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Central Park Sydney Australia HD 01 Central Park, visit http://www.centralparksydney.com/ The world #39;s best cities are not defined by their architecture alone...
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Local architects build high-end shelters for feral cats
Local architects build high-end shelters for feral cats. http://wj.la/1fB2VaE.
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Lancaster Bible College - Teague Learning Commons - Interior Animation Walkthrough
Here is a quick walk through of the newest building on Lancaster Bible College #39;s campus.
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Media release 27 February 2014
Klein Architects complete landmark Red Zone building
Specialist health architectural firm, Klein have played a vital part in the new $55m Fort Hospital that was recently opened by Prime Minister John Key. Located in the heart of Christchurchs Red Zone area, the building marks a significant and historic milestone as the first significant new building to be completed in the red zone since the 2011 earthquake.
The state-of-the-art surgical facility situated on Peterborough Street replaces the Oxford Clinic building that incurred significant earthquake damage and was later demolished in 2012.
As a result of their award winning work within the New Zealand health sector, Klein Architects were commissioned in 2012 by Forte Health to complete the specialist interior fit-out working with the base-build architects Wilson and Hill. An important part of the client brief was to create an interior that was both environmentally sound and sustainable so we have incorporated a whole raft of initiatives aimed at making it as energy efficient as possible, says Melanie Mason, lead architect for the project. The projects sustainable design has resulted in a 4 Green Star Design rating by the New Zealand Green Building Council. This is a real honour as its the first time this award has been given to a medical facility in New Zealand.
The key challenge for us was the speed of the project. Construction of the building commenced while we were still finishing design of the fitout. Design was completed in just eight months and from start to finish the complex took only 18 months to construct, which is a remarkable feat.
The buildings roll call of eco credentials include solar power, smart lighting system, heat recovery air conditioning system, waste reduction and a specialist built in energy optimising building management system.
Unlike similar medical buildings the architects have incorporated an atrium in an attempt to allow natural light to permeate into areas of the building that would normally be forced to rely on artificial light. This clever design tactic has allowed light to flood into the four operating theatres and 12 bed recovery areas helping to make these areas much more pleasant environments. The overall interior has been carefully crafted around the specialist needs of patients and staff.
Dorothy Paton, Fort Healths General Manager says the specialists and stakeholders are thrilled with the environment that has been created for patients, visitors and staff. The building has been designed by healthcare professionals, which has provided the best outcome for all. We have had some amazing feedback about the light, room flow and design of the building. Klein Architects proved to be an excellent design partner.
As New Zealands leading specialists within the health field, the recent completion of the Fort Hospital follows on from other major projects such as the new five storey clinical services building at Middlemore Hospital in South Auckland for Counties Manukau DHB. This $140m, 30,000m development sees the creation of 14 operating theatres, a 43 bed recovery suite and a 42 bed assessment and planning unit. Klein continues their work in Christchurch leading the masterplanning and health design of the major redevelopment of the Burwood Health Campus which is now under construction.
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In London this year, six well-known architects will jockey for a chance to build a large public building. Sounds pretty unremarkable, right? Except that the structure was already designed and finishedmore than 150 years ago. Now, a Chinese property developer is holding a design competition to recreate it.
The building in question is the Crystal Palacethe elegant but hulking structure that was designed to house the 1851 Great Exhibition. It's been remade in different iterations several timesonce in England, once in New York, and once even in Dallas. But now, the palace is coming home to London. The Chinese developer behind the plan, Zhongrong Group, is putting up more than $800 million to rebuild the structure on its original site.
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This week, it announced a shortlist of six architects who will submit designs to do it. The list includes Zaha Hadid and Anish Kapoor, Nicholas Grimshaw, David Chipperfield, Marks Barfield, Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners, and Hawthorn Tompkinsnames responsible for some of London's most notable new structures, like the Millennium Dome, the Olympic Aquatic Center, and the Royal Court Theatre.
So, why even bother? Well, to architects and historians, the Crystal Palace is big deal. A really big deal. It was the building that, in some ways, foreshadowed modern architecture. It looks ornate and decorative, but this was a structure based on cold, calculated functionality. The whole thing was organized around the largest pane of glass available at that timeitself nothing short of a technological wonderwhich defined the proportions and layout of the building.
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The steel framework that held these glass panes was modular and prefabricatedwords pretty much unknown in 1853. Each module arrived at the site of the palace pre-made, and only needed to be screwed into place. The whole thing was built in record time, and became the largest prefab structure ever built. It was a blueprint for the next 150 years of architecturea super-light, super-cheap steel skeleton built to house the latest technological marvels of the day.
You know the morbid phenomenon in which an artist or musician's premature death bolsters the public's appreciation of their work? It's true for architecture, too. After the original Crystal Palace was relocated in 1854, it burned down in 1926and the memorializing began.
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A family retreat on Burden Lake in Rensselaer County and the adaptive reuse of the Malone Middle School building in Franklin County received top honors at the 2013 Design Awards event of the American Institute of Architects' Eastern New York chapter.
The awards were presented at the Arts Center of the Capital Region in Troy.
The Brass Residence, a 2,300-square-foot, two-story, four-bedroom lake house, was designed by a team led by Scott Townsend, founder and principal of Albany-based 3t Architects.
