Reykjanes by Helga Margrét A beautiful spot in Reykjanes peninsula http://flic.kr/p/sUGjo
Reykjanes by Helga Margrét A beautiful spot in Reykjanes…
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17 Excerpts from OMA Publications To Read and Download
Earlier this year, the Rem Koolhaas-led firm OMA launched a redesign of its website. If you haven’t already popped over to see more than three decades worth of cutting-edge, provocative architecture projects, you’ll have a good reason to now: downloadable excerpts from six of the office’s highly acclaimed books and magazines.
1. Elements (2014)
Publisher: Marsilio
Elements (2014). Image via http://www.oma.eu
Available Excerpts:
- Ramp II: Claude Parent
via http://www.oma.eu
2. Project Japan (2011)
Publisher: Taschen
Project Japan (2011). Image via http://www.oma.eu
Available Excerpts:
- Kisho Kurokawa
- Arata Isozaki
- Media Architects
via http://www.oma.eu
3. Al Manakh (2007)
Publisher: Archis
Al Manakh (2007). Image via http://www.oma.eu
Available Excerpts:
- Drawn in the Sand
- Introducing
- Cityscape 2006 Report
- Export Dubai
- Workers in the City
via http://www.oma.eu
4. Post Occupancy (2006)
Publisher: Domus d’Autore
Post Occupancy (2006). Image via http://www.oma.eu
Available Excerpts:
- Casa da Música
via http://www.oma.eu
5. Content (2004)
Publisher: Taschen
Content (2004). Image via http://www.oma.eu
Available Excerpts:
- AMO Atlas
- Go East!
- Utopia Station
- The Enemy + CCTV
via http://www.oma.eu
6. Project on the City II: The Harvard Guide to Shopping (2001)
Publisher: Taschen
Project on the City II: The Harvard Guide to Shopping (2001). Image via http://www.oma.eu
Available Excerpts:
- Evolution
- Escalator
- Relearning from Las Vegas
We included OMA’s website in our feature on the “Best Designed, Most Useful, Architecture Firm Websites“. Check out the others, here.
Pays de la Loire, France photo via yvvone
Platanenkubus Nagold / Ludwig.Schoenle
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- Architects: Ludwig.Schoenle
- Location: Nagold, Germany
- Architect In Charge: Ferdinand Ludwig, Daniel Schönle
- Area: 100.0 m2
- Project Year: 2012
- Photographs: Courtesy of Ludwig.Schoenle
- Client: Landesgartenschau Nagold 2012 GmbH
- Plants And Plant Maintenance: Helix Plant Systems
- Engineering: Brocke Engineers, Stuttgart
Courtesy of Ludwig.Schoenle
Plane-Tree-Cube Nagold
The Plane-Tree-Cube was designed as a contribution for the Regional Horticultural Show in Nagold in 2012. It was conceptualized as a long-term Baubotanik experiment within an urban context. By the help of “Plan Addition” techniques, a green cube with an edge length of 10 meters was created that, right from the beginning, had the dimension of a full-grown tree. Initially, young plane trees are arranged in plant containers on six levels. They form green walls around a space open to the sky.
Courtesy of Ludwig.Schoenle
Section Research
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In the course of time, the upper part of this space will be covered by the gradually emerging canopy, while the lower part will become more transparent and dominated by the increasingly knobby and thick trunks. During the horticultural show, the cube served as a view tower and shady retreat for visitors. After the show, the area will be developed into a new neighbourhood. The plane-tree-cube will then function as a multifunctional vertical pocket park.
Elevation Phase 01
Elevation Phase 02
Elevation Phase 03
“Plant Addition” is a technique where young plants are arranged above and adjacent to each other and connected so that they merge into a network-like plant structure. Only the lowest plants are put in the ground, all others are planted in special containers fitted with an automated system that continuously supplies them with water and nutrients. As this network of plants develops, the roots embedded in the ground grow more vigorously than those placed in containers because the ground provides more root space, which plants can exploit for additional resources. Once the inosculations have developed, the artificially created plant structure can transport water and nutrients from the roots in the ground to the upmost leaves, and the roots of the container plants become obsolete. Step by step, these high-level roots can be cut off, the automated watering system can be removed, and, finally, the living structure becomes self-sufficient. Simultaneously, the secondary growth in circumference increases the strength of the plant structure and eventually it becomes self-supporting so that the scaffolding, initially required to support the containers and the young plants, can be removed. During two test series, this concept was validated with different tree species.
