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Sevenoaks and Benenden Kent (UK) modern architecture firm jhd Architects have participated for another year in 'Architect in the House', a scheme run by the UK housing and homelessness charity Shelter and the Royal Institute of British Architects.

Sevenoaks, Kent (PRWEB) November 29, 2012

Now in its 14th year, the 'Architect in the House' scheme matches homeowners with a local RIBA chartered architect who gives up an hour of their time for a design consultation. The scheme is only open to RIBA chartered members and practices.

Since signing up to the scheme, Jon and Tim have been giving homeowners within a 30-mile radius of Sevenoaks and Benenden the chance to receive an hour-long consultation on any home or design related query, whether its advice about creating space for a growing family, gaining planning permission or just to find out the best way to allow more light into their home. In return for their help, homeowners have been donating a minimum of 40 to support Shelters work with people in housing need. Since its launch, the scheme has raised more than 1 million for Shelter, including 105,000 last year alone.

Says director Timothy Ball: "Rather than moving, many people are considering extending their existing home either up, out or even down. Using an architect maximises the potential for available space and the resale value of the property. Basement extensions are particularly interesting as they can significantly increase the overall floor space in Conservation Areas and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty where planning restrictions are especially tight. All the basements we design introduce natural light in various ways and some connect with the outdoors. Sloping sites offer the greatest potential.

Says Jon Hughes: "Everyone has a dream project for their home. Architect in the House is a great first step towards making that dream a reality, while supporting Shelters work. Its also a way of putting a toe in the water if working with an architect is something you havent done before. It doesnt matter if your home is old or new we really can make a difference and want homeowners to get involved."

The Council of Mortgage Lenders has predicted that 45,000 homes in the UK will be repossessed in 2012. With hundreds of thousands of families awaiting social housing, and a chronic lack of affordable homes to rent, Shelters services for people in need will be stretched to the limit in the months ahead.

Homeowners interested in signing up for the 2013 scheme should contact the RIBA. For further information on jhd Architects' services contact susanball(at)jhdarchitects(dot)co(dot)uk.

Tim Ball and Jon Hughes are chartered members of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). Their architecture firm, jhd Architects, is a RIBA Chartered practice based in Sevenoaks and Benenden, Kent, which specialises in contemporary new houses, extensions, listed building projects, swimming pools and outdoor living spaces and health and leisure schemes for private clients in Kent and Sussex. Examples of their unique designs can be found in their portfolio of architectural projects. 'Architect in the House' is just one of several ways the practice has supported the community in recent years. It has also raised money for Hospice in the Weald, and arranged visits and given talks on design and architecture to MidKent College design and carpentry students.

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Officials hosting a public meeting meant to garner information from West York residents about an impending streetscape project didn't exactly get the feedback they were looking for.

No residents showed up at the meeting held Wednesday night at the Reliance Fire Co. Instead, architects shared ideas on the plan with two borough council members and received their feedback.

Residents provided the ideas during a 2011 public meeting hosted by the York County Planning Commission. From there, architects with York City-based Murphy & Dittenhafer started putting the ideas to paper.

"We thought the main thing to do is to focus on creating a borough identity," said Jennifer Line, an architect designer with the firm.

Improvements: The majority of the improvements will be centered in and around the square - where West Market Street intersects Highland Avenue - and will be in keeping with the traditional Victorian and Edwardian architecture already found in borough.

Possible streetscape improvements include bump-out curbs at some intersections and near the York Expo Center, new sidewalks and pedestrian street and railroad crossings and the addition of trees along streets.

Other possible improvements include angled parking on Highland Avenue, trashcans and benches at the square and signs at borough borders.

Showing pictures of welcome signs found in other towns, Line said signs could define West York's borders and would give the borough an identity.

"Its very welcoming," she said. "It tells you you've arrived somewhere."

All too often, Shane Louthian, a councilman, said he is asked where the line is between York City and West York. As it is now, there isn't a visible defined line between the two municipalities.

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MALACCA: Architects and developers of commercial centres in the state have been told to preserve the ancient architectural designs of old Malacca buildings to distinctively turn the city as a historic metropolitan.

Chief Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Ali Rustam said Malaccas architects are unique and has potential for new development to have the same design to preserve the historic value of the new structures adorning the city.

We talk about preserving heritage building but its important to maintain the earlier designs like those found in Jonker Street in the heart of the city , he said srecently.

Mohd Ali said similar views are heard throughout Malaccas architectural community where they hope that the state would make it compulsory for future developments to preserve the geometrical designs of the old buildings at their facades.

There is a need to preserve the pre-war building designs as we want the structures to be distinct from others cities in the country, he said.

Mohd Ali said Malaccas history is largely embedded in its architectural fabric and the design of heritage is an important element to be preserved in order to define the landmark within the urban area as well as generating income and boosting the local tourism industry.

In an unrelated matter, Mohd Ali said that the local authorities in the state should look into constructing more bunds to prevent flash floods like the one experienced here recently.

He said local authorities have failed to look into such matters that caused flooding in many areas as there was no proper outflow for water after a heavy downpour.

This flood mitigation programmes have been discussed in numerou smeetings but there are inadequate actionstaken by the local authorities on the matter, he said.

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By Craig Campbell, Dundas Star News

Architects who drew up J.L. Grightmire Arena renovation plans for the Hockeyville Legacy Foundation have been secured by the City of Hamilton as design consultants for the project.