The group turned an existing camp into a contemporary lakeside retreat that eventually will become a primary home.
CSArch of Albany received the honor award for its work on the Malone Middle School, transforming an existing building into what the jury said "was a more inviting space capturing the essence of the original facade... ." The submitting architect was Randolph J. Collins.
Troy-based architecture + received a merit award for historic preservation for its exterior rehabilitation of Husted Hall at the University at Albany's downtown campus, and an institutional merit award for its design of the Worcester Recovery Center and Hospital in Worcester, Mass. The submitting architect on the Husted Hall project was J. Michael Bergen, while Francis Murdock Pitts was the submitting architect for the Worcester project.
James Dixon Architect PC of Chatham received merit awards for a party barn in Sharon, Conn. and a village house in Kinderhook
JMZ Architects & Planners of Glens Falls received a merit award for the Fulton Campus at River Glen (renovation/addition/adaptive reuse category), the conversion of a strip mall into a campus for Cayuga Community College in Fulton. The submitting architect was Karen Kilgore-Green.
The event was Thursday.
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Published: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 at 10:23 p.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 at 10:23 p.m.
New construction work on Cypress Gardens Boulevard across the street from Legoland Florida is for a 5,125-square-foot retail building expected to be built by June. The project is being developed by Winter Haven-based Swain Development. Company owner Brian Swain would not say what tenants will take up in the retail space. He is expecting one tenant to use about 2,000 square feet and a second to use about 3,000. The outparcel has been planned as part of Winter Haven Square since it was first built 20 years ago, but the success of Legoland has helped create the demand for its development, Swain said.
New construction work on Cypress Gardens Boulevard across the street from Legoland Florida is for a 5,125-square-foot retail building expected to be built by June. The project is being developed by Winter Haven-based Swain Development. Company owner Brian Swain would not say what tenants will take up in the retail space. He is expecting one tenant to use about 2,000 square feet and a second to use about 3,000. The outparcel has been planned as part of Winter Haven Square since it was first built 20 years ago, but the success of Legoland has helped create the demand for its development, Swain said.
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Etobicoke York Community Council met on Tuesday and considered the five following preliminary reports into proposed development projects in Etobicoke:
- A rezoning application for the lands at 5239, 5245 and 5249 Dundas St. W. and 3 Aukland Rd. in Ward 5 seeks to permit the construction of a 40-storey, mixed-use building at the intersection. The development would feature 5,433 square metres of retail space in a base building fronting the corner, and 378 apartment units in a 38-storey building tower above.
- Also in Ward 5, a rezoning application for the site of 1030 and 1040 Islington Ave. (at Norseman Street) proposes the construction of 176 townhouse units on the eastern portion of the lands and a 4,024 square metre industrial building with 25 units on the western portion.
- Further north on Islington Avenue in Ward 2, an application for the rezoning of a site just south of Rexdale Boulevard seeks to permit the construction of a 19-building commercial and office development. The proposal would include a total of 2,688 parking spaces to service potential patrons of the 50,098 square metres of retail space and 17,224 square metres of office space to be built at 2200 Islington Ave. Access to the site would be provided from two existing entries on Rexdale, plus an additional entry from Islington.
- A rezoning application for the lands at 2161-2165 Lake Shore Blvd. W. in Ward 6s Humber Bay Shores area, meanwhile, seeks to allow a mixed-use development consisting of two residential towers of 49 and 14 storeys, plus a four-storey commercial building. The residential component of the development would feature a total of 660 residential units, and the development would also include 2,523 square metres of commercial space and 1,445 square metres of retail space. A five-level underground parking facility would provide for 635 residential spaces and 103 visitor/commercial spaces. The proposed development would also create two new streets and a private lane.
- Also in Ward 6, a rezoning application for 251 Manitoba St. (at Legion Road) seeks to permit the construction of a 48-storey mixed-use building containing 548 apartment units and a total of 108 square metres of ground-floor retail space. The proposed development would have a four-level, 640-space underground parking garage.
West-end councillors gave each of the preliminary reports the go-ahead, meaning all five proposals will now proceed to the community consultation phase. City staff were instructed to work with the local councillors in each instance to schedule community meetings to discuss the applications and their proposed development plans with local residents and stakeholders.
Notice of consultation will be given to landowners and residents living within a certain proximity of the sites of each proposed redevelopment.
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Andy Nelson can almost set the clocks of the Western Pawn Shop by watching the traffic pass by his storefront on Montana Avenue.
When the line of cars gets longer than his shop at2817 Montana Ave.,he knows rush hour has begun.
"At 5 oclock, its the worst," he said.
The construction site where the new Empire Parking Garage is being built, on the corner of Montana Avenue and North 27th Street, has taken up one of the driving lanes since January 2013, creating a bottleneck that backs up traffic morning and night.
"When youre pinching from three to two (lanes), its tough," said Nelson, the pawn shop owner. "Then the train comes through and everyones trying to take a right, its something."
The city-owned project originally had a planned completion date of mid-February.
But a record-breaking winter and some initial funding setbacks put construction of the $16 million structure behind schedule.
It is being built by Sletten Construction of Great Falls.
Left turns from Montana onto North 27th also are restricted.
The parking spaces in front of the pawn shop have been replaced by traffic cones and a temporary blinking sign, instructing drivers to merge right.
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