Courtesy of Ludwig.Schoenle
Product Description. The drip irrigation system by Netafim is an essential element to continuously and precisely water the plants in the pots. The Airpot Growth System is an innovative pot system working with so called “air pruning” of the roots to avoid circular root growth in the pots and to foster healthy plant growth. The large format concrete plates by steico cover the whole ground floor area of the project, giving it an generous appearance.
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Video: How We Get Hooked, & How to Unlearn Our Patterns
By Leo Babauta
In more ways than we often realize, we get caught up in our stories, and get latched into mental patterns that leave us frustrated, angry, full of resentment … or cause us to procrastinate.
In other words, getting caught up is the cause of lots of our problems.
I recorded a webinar this weekend for my Sea Change members about how we get hooked into our patterns of fear, reaction, resentment, and more … and how to start changing our patterns to something new.
I’d like to share this video with you because I believe it will be helpful for many. If you’re interested in more on this topic, join my Sea Change Program today to take my newly launched video course, the Path of Fearlessness.
I’ve broken this webinar recording into two parts:
- Part I: My talk on the patterns of getting hooked, how to interrupt them, and how to form new mental habits.
- Part II: I answered questions on practicing at work and elsewhere, forgiving yourself, big past fears resurfacing, and more!
But if you want to watch or listen to the full webinar in one piece, you can download the full video here, or the full audio here.
Part I: Leo’s Talk (with notes)
You can download this video here, or download just the audio. Or watch below.
Here are the notes from my talk (video is below the notes):
- Fear has so much power over us because it happens when we don’t notice, and we just immediately get caught up in it.
- We procrastinate, we lash out, we get caught up in anxiety, we hide in our comfortable activities.
- It’s a mental habit, of running from discomfort and running to comfort or pleasure. It’s hoping for something better, and then fearing we won’t get it.
- Instead, we can be present with what is right in front of us … opening up to the task, to the situation unfolding, even to our feelings of fear and resentment and frustration.
- There’s a feeling of getting hooked, and then going into a chain reaction of thoughts … the initial feeling of “I don’t like this” and then building up a case against the other person, against the situation we don’t like, or against ourselves.
- It’s a physical feeling, this “getting hooked,” and we can learn to notice it. Spend the day today trying to catch yourself getting hooked, and pause. Notice how it feels. Try to become familiar with this, just as you start to get caught up in the chain reaction.
- When you notice yourself getting hooked … and you learn to pause … you can actually change your patterns.
For me, I’ve noticed patterns of:
- Procrastinating and wanting to avoid or run from discomfort
- Anxiety
- Rushing
- Resentment
- Comparing myself to others
In the webinar video, I talk about some of the replacement patterns I’ve been trying to form instead of these patterns.
Part II: Questions and Answers
You can download this video here, or download just the audio. Or watch below.
Questions answered in this video:
- How to best remind yourself to pause and interrupt the patterns? It happens so automatically and fast. The idea of a practice day is great–but what about at work etc?
- Besides focusing on the breath and pausing, is it helpful to ask ourselves “How can I best help this feeling in my body?”
- I get especially hooked when there is some truth in “the story”. Any thoughts on this?
- I like the idea of going below the story and I’ve done this and it works. Do you also find that sometimes you have to use the story to better understand the harmful patterns/attachments?
- How do you go about forgiving yourself for automatically getting hooked in the past – for so much of your life?
- The more I contemplate my fears, the more I seem to uncover. Am I missing something, or is this normal?
- In the Fearless Sessions, I’ve been focusing on current fears, but after those seem less powerful, old big past fears are surfacing. I thought the old were gone, so does it ever end?
- I learned that there are many people that are unenlightened and attempt to try to deny my importance. Am I justified to ignore them?
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When we have the pattern of comparing ourselves and our ways of doing things with ours and when we feel better, sometimes I feel I can help others by telling them my/our way is better. But how can I tell whether my way is really better or I just feel so?
