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A GROUP of architects set out to paint a 50-meter wall in Mandaue City with images of countryside life.

Richard Abella, president of the United Architects of the Philippines (UAP)-Datu Lapu-Lapu Chapter, said the mural they are working on aims to convey the need to protect the environment.

We only have one planet. We have to protect it, he said in an interview with reporters yesterday.

Their mural on a concrete wall of the Ho Tien Soy factory is an added attraction in Barangay Subangdaku, where street art enthusiasts led by renowned mural artist Amado Guerrero AG Sao are also doing the countrys first flyover art project.

Subangdaku Barangay Captain Ernie Manatad said he suggested that the architects depict countryside life in their mural painting to evoke the barangays past as an agricultural area.

Subangdaku has become a concrete jungle from being a place of ricefields, he said.

Manatad said the paintings are part of his effort to beautify street walls in the barangays.

Weve chosen walls that are frequently vandalized for the paintings. So far, nobody has vandalized the walls again, he said.

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The UAP, which has about 120 members, started their project on the 50-meter wall last Aug. 31. The wall has a height of five meters.

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Wide range of free events planned for Auckland Architecture Week 2014

From the 23-28 September the New Zealand Institute of Architects (Auckland Branch) is presenting a week-long festival of architecturally themed events and activities, most of them free.

The organisers of Auckland Architecture Week 2014 have put together a programme of events that considers the identity of Auckland, addresses architecture at both public and private scales, and recognises that the most important part of architecture is people.

City-focussed events include an Auckland Conversation featuring Auckland Council design champion Ludo Campbell-Reid, Hobsonville Land Company executive Mark Fraser and NZIA President Pip Cheshire and fellow Cheshire Architects director Nat Cheshire two designers who have been influential in the regeneration of some of the citys most popular areas. Auckland the Rise of a Design-led City (Thursday 25/09, 7:00pm) will focus on how integrating design thinking, the adaptive response to place, context and culture, can be Aucklands competitive edge its point of difference in the world.

Auckland Architecture Week also covers the topic of Aucklands identity. At the group exhibition, Auckland Redefined (opening event Friday 26/09, 7:00pm), five of the citys best architectural photographers, Patrick Reynolds, Mark Smith, Jackie Meiring, Samuel Hartnett and David Straight, present visual responses to a question posed by NZIA President Pip Cheshire: Auckland has used the City of Sails to promote itself in the past. Isnt it time we came ashore and defined Auckland by what it is, not what it is next to? What image of Auckland will evoke the spirit of our new city in a way that the billowing sails on the Waitemata once did?

Another event that considers identity, albeit at a national level, is Last Loveliest Loneliest in Venice (Thursday 29/09, 1:00pm). This year, architect David Mitchell was creative director of New Zealands first national exhibition at the Venice Architecture Biennale. Like all other national exhibitions at Venice, New Zealand responded to a provocation by Biennale curator Rem Koolhaas: do modern buildings, regardless of country, all look the same? New Zealands exhibition, Last Loneliest Loveliest, is a proposition about where New Zealand architecture has come from, where it might go, and how the islands in the South Pacific are connected to the wider architectural world.

Heritage protection or lack thereof for modern buildings is a current concern for Auckland. At Modernist Buildings under Threat (Sunday 28/09, 3:00pm) architectural lecturer and author Julia Gatley, conservation architecture specialist Adam Wild and HOME editor Jeremy Hansen will discuss reasons why modernist buildings with good architectural pedigrees, such as Tibor Donners Auckland Administration Building, sit in a heritage-protection blind spot.

Auckland Architecture Week also has an international aspect. This years Metro Glass Public Lecture (Friday 26/09, 6:00pm) will be presented by Mexican architect Enrique Norten, founder of the esteemed practice TEN Architectos. Norten is currently working on a wide-range of projects with significant international profiles, including the Guggenheim museum in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Auckland Architecture Weeks activities also address architecture at a human scale. On Sunday 28/09 (1:00pm), actor and television host Peter Elliott will present The Art of the Architect Live, a discussion with some of the well regarded architects who appeared on the popular television show. How do you choose an architect? What should you expect? What are the high and low points of the design process and, of course, what was making the TV show really like? The discussion will feature award-winning architects Lance Herbst, Malcolm Walker and Tony Koia.

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Architects should think like economists when creating apps, and let economic principles guide them in building and using elements in the Cloud.

Architects should think like economists when creating apps, and let economic principles guide them in building and using elements in the Cloud.

