Fotografia tomada en el acuario de Santa Cruz de Tenerife
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Ziya Imren Architects Releases Plans to Integrate Nature and Urbanity in Turkey
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Ziya Imren Architects has released its plans for Re-Naturing the Kizilirmak in Turkey, a new eight-kilometer-long urban design project around the Kizilirmak River. As the longest inland river in Turkey, the Kizilirmak, also known as the Red River, “has been regarded as a hard edge to the city due to access and safety concerns.” After recent municipal advancements, many areas around the river have been opened to a design competition with the goal of integrating the riverfront into the existing city fabric.
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In an effort to stray from the typical dichotomy of nature and city, the project focuses on the integration of nature in three parts, borrowed from the writings of John Dixon Hunt—unchanged nature, nature changed by human intervention, and designed landscape. Thus, by overlapping these typologies of nature, the connection between the river and the city can be better facilitated, creating “a permeable interface” between the two landscapes.
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The project additionally features the integration of culture, specifically the culture of the City of Sivas, which borders the river, via a “path of culture,” which will connect the city center and riverfront. This path will include a high-speed rail system, intended to not only connect nature and the city but also to connect Sivas to other cities in order to facilitate growth.
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Natural wetlands will be preserved within the project, and are expected to likewise preserve important landscape and biodiversity. “Our basic principle is minimizing the amount of intervention to nature and maximizing the socio-cultural contribution which will bring the presence of water into the daily living of the city dwellers,” said the architects. Thereby, water is intended to become a main focal point of the city, as well as a place to host new programmings, such as urban agriculture of varying scales and social centers for sport, entertainment, rest, and more.
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- Architects: Ziya İmren Architects
- Location: Sivas, Sivas Merkez/Sivas, Turkey
- Architects In Charge: Tolga İltir Architects
- Design Team: Ziya İmren, Tolga İltir, Koray Velibeyoğlu, Erhan Vecdi Küçükerbaş, Tamara Nazari, Cengiz Çağatay Akbaş, Çağrım Koçer, Hamidreza Yazdani, Mehmet Şefik Yasavul, Merve Dadaş, Orhan Asan, Özgü Özcan, R. Sena Kocakaya, T. Çelinay Şahin
- Urban Planners: Koray Velibeyoğlu, Hamidreza Yazdani
- Landscape Designer: Erhan Vecdi Küçükerbaş
- Project Year: 2015
- Photographs: Courtesy of Ziya Imren Architects
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Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula arctica) by Diddi Sig The adult…
Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula arctica) by Diddi Sig The adult birds return to the colonies in late March or early April, and initially spend a long time on the sea in large flocks called rafts.
Where possible, the birds excavate a nesting burrow into the soil. Sometimes they will make use of Manx shearwater or rabbit burrows. Where burrowing is not possible, the birds nest under boulders or in cracks and cavities in cliffs.
The birds defend the nesting site and its immediate surround, and use it in subsequent years. Puffins lay only a single egg, in late April or early May. Both parents incubate it for 36-45 days, and they share the feeding duties until the chick is ready to fledge.
The fledging period is very variable, ranging from 34 to 60 days, depending on the area and year.
Adult birds desert their young shortly before they are ready to leave the nest. The timing of the breeding in puffin colonies is highly synchronised, and so the departure of all adults takes place within a few days.
The young birds leave their nest burrow and make their way to the sea, normally under cover of darkness to avoid predators. In some colonies, for instance in Iceland, nearby bright lights confuse the young birds, which then fly into the light and end up on city streets.
Puffins usually reach breeding age at 5-6 years old, and often live for 20 years.
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St. Trinitatis Church / Schulz und Schulz
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- Architects: Schulz und Schulz
- Location: Nonnenmühlgasse 2, 04107 Leipzig, Germany
- Architect In Charge: Prof. Ansgar Schulz, Prof. Benedikt Schulz
- Area: 5500.0 m2
- Project Year: 2015
- Photographs: Simon Menges
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From the architect. The consecration of the church ended the odyssey of the Leipzig parish community that has lasted over seventy years. Its permanent return to the centre of the city is manifested in the construction of the new Trinitatis church.
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The new parish church is develop out of the organism of the surrounding city. It obtains its presence through its high church hall, church tower and inviting openness of the parish courtyard. In a prominent location across from the New Town Hall the Trinitatis church define a site that respectfully integrates into its surroundings and forms a clearly distinguishable edge along the city centre ring. The structure is now being put up with the ‚pouring‘ of the triangular plot of land and the concreting of the poles of the church hall and church tower on opposite sides. The parish courtyard was cut into the area between the two highpoints to create a new central meeting location. The silhouette of the new church marks the beginning of the further development of the underused neighbouring urban area.
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The Trinitatis church is primarily characterised by light, space and material. With its interior height of over 14 metres, the church hall enables a transcendent spatial experience that is further intensified by the large skylight located in 22 metres high. Daylight of varying intensity falls from this along the rear wall of the altar in the church hall and defines the atmosphere of the hall. Another important element is the large ground-level church window (by artist Falk Haberkorn) that produces communication between the community and the city as if through an interactive store window. It opens and delimits the church hall at the same time while serving as a targeted opening as an interface between the world of the profane and the realm of the sacred.
