Two architects have come up with the idea of building a train system, which travels up and down skyscrapers faade in the megacities of the future.

The Vertical Hyper-Speed Train Hub, pioneered by UK-based architects Christopher Christophi and Lucas Mazarrasa, embodies the idea of train carriages supported by magnetic tracks running up the skyscraper's exterior.

...The proposal will flip the traditional form and function of the current train station design vertically, and re-form it into a cylindrical mass to increase the towers train capacity..., they have said.

...Passengers will travel into the main lobby allowing travelers to ascend through the atrium and through the platforms and onto the carriages....

The carriages are made to pivot, allowing the passengers within the carriage to remain in an upright position and facing towards the cityscape. Each carriage could accommodate 10 people sat in two rows opposite each other.

The designers have asserted that the proposal would reduce CO2 emissions, increase energy security, and revolutionize international trading relations.

...The project will become a repeatable piece of infrastructure that can be implemented to support any city around the world, connecting to a new Hyper Speed under and over ground network, with trains covering an average distance of 300miles in 30 minutes....

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A kitchen bench made from a recycled bowling alley.

The bespoke chandelier suspended above the Cubo house's new central stairwell could be called ''staircase descending a staircase''. Like Duchamp's cubist painting Nude Descending a Staircase - mocked by one art critic as ''an explosion in a shingle factory'' - the house's old staircase has been ''detonated'' and abstracted. Part of Phooey Architects' latest ''upcycling'' project, the demolished former staircase now hangs in fragments, transformed into a chandelier.

There are two approaches to adapting and reusing existing buildings and materials, Phooey co-director Peter Ho explains. They can perform the same function, such as pulling out a window and simply reusing it as a window. Or materials can be given new life and an alternative function. ''That's where it fits into upcycling,'' he says.

''Generally, the industry knocks something down, sends it to somebody else and it's recycled,'' Ho says. ''What we try to do is keep things on site. Our whole perspective is to demonstrate that we can take responsibility for the things that we consume.''

A chandelier made from a staircase.

Pushing the tattered envelope of salvage materials, Ho and his partner, Emma Young, transform balustrades into door handles, form whole walls with salvaged windows, and ''upcycle'' security screens into sun-shading devices and external screens. Meanwhile the brick walls of the extended building envelope have been recycled and reframed as cubes, a nod to the surrealist cut-up technique ''cubomania'' that inspires the firm's approach to recycling.

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Breathe Architecture also employs the cut-up technique in the foyer of its Commons apartments in Brunswick. Like Phooey's Cubo house, the Commons is a notable entrant in this year's Victorian Architecture Awards.

''The old blond brick warehouse on Anstey station was totally covered with graffiti,'' Breathe design director Jeremy McLeod says. Bricks salvaged when the building was demolished were reused in the lobby, making a virtue of the graffiti.

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HOUSTON Katy ISD trustees approved VLK Architects to provide design services associated with elementary school #38 within Cinco Ranch Northwest Subdivision and elementary school #39 adjacent to Ventana Lakes Subdivision. The new elementary campuses will be designed to accommodate 1,030 students in grades pre-K through 5thgrade to address the increased growth occurring in Katy ISD.

According to VLK Principal Todd Lien, AIA, VLK looks forward to working with Katy ISD administrators and staff to develop plans for the new elementary schools, and provide the growing Katy community with age-appropriate, student-centric learning environments that are flexible, sustainable, secure and integrated with the latest technology to serve the needs of the next generation of learners.

VLK previously participated in a 21stCentury Learning Symposium hosted by the District to discuss ideas and examples of learning environments that are being designed and built in districts around the country and the state. Among the many items that were discussed were how these concepts could be designed into new schools for Katy ISD.

Approval of VLK Architects came at the recommendation of Superintendent Alton Frailey, Chief Operations Officer Thomas Gunnell and District Architect Peter McElwain. Trustees approved the measure as part of the boards consent agenda.

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KOTA KINABALU: Assistant Minister to the Chief Minister Datuk Edward Yong Oui Fah called on property developers, architects, designers, suppliers and builders to work together and commit to achieving the goal of sustainability through education, discipline and proper organizational planning.

Yong, when launching IPEX 2014 at Sabah Trade Centre yesterday, said architects could be pioneers in bringing about greater awareness of sustainability in the building industry and at the same time could influence all strata of the construction industry to adopt new approaches and practices towards green building and urban planning.

The property exhibition, which is organized by Persatuan Arkitek Malaysia (PAM) Sabah Chapter, will be held until Sunday.

The government fully supports the effort by PAM Sabah Chapter to play an active role towards bringing greater awareness among the players of the building industry. IPEX 2014 is one such example.

We share many similar objectives with PAM Sabah Chapter to encourage more sustainable development throughout Sabah, in particular here in our city Kota Kinabalu. We hope through our collaboration and concrete efforts, we can disseminate our ideas and vision to the general public for a better future for our city, he said.

Yong added that IPEX had established itself firmly within the building fraternity and the local residents as the premier building trade show in Sabah.

It has become an annual event that is much anticipated and eagerly awaited by all sectors of allied and related industries.

Touching on the exhibitions theme, Liveable Cities, Sustainable Cities, Yong said the earth is in a state of needing great attention as the people in this era are living in challenging times.

Natural disasters are being unleashed unexpectedly, causing much distress. The rise in global temperature, coupled with natural disasters, give rise to many challenges and people across the globe must undertake and overcome them with boldness.

At the same time, we are witnessing a mass migration of rural population to the urban centres. It is estimated that 50 per cent of the seven billion world population today live in urban areas, and this figure will rise 70 per cent of the nine billion world population by 2050.

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