"You have to get the externalities right. You want it to work like a credit card does intuitive, easy to understand and applicable in lots of places. You have to get the incidences right. That means you need to get it right for the people who will be using it. If it is the CIO, it has to work right for him and his needs. If it is someone else, then it has to be fashioned to work right for them," said Chris Auld, CTO at Intergen.

Addressing a session at Microsoft's TechEd 2014, Auld encouraged IT architects to work on normalising costs between private and public Cloud.

"Consider the cost of raw materials. Don't let it be the case where the cost of things going in is more than the cost of the thing that is coming out of it. There are various ways to measure things these days and you should consider the input cost of the apps that you build, and understand what is cheaper where. And everything comes into the picture here people, power all of those elements.

"Always watch out for mispricing when using Cloud services as well. Take advantage of them. There are inefficiencies in the pricing system because even with competition this is not a perfect market and often you can take advantage of them. You might get years of cost advantage with mispricing, and you can architect apps with those cost models. Don't worry you will get time to pull out if things change," Auld said.

He encouraged architects to work on apps that are modelled around the philosophies of call centres.

"There are peaks and troughs related to calls that come into a centre and how they are dealt with. Build buffer around your apps to deal with those and to take the edge off the peaks and troughs. Protect your more expensive assets. When you get through to a call centre you don't speak to a tier three engineer first thing, do you? That's because they are more expensive, and what they bring to the business is more valuable. The first tier call centre folk protect the more expensive engineers. Same principles should apply in the app. And certainly don't waste precious resources," Auld said.

He also stated what Steven Martin, GM of Cloud and enterprise at Microsoft had told Computerworld NZ earlier, "Commoditised Cloud services are on a downward march to the bottom. High level and differentiated services, which can add more value, will have different pricing schemes. But it is very hard to find the right price that works well in the full continuum scale from small businesses to large businesses. Cloud providers are still working on the mechanisms to establish those prices."

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Ocean Groves Boorai Centre keeps a safe outdoor play space close by. Photo: Fred Thompson

Ian Perkins, director of Perkins Architects, has been designing childcare and early learning centres since the mid-1980s.

With almost 100 centres completed, many of which are in the outer suburbs of Melbourne, Perkins has seen their development and growth, as well as their changes over the decades.

"We've always been conscious of allowing children to explore their minds, as well as spaces," he says. "But there is always that fine line between adventure and creating a nurturing and safe environment."

One of the most recent children's hubs completed by Perkins Architects is the Boorai Centre at Ocean Grove.

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Commissioned by the City of Geelong, the brief was to create a range of services for families with young children, from birth to kindergarten years.

A "one-stop shop", the Boorai Centre includes maternal and child health facilities and consulting rooms, together with a wing dedicated to "long day care".

At one end of this wing are rooms designated for younger infants, while at the other are rooms for those of kindergarten age.

Perkins Architects also created a secondary wing for kindergarten children attending sessional groups in the morning or afternoon.

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THE BAGUIO Cathedral is one of 36 structures in the summer capital which Baguio folks have asked to be declared as heritage sites. RICHARD BALONGLONG/INQUIRER NORTHERN LUZON

BAGUIO CITY, PhilippinesAcknowledging the need to make amends for their role in the overdevelopment of the summer capital, a group of architects has started a movement to popularize structures built by American colonial engineers and Filipinos to support a renewed Baguio conservation drive.

Aris Go, Baguio chapter president of the United Architects of the Philippines (UAP), said he and volunteer architects have been examining the foundations, design and building materials of old structures like the Diplomat Hotel at Dominican Hill and the Baguio Cathedral.

The city celebrated its 105th foundation day on Sept. 1.

Go said the group would lay down the principles behind Baguios old structures for an audience of engineers and building professionals, hoping to explain the structural character of the city designed by the late Chicago architect Daniel Burnham.

The move may also inspire Baguio architects to become more protective of these structures, he said.

We polled our [300] members, and about half of them turned out to be building contractors also, who bid for private and government projects, he said. This means some architects have different stakes when they pursue a construction job.

Go spoke at a news conference organized by the Baguio Heritage Foundation, which outlined the progress made in securing heritage status for 36 proposed historic sites here, among them the Baguio Cathedral and the Dominican Hill.

Go offered his apologies on behalf of his fellow architects, for their role in projects that contributed to the loss of landscapes or skylines that should have been preserved.

Joseph Alabanza, former city architect and a heritage foundation member, said he is worried about the overdevelopment of Baguio.

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