to post your content on Facebook will be at 1 PM. Around 3 PM though is the best time to get more clicks. If you want to get the most engagement, Thursdays at 8 PM will do the trick.
See Also: 4 Good Reasons For Marketing With Facebook
Now you know the best times to post on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook. You can take full advantage of this information so you can make the most of your content marketing strategy. All you need to do now is to create the best content possible.
Make sure to share something that your audience will find valuable, informative, and interesting. If you can do this, you will surely get the clicks, shares, likes, and comments that you are hoping to get.
Don’t be afraid to try new things and experiment with other schedules and other types of contents. The techniques and results vary from business to business so make sure that you learn what you can about the things that will work best for your business.
Once you know the right formula, the results will soon follow. You can then replicate your technique to other sites as well as other campaigns.
The post Finding Out the Best Time for Posting on Social Media Sites appeared first on Dumb Little Man.
From the architect. The original house was built in the 1960s, in a style vaguely reminiscent of the cottage familiar to this part of Brussels. It is situated in an affluent and green residential neighbourhood in the outskirts of the city.
The former house was essentially a 2-story white brick building. It took advantage of the slope of the terrain to include a two-car garage in the basement. There was an exterior staircase leading to the main entrance on the first floor.
Strict building codes required that the geometry of the old building could not be changed, including its sloped roofs, its height and the materials it was originally built in. However, there were few regulations about “carving out” the ground or choosing the colour palette.
The intervention thus consists of renovating and extending the existing house:
I. Creating a “plinth” for the home: the ground floor of the house was extended enhancing the geometry of the building and giving the impression that it now sits on a plinth. This extension also offers a new exterior staircase linking the two levels of the garden and creating a passageway along the south façade. Finally, three niches are carved within the mass of the plinth: the garage, the office entrance, and the new main entrance.
II. Revisiting the interior: The new entrance to the home was brought down to the ground level, offering a direct and generous access for its occupants. It also completely liberated the first floor. Once inside, a new sculptural staircase carves its way up along the walls. Furthermore, the new living room is now 2 stories high.
III. Framing Nature: To give the impression of a monolithic structure, a dark coloured palette was used for the façade, the roof and the window frames. The interior walls of the home, seen as a “camera obscura”, are mainly painted white offering a perfect contrast to the outside world: the windows become framed moments of the surrounding natural landscape.
Product Description. To give an expansive view of the surroundings, very thin window frames are used. Furthermore, instead of using the traditional technique of placing the frames within the opening, they are placed on the exterior side. In certain cases, it thus seems that the frames disappear altogether.