Floor plan
The church hall is situated crosswise and creates sufficient room for the arrangement of the community in an open surrounding area whose optical and scenographic centre is the chancel. Partitions separating the community were eliminated, additionally opening the chancel as a multidimensional space usable for various forms of liturgy. Merely a gentle slope surrounds the chancel and permitting optimal visual perspectives. Across from the large cross on the rear wall of the altar (by artists Jorge Pardo) is a second cross carved into the large wall area above the gallery as a negative imprint that opens the church hall to the light of the setting sun in the west. The gallery offers room for the organ, the choir and additional pews to be set up here.
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Product description. Facade made of Rochlitz porphyry. By using Rochlitz porphyry is continuing a tradition of construction of the city of Leipzig, such as with the Old Town Hall, and of the region, such as with the Benedictine Priory of the Holy Cross in Wechselburg. The horizontal layering of the various heights firmly anchors the building with the plot of land and allows it to symbolically grow out of the ground. The projections and recesses in the layering convey the rich
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MAD Architects and Asplan Viak Release Feasibility Study for Urban Dock Development in Norway
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MAD Architects and Asplan Viak have collaborated to create a feasibility study for Visjon Dokken, an idea for a 25-hectare urban development dock that could become a new center for “residential, business park, commute, and energy sufficient systems.”
Located in Bergen Harbor in Norway, the project would be the second largest development in the country and could house 3,500 dwellings and 8,000 workspaces, 37,000 square meters of public parks, as well as a connected walkway system and bicycle paths.
The initiative to start Visjon Dokken was made based on the manifest that has an ambition of building 10,000 new dwellings in the city center within the next 10 years. To be successful, local, regional, and governmental authorities must find solutions and collaborate with Bergen builders and building planners. For Bergen to successfully handle the expected growth in population, it is important that we also make space for new dwellings in the city center stated the architects.
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The construction of Visjon Dokken hopes to revitalize Bergen city center, by promoting the area as a natural focal point and urban mixed-use environment.
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Courtesy of Mad Arkitekter and Asplan Viak
Courtesy of Mad Arkitekter and Asplan Viak
In order for the project to be developed, an existing cargo port at the site must be moved elsewhere. While Visjon Dokken does not offer suggestions for where the port should be moved, it does suggest possibilities for new ferry and cruise ship docks.
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How To Use Your Powerful Mind To Be Positively Happy
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“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking” – Marcus Aurelius
Our mind is so complex that we can forget how powerful it is.
It can either make or break us at any given moment. It has the power to take us to the stars or throw us off a cliff.
According to the American Foundation For Suicide Prevention, suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the USA, with 42,773 Americans dying by suicide every year.
The mind is the root cause of suicide, with over 90% of cases attributed to mental illness.
With a concerted effort, we can achieve a state of continuous happiness by teaching the mind to think positively.
HAPPINESS IS NOT IN THE FUTURE
“People look to time in the expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future” – Eckhart Tolle
How often do we say to ourselves ‘I’ll be happy when the bills are paid’. Or ‘When I was younger, things were better’?
We are all guilty of falling into the trap of believing that we will feel better in the future. Or we reminisce about how much easier life was back in the day.
The truth is, happiness has little to do with circumstances. Mental constructions of future and past have a huge impact on our current state. In reality, though, they have nothing to do with how things actually ‘are’ right now.
Like a ping pong match, our mind will bounce back and forth between ideas. It says ‘I’ll feel great when I lose the excess weight’ or ‘I was happier when I ate whatever I wanted’. It cannot make a decision and we wonder why we are confused.
Perception of a circumstance, not the actual circumstance, determines our happiness. If left unchecked, your mind will come up with countless reasons to be unsatisfied.
To enjoy a more balanced life, we must first notice disempowering thoughts. We must then redirect these thoughts and turn them into empowering ones.
The future is simply a dream-like projection of mind-made fantasies. It is not real. It exists only in your head.
If you want to think about the future, consider it in a positive way and then take constructive action in the now.
STOP PRESUMING
How often do we mentally grumble about things we have no idea about?
Sitting in rush hour traffic, we jump at the opportunity to lash out when traffic isn’t moving. We speculate and blame the event on all manner of made up ideas
We scowl at the stranger who doesn’t reciprocate a “thank you” when we hold the door open for them. Mentally we judge them and label them as rude.
Could it be possible that the person who walked through the door was in a daze after hearing some terrible news? Is it too difficult to consider that the traffic is lousy because of an accident?
Instead of accepting something as it is, we create a negative story. I call this ‘Speculation Nation’.
Our patience dissolves or we get angry at nothing but a speculative thought.
We become unhappy and lose our power as the mind complains. It wants to know what justification the other person has for behaving a certain way. It struggles when things don’t act in accordance with its own personal values and rules.