Kengo Kuma Unveils Designs for Residential Superstructures in Moscow
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Kengo Kuma & Associates have been tapped to design a new high-rise residential complex on Kutuzovsky Prospekt in Moscow, adjacent to the new business district of Moscow City. The project will be the first urban plan in Moscow to take the form of superstructures rather than individual buildings, and will be Kuma’s first project in the Russian Capital.
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The 360,000 square meter complex will follow an open-courtyard concept where the elongated building structures will frame a wide promenade directing pedestrians through to the nearby Moscow River. Public and community social spaces will also be integrated throughout the project, along with an underground parking deck and small indoor garden.
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On the outside, the building facades will be constructed from matte anodized aluminum to reflect sunlight and create “an effect of lightness and transparency.”
In an interview conducted by the Architectural Council of Moscow and included as part of a press release for the project, Kuma explained his inspiration for the site and his take on the current state of the architecture world:
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Archcouncil: Why have you decided to work here? What are you interested in?
Kengo Kuma: The location of this project is very important for Moscow, because it’s near the Moscow River, which is the new center of activity in Moscow. The aim of the project is to combine the big boulevard and the riverside; and it can change dramatically the urban environment of the location.
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A: The Moscow Government approved the unified urban development concept of the Moscow River’s adjacent territory. What challenges are development projects facing, which, like yours, will be implemented on the riverside? And what benefits can they bring to the city?
KK: In the XX century the riverside and city life were totally separated. On the riverside there were factories or warehouses — those houses block the river from the city. But in the XXI century people would like to enjoy the nature of the river. In Japan we also have the same program: the nature, a river or ocean, and a city have been separated by industrial buildings for a long time. In Europe people face the same problem — when buildings have broken the nature and the city.
Our project in Moscow is kind of a “gate” which connects the city and the river. This is an ideal project to combine the courtyard, various activities and the river. We’ve been working together to create this kind of new prototype which will connect nature and the city. It can be the new prototype not only for Moscow; it can be the new prototype for every city in this century.
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A: What do you think about the trends that were demonstrated at the present Architectural Biennale in Venice: simplification of shapes, cost reduction, single use policy? What’s your forecast for the future?
KK: Now the relationship between society and architecture is changing, as society is very often critical to the cost of the building, and also the environment has become very important. In that new situation the architects should find a new way of creating their character; as still a strong character is very necessary for architectural design. But at the same time the cost, environment and global warming effect have become very-very important. And we should find the meeting point of these requirements.
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A: Do you think that the competence of modern architect is changing?
KK: In the beginning of the XX century, the Russian architects tried to combine the technology of the XX century and the new design. Nowadays what we should do is to combine the environmental technology and architectural design; because we have many new technologies for ecology and for sustainability. But the architectural design and those technologies are totally separated. We should integrate those things together.
In this project we are designing the riverside; we even use simulation of wind flows to create the most comfortable environment. This work can be a good example of integrating the two kinds of technology.
News via Archcouncil of Moscow.
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The 5 Best Podcasts on Creativity
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An idea without action is imagination, not creativity. Creativity often feels like you are experiencing a finely tuned sense of self, a realm of consciousness that sparks the flame of an idea or an innovation. There is an amalgamation of patterns, connections and perceptions that precede the rush of creativity, yet it can be so elusive to achieve. The act of discovering and producing solutions is also at the core of creativity. These 5 podcasts illuminate what exactly it is to embody creativity.
- This is a podcast by Brian Koppelman who speaks to author Seth Godin as they tackle the topic of inertia and writer’s block. One must begin with the question “who is it for?’ He feels there is no such thing as writer’s block, only bad habits and fear of what someone else will say. The inventions of judgment is not fuel it’s sabotage’. All is in the act of practice.
- This podcast ‘Show up before you’re ready’ features Glennon-Doyle Melton, and is such an honest conversation to listen to. She posits that the deeper you go the more other people see themselves in you. So, there is no reason to worry about showing people who you are, which is a big obstacle for most creative people.
- How do you know you’re creative? There is not one perfect measure to find it, but there are several correlations that point to that answer. Cultural knowledge and the moment in time enter into the equation. Creativity is routinely equated with the arts, but other skills relate to ingenuity as well, such a science, that draw on perception and problem solving. There is courage involved in being able to color outside the lines.
