vPPR Architects: Firm Friends
In a predominantly male industry, meet the all female founders of this RIBA award-winning London practice.
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vPPR Architects: Firm Friends
In a predominantly male industry, meet the all female founders of this RIBA award-winning London practice.
By: Crane.tv
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vPPR Architects: Firm Friends - Video
Best Architects in Prestwick
If you want to re-design a part of your home or have a custom house built then it goes without saying you want it to be done right and to the highest possible standard! This means you have...
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Jennifer Duke
READY TO BUILD: The prefabricated floating home comes in a series of components.
A new design promising homes that can be built on water is likelyto shake up the housing market.
By creating a home that floats, Britain-based Carl Turner Architects are promotinga new wave of properties on to the market that can be situated on flood plains and waterways.
The plans willbe freely available on the open sources architecture project Paperhouses.
Jennifer Duke
DESIGN FREELY AVAILABLE: The design also includes a crow's nest with an observation room at the top, and garden on the roof.
Described on Paperhouses as "part house and part boat", the design responds to the increasing challenges of flooding globally and to the underuse of urban waterways.
The floating house hasa floating tray as itsbase, with a rubber-coasted insulated timber box as the house, and side panels as an outer skin.
The design also includes a crow's nest with an observation room at the top, and a garden on the roof witha rainwater harvesting tank.
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Gulve Architects Sunshine Agri Pvt Ltd walk through
Gulve Architects Sunshine Agri Pvt Ltd walk through.
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Destiny - "Oh Those Silly Architects..." (Xbox One)
Hi! So I was playing Destiny earlier this morning (2/5/15) and well a Cabal decided to shield bash me from across the map! Yeah,that Cabal is MLG! I hope you...
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C.A.N.C.E.R. - Architects Drum Cover By Matt Salvo
Architects is one of my favorite bands, and I #39;ve spent a lot of time listening to them and learning their songs. This one stuck out to me on the recent album. Dan Searle is an awesome drummer...
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Grand Theft Auto 5 Gameplay Walkthrough Part 38 - The Architects Plans (PS4)
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Architects- Broken cross (Trabendo 2015)
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CoeLuxs artificial light will allow people to turn every day into a sunny day. (Credit: CoeLux)
Sunlight is a key factor architects take into account in their designs, but in most cases, theyre pretty much at the mercy of Mother Nature to provide it. However a new innovation may be set to change that.
An Italian company called CoeLux has developed an LED light that impeccably recreates the appearance of sunlight so well that both human brains and cameras cant tell the difference. Designers captured the color temperature and intensity of sunlight by recreating the same natural conditions that exist in Earths atmosphere, but on a nano scale.
When we step outside on a sunny day, the light that reaches us is actually filtered through the carbon dioxide, oxygen and nitrogen molecules that make up the atmosphere. The excited molecules scatter the blue light the smallest wavelength more intensely than colors with larger wavelengths. This effect, known as Rayleigh scattering, is the reason the sky is blue.
Using nanoparticles, CoeLux designers essentially compressed six miles of Earths atmosphere into a few millimeters to artificially recreate Rayleigh scattering. And rather than a gas, CoeLuxs light source passes through a solid layer.
The light itself is an LED projector that emits white light in a spectrum that mimics the suns output. A sophisticated optical system (but with few details provided) creates the sensation of the distance between the sky and the sun.
What results is stunningly close to looking at the sun through a real skylight (CoeLux even makes a point to assert its website photos arent doctored in any way). Buyers can even choose from one of three different types of sunlight: tropical, Mediterranean and Nordic. Each setting is a different color temperature, and the sun shines through at a different angle.
Access to natural light has been shown to have myriad health benefits. If CoeLuxs design is convincing enough, it could be not just a beautiful addition to a room but a highly practical one too.
CoeLux envisions its lights appearing in hospitals, windowless offices and basements hundreds of feet below ground. The lights are also useful for photographers that are looking to shoot in-studio photos with natural light. The only downside for these lights, right now at least, is their price: roughly $61,000 plus $7,000 for installation.
A dress bathed in sunlight. (Credit: CoeLux)
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This is the latest story from the NPR Cities Project.
In an abandoned building near Spain's Mediterranean coast, someone softly strums a guitar. Chord progressions echo through empty halls.
It's an impromptu music lesson, offered among unemployed neighbors in Alfafar, a suburb south of Valencia. The town was built in the 1960s for timber factory workers. It's high-density housing: tidy, identical two- and three-bedroom apartments, in huge blocks some 7,000 housing units in total.
But the local timber industry has since collapsed. More than 40 percent of local residents are now unemployed. A quarter of homes are vacant. Apartments that sold for $150,000 decades ago, are going for just $20,000 now.
That guitar lesson is just one way residents are using their free time and empty space creatively. And it's here that two young Spanish architects saw potential.
While still in architecture school, Mara Garca Mendez and Gonzalo Navarrete drafted a plan to re-design a high-density area of Alfafar, called Barrio Orba, using the principle of co-housing in which residents trade and share space and resources, depending on their needs.
"It's like up-cycling the neighborhood connecting existing resources to make them work," Garca explains. "For example, all this work force that's unemployed, all these empty spaces that are without use, all these elderly people that need help, all these natural resources that are not being taken care of making a project for all these things."
Through their architecture startup Improvistos, Garca and Navarrete submitted their Orba design to U.N. Habitat, a United Nations agency holding a competition for urban mass housing. And they won.
Redefining Public And Private Space
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