Many battles could be avoided If people understood that we all have a different set of values.
Just because a person appears to be rude to you, doesn’t really matter.
It is only your interpretation of the events that have the power to determine your happiness. Choose to interpret them positively.
Choose to interpret them positively.
“There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so” – William Shakespeare
LOOK FOR HAPPINESS
In every moment we have a choice. We can choose to resist the way something is or we can accept the way it is. After all, it ‘IS’.
There are 2 ways to deal with something that is not going as planned.
- Mentally complain and tell yourself a phantom story about how dreadful it is.
This will lead to a lot of pain and suffering.
- Accept the way it is and look for the positive and beauty in the situation.
This leads to peace and joy.
Shift your perspective from discontentment to acceptance. Surrender to the way it is because it can be no other way. It is what it is and no amount of complaining will change it.
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” ― Lao Tzu
Relinquishing control and making way for acceptance will relieve you of tension and frustration.
In its place, there will be spaciousness. Burden and negativity will no longer rule you and positivity will break through.
Every situation, no matter what it is, can be perceived as either positive or negative.
Choosing to accept, or to see the advantage in a circumstance, will free you of suffering. In turn, this will better allow you to explore the beauty and magnificence of life.
GIVE THANKS
Showing gratitude is one of the most powerful ways to find happiness. Gratitude opens up the heart and sends positive energy to those willing to receive it.
What we send out, is returned ten-fold.
In the book of the film ‘The Secret’, Rhonda Byrne talks about how she used gratitude to turn her entire life around.
Her relationships, finances, and health were spiraling out of control. She felt like she was on a collision course with destruction.
Once she realized that her thoughts were controlling her life, she began expressing gratitude. She became thankful for all that is good in her life.
Instead of complaining about money issues, she would give thanks for the things she had. Surely enough, she was able to turn around her entire life. She shares these teachings in ‘The Secret’ series of books and films.
“Remember that your thoughts are the primary cause of everything.” ― Rhonda Byrne
Expressing gratitude really means that we are expressing happiness.
Gratitude puts us in a state of positivity. We feel uplifted and energized and happiness becomes the natural byproduct of these feelings.
According to this study, gratitude and happiness have a direct impact on emotional and interpersonal benefits.
MAKE HAPPINESS THE GOAL
Adopt these keys points to ensure that you are constantly in a state of well-being.
- Give up trying to control every situation, it’s impossible.
- Let go of the past and stop expecting the future to make things better. Now is the only time you can experience joy.
- Accept the way something is. If you can change it, great. If you can’t, Hakuna Matata (it means no worries!)
- Give up speculating. You have no idea why she didn’t turn up for the date. Maybe she had a car crash!
- Look for the good in all things. Search for beauty, it’s everywhere.
- Play, be silly, be creative. Let your hair down.
- Adopt an attitude of gratitude. Go out of your way to give thanks.
- Consistently following these simple steps will ensure that you think powerfully and positively.
You will literally rewire your brain so that it remains in a state of bliss so that happiness becomes a way of life.
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The snowiest place in Oregon, Crater Lake National Park’s winter…
The snowiest place in Oregon, Crater Lake National Park’s winter blanket glows in the fading light of a purple sunset. Despite the frosty atmosphere, the lake rarely freezes. The last complete freeze was in 1949. Photo by John Dale (http://ift.tt/18oFfjl).
Sassen, Kimmelman and More Discuss the Urban Evolution of Migration in reSITE’s Small Talks
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“What is your city? And what do you need to make that entire city yours?” These are some of the questions being posed by co-founding principal of nArchitects, Mimi Hoang, in reSITE’s Small Talks series. The videos, produced and edited by Canal180, were recorded during the reSITE event that took place in Prague earlier this year, titled “Cities in Migration.” Reiterated again and again by several of the interviewees is the fact that migration is, in the words of founder and chairman of reSITE Martin Barry, “a natural human phenomenon; everyone is moving to cities to improve their lives.”
Since 2011 reSITE has exploded into an international platform; a democratic process to “integrate people in a 21st century modern, contemporary, sustainable way,” says Barry. Michael Kimmelman, architecture critic at the New York Times, calls it “a place where people can come from different parts of the world and have a conversation; often a conversation that doesn’t really take place in public.” Saskia Sassen, Urban Sociologist Professor at Columbia University and the London School of Economics, reiterates that the conference “is really wonderful because it is bringing so many different perspectives.”
The “migration question” is not a new one; Sassen makes a point of saying that we have always seen “this on-going influx of migration” in big cities. However, as Kimmelman reflects, “architects maybe lost touch in many cases with that role that they played more clearly, even a century ago, trying to shape society.” He continues to say that now is the time to reiterate these beliefs that “will shape the way the cities of the future looks.” Watch the series to hear about the rest of their thoughts.
Michael Kimmelman, NYT
Saskia Sassen, Columbia University
Martin Rein-Cano, Topotek 1
Joana Dabaj & Riccardo Conti, Catalytic Action