- This podcast interviews Justine Musk, as she discusses her journey of discovering her true purpose in life after an identity crisis. When you ask yourself different questions such as how to live a meaningful life, how do you then create that for yourself? Creativity in this broader scope of your entire life’s purpose is a question about tuning in to your intuitive voice. Ask yourself what is working in your life, dissect it and discover emotional resonance, that is a result of creative expression and communication.
- In this blog, they discuss the question that with the knowledge that the old guard of ‘left brain, right brain’ ideas are overturned, where does creativity actually come from? The answer is ‘it’s complex’, and points to multi faceted traits such as behaviors, cognitive processes, how our brain makes associations, etc – these are all factors. Creative people tend to daydream, all the work is in your head. Identify when you work the best and hold on to this to foster your best creative effort.
Creativity begins with a drive, a conviction and a sense of optimism about a particular point of view. However, it is not necessarily always an innate or inherent quality, creativity is something that can be cultivated to a certain degree. Creative people utilize different ways of processing experience, make unique connections between things, and form new insights. There’s a need to reach out and make contact with others who may acknowledge the impact of the creative outlet. To be creative is uniquely human, and over the ages, humanity has produced astonishing works that display the depths of our mystifying imagination.
Do you read a great blog about creativity that’s not on the list? Leave a comment on FB!
Larissa Gomes is a breast cancer survivor and single mom to her spirited baby boy! Originally from Toronto turned Angeleno, she has worked in roles from writer, actor and producer for well over a decade. In that time, she’s developed concepts, film and television screenplays, short stories, along with freelance articles, blogging and editing work.
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K21 Skardsøya / TYIN Tegnestue Architects
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- Architects: TYIN Tegnestue Architects
- Location: Møre og Romsdal, Norway
- Architect In Charge: Andreas G. Gjertsen, Ørjan Nyheim
- Area: 60.0 m2
- Project Year: 2016
- Photographs: Pasi Aalto
- Contractor: Sissel By, Olve Aarhaug
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From the architect. The cottage holds a special place in contemporary Norwegian culture. A few generations back the majority of the Norwegian people made a living from farming, fishing or lumbering, trades which afforded closeness with nature. In the contemporary and urbanized way of life the cottage is a means maintaining this closeness. This particular cottage is modestly sized with its 60 square meters, and thus a sustainable structure both in terms of material usage and energy consumption.
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The building sits amidst marshland, sea-adjacent rock and scattered pine- and juniper-vegetation. An important consideration in the project was to avoid interfering with this sensitive surrounding terrain. It heals slowly due to climatic factors. The cottage lies 21 meters above sea level, and the distance to the sea front is 100 meters. Some marsh had to be cleared in preparing for the building phase, exposing bedrock and thus aiding in integrating the cottage with the terrain.
Floor Plan
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The structure rests on a concrete base, and the main building is a studwork house with beamed ceilings. The main building sits on three different levels. This lowers its height and emphasizes a connection between the interior of the cottage and the outside areas. The access point is on the western side of the lot, slightly lower than the cottage itself. Visual impact depends markedly on perspective. From the west the cottage appears rather tall, while from the east it looks lower and more adapted. Entry to the main building is situated next to the outhouse, and a shared gallery roof keeps it sheltered from rain and wind.
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The clients did most of the construction work themselves. This level of client participation is rare, and we were delighted to see the level of personal commitment put into the details. The exterior of the building is clad in spruce harvested from the client’s own forest. This untreated material fades rapidly, attaining a light and silvery shimmering hue. The outside detail is kept to a minimum to ensure an even patina for the walls.
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Cyber Monday Deal: Get 60% Off My E-books
After the first deal on Black Friday, today I’d like to give you my second (and last) deal: for three days only, you can get my e-books for 60% off.
There are three e-books that you can get. The first one is Motivation Booster, a collection of my best motivational writings, revised and updated. The second one is A Dent in the Universe, a collection of business lessons from Steve Jobs that can help you build your own business. The third one is Wisdom of the Ages, a collection of the best quotes for living successfully.
You can now get Motivation Booster for $3.50 (normal price: $8.99), A Dent in the Universe for $2.70 (normal price: $6.99), and Wisdom of the Ages for $1.90 (normal price: $4.99). Or you can get all three of them for $6.90.
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