UNISA Phase 2 by Michele Sandilands Architects
Commended in the AfriSam SAIA Award for Sustainable Architecture COMMENDATION: Located in one of Cape Town #39;s poorer, semi industrial areas, the UNISA Parow campus aims to instil a sense...
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RESTORATION work on a Heritage at Risk church building has scooped a top preservation award for the architects.
Beech Tyldesley, from Wells, were among the winners at the William Stansell/Somerset Building Preservation Trust Awards for the project at St Michaels Church, Othery.
Local schemes receiving commendations at a ceremony in Castle House, Taunton, were the refurbishment of Priory Barn, home to Somerset Cricket Museum, in Priory Avenue, Taunton, for architects Stone and Partners, and a house restoration in Swain Street, Watchet, where the architect was Paul Upton.
Russell Lillford, chairman of the Somerset Building Preservation Trust, said: We are delighted at the growing success of these building awards which aim to highlight the positive contribution that well designed and conserved buildings make to their surroundings.
Eighteen entries were received this year, all of a very high standard. I congratulate to all those who have won awards or have been commended theirs is a considerable achievement.
The awards are named after the late William Stansell, founder and chairman of the Stansell Group, whose great love was the conservation and repair of historic buildings.
The main sponsor is Tauntfield Ltd (the Stansell family company) and the awards were presented by Chris Winter, director of Summerfield Developments (SW) Ltd.
AWARD WINNERS.
*Repair to medieval house: Court Farm, Wookey, entrant and architects Harrison Brooks.
*Tower restoration: St Michael's Church, Othery, entrant and architects Beech Tyldesley.
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APIA, Samoa In many Pacific Island countries, Western-style home construction has been gradually usurping traditional architecture. But returning to indigenous practices of building and planning communities could be key to creating the disaster-resilient communities of the future, experts say.
In the Samoan community of Saanapu, for instance, local people, working with architects and environmental experts, are designing a new community center that will blend aspects of traditional Samoan architecture with solar energy, water tanks and the capacity to shelter up to 200 people for three weeks in the event of a disaster.
At the new center, it will be very easy for the village to come together and have a meeting and solve any problem, and it will be passed on that way to the next generation, said Popese Leaana, the traditional orator of Sa'anapu.
In Samoa, 70 percent of the South Pacific island states population of 190,372 people lives in low-lying coastal villages, many of which face high risks of devastation bygale-force winds, flooding, sea surges, and tsunamis.
In Saanapu, a village of 2,000 people on the south coast of the main Upolu island, abandoned dwellings scatter the foreshore, bearing witness to the ferocity of an 8.1 magnitude undersea earthquake and tsunami in 2009. Across the country 5,000 people and 850 households were affected by the disaster, including 25 homes in Saanapu.
Three years later island communities were again ravaged by severe Cyclone Evan, which hit during Samoas November to April tropical cyclone season.
Experts predict things could get worse. According to the Pacific Climate Change Science Program, wind speeds of Pacific cyclones are expected to increase 11 percent this century, while rainfall intensity will go up 20 percent.
People here have to live with [disasters] and [previously] they built their houses accordingly, so we need to learn from the past and offer new solutions to improve things for the future, urged Samoan architecture graduate Carinnya Feaunati.
For centuries, she said, the Polynesian people of Samoa have built structures appropriate to the climate and put them in locations to maximize social cohesion and effective governance attributes especially important in times of crisis.
Traditional architecture is epitomized by the fale, an oval-shaped open structure with timber posts supporting a steep domed roof. All of the building elements are "lashed" or bound together, originally with a plaited rope made from dried coconut fiber.
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Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is set to retake the witness stand in a lawsuit accusing the government of imposing illegally harsh terms in the bailout of American International Group Inc. (AIG), capping a week of testimony from the architects of the insurers 2008 rescue.
Maurice Hank Greenbergs Starr International Co., AIGs biggest shareholder before the rescue, claims in the lawsuit that the government illegally took equity in the company and that a 14 percent interest rate on the rescue loan was extortionate. Starr is seeking at least $25 billion in damages.
Bernanke, set for his second day of testimony today in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims in Washington, yesterday defended the higher rate, saying the $85 billion loan was intended to prevent the collapse of a systemic firm while the interest kept its shareholders from reaping a windfall.
The former Fed chairman, who was preceded on the witness stand this week by for Treasury secretaries Henry Hank Paulson and Timothy Geithner, has so far given terse, even dismissive responses under questioning by David Boies, and calling the lawyer for Starr a highly formal sir when answering.
He defended the easier terms given to banks and other institutions during the bailout. Low-interest lending was meant to get funds out into the system to improve liquidity, even though it was understood that the action might lead to a windfall for shareholders, Bernanke testified. There were offsetting considerations.
Earlier testimony and documents in the trial, which began Sept. 29, showed that banks paid less than 4 percent interest on their loans from the Fed.
Bernanke said that at the time of the bailout, he didnt know the basis for what a New York Fed official called a crazily high interest rate the government charged AIG.
I have since learned something about it, but at the time I didnt know, Bernanke said. I understand the overall goal was to minimize the windfall to the stockholders of AIG from being bailed out, but I couldnt go term by term and explain them.
Bernanke, Geithner and Paulson were considered the architects of the U.S. response to the financial crisis.
In their testimony, Geithner and Paulson likewise defended AIGs tougher rescue package and testified that a failure by the New York-based insurer would have been catastrophic for the economy.
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For almost 15 years, Treanor Architects worked on a restoration and preservation project at the Kansas Statehouse.
Now, only months after the project was completed, the companys work is being recognized on the state and national level.
The North American Copper in Architecture organization recognized the project as one of 14 recipients of the annual award for excellence in new construction and restoration projects utilizing copper, according to a news release from the state Department of Administration.
Treanor Architects submitted the firms work to the organization as well as to the American Institute of Americas Kansas chapter.
Vance Kelley, principal architect within the preservation branch of Treanor Architects, said the NACIA honor is a more competitive, more stringent national award. It is quite an honor.
The process for Treanor began in 1999 when the company was selected to create a historic structural report about the Kansas Capitol that, at the time, had been open for nearly 100 years.
There were deficiencies in the building, Kelley said. And more were discovered as the four-phase project continued.
Kelley pointed to part of the project where workers focused on the area where the copper meets the masonry.
Even though crews had spent time examining the structural integrity of the dome before work started, some problems couldnt be seen until the project was underway, which meant the discussion of a new roofing material had to be put on the table.
There was 120 years of deterioration and some of it we couldnt see. Years of expanding and contracting made the metal brittle and cracked, Kelley said.
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