Dundas councillor Russ Powers introduced the motion to approve Invizij Architects Inc., designers of several Hamilton area recreation projects, instead of tendering the project in order to help meet a couple of big deadlines.

The project that will completely redevelop the Market Street arenas front entrance, bringing in new change rooms, washrooms and an elevator as well as a new second floor lounge, meeting areas and Dundas Sports Wall of Fame, is targeted for completion before the April 2014 Allan Cup amateur mens national hockey championship being hosted by the Dundas Real McCoys.

The project was submitted as part of a funding request to the Community Infrastructure Improvement Fund (CIIF), which requires funded projects to be finished by March 31, 2014.

Theres no reason why we cant have construction before (next) season starts, Powers said at last weeks meeting of the Dundas Community Council.

The Hockeyville Legacy Foundation is contributing $600,000 to the project, and has already received detailed drawings from Invisij Architects.

In addition, the city has requested $1-million from the CIIF while committing $1.1-million itself.

Because the Grightmire Arena renovation is listed on the citys preliminary 2013 capital budget, it is one of several projects on the citys CIIF request causing funding pressures explained Adam Smith, a senior financial analyst at the City of Hamilton.

It would potentially reduce some of those pressures if an announcement were to be made prior to the December 11 (General Issues Committee) meeting, Smith said.

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Hudson Yards, a series of buildings to be built over the rail yards on Manhattan's West Side, will add a new neighborhood with the population of downtown Detroit to the Big Apple

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Hudson Yards, a series of buildings to be built over the rail yards on Manhattan's West Side, will add a new neighborhood with the population of downtown Detroit to the Big Apple. How do you create a city within a city?

While thousands of New Yorkers struggle to rebuild in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, a much larger project is poised to begin construction on a new neighborhood from scratch on the city's west side. The Manhattan-based developer The Related Companies expects to break ground this month on Hudson Yards, the $15 billion city-within-a-city built atop a platform over the eponymous rail yards. Cities built from scratch have been popping up in Asia, but what will happen to New York when it adds an entire new high-rise city into an already thriving metropolis?

We will soon find out. The mega-project reportedly received its first $400 million of financing last month to cover phase one of what will eventually include 12 million square feet of offices, condos, hotels and retail enfolded into a quartet of towers--the tallest of which will rise higher than the Empire State Building. Picture Columbus Circle's Time Warner Center (another Related project) scaled up and re-conceived in Rockefeller Center's image.

Related chairman Stephen Ross has drafted a passel of architects to bring the projection to fruition, including Elizabeth Diller of starchitects Diller Scofidio + Renfro, the consummate showman David Rockwell, and Skidmore Owings and Merrill partner David Childs, who designed One World Trade Center. But the task of master planning a neighborhood from scratch has fallen to the less flashy firm of Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, best known as the builder of such "supertall" skyscrapers as Shanghai's 1,614-ft. World Financial Center or Hong Kong's 1,588-ft. International Commerce Center.

Hudson Yards may shock New Yorkers with its instant addition of a neighborhood the size of downtown Detroit to the north end of the Highline, but this is exactly what KPF--among legions of other western architects have been doing in Asia for years. "This isn't really a supertall," KPF co-founder Bill Pedersen said while glancing at a model of the project in his office; Manhattan's skyline has some catching-up to do. While Pedersen insists the plan for Hudson Yards "is pure New York," i.e. not a New York version of the Korean city New Songdo, the project bears unmistakable traces of the firm's decade-long building spree abroad.

The project's closest predecessor, for instance, might be Tokyo's Roppongi Hills--a similarly supersized live-work-play development that opened in 2003. Like Hudson Yards, Roppongi Hills was built largely at the insistence of one man, the late real estate tycoon Minoru Mori, who dedicated the Mori Tower's uppermost floors to an arts center and museum. And like Mori, Related's Ross has expressed a similar personal interest in making culture a centerpiece of the project, including both the "Culture Shed," a city-managed arts complex designed by Diller and Rockwell, and a public monument which so far only exists in Ross' head.

Of the two towers designed by KPF, one will host the headquarters of Coach (with an assist from creative director Reed Krakoff), while the taller will boast a cantilevered observation deck, hotel, and other amenities at the top reminiscent of the firm's work at the World Financial Center. Shanghai's tallest skyscraper contains a Park Hyatt (formerly the world's highest hotel) and an observation deck running the length of the "can opener," including vertiginous glass panels in the floor on which visitors are invited to jump. (They're several feet thick.)

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The American Society of Landscape Architects has released its 2013 Awards Call for Entries for the 2013 professional and student awards, the premiere awards programs for the profession. Award recipients will receive featured coverage in the October issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine and in many other design and construction industry and general-interest media. Award recipients, their clients, and student advisors also will be honored at the awards presentation ceremony during the ASLA Annual Meeting and EXPO in Boston, November 1518, 2013. The award-winning projects will be featured in a video presentation at the ceremony and on the awards website following the event.

The prestige of the ASLA awards programs relies on the high-caliber juries that are convened each year to review submissions. Members of this years professional awards jury are:

Members of the student awards jury are:

Both the ASLA Professional and Student awards feature five categories: General Design; Residential Design; Analysis and Planning; Communications; and Research (the Professional Awards are co-sponsored by the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture). The Professional Awards also include The Landmark Award, while the Student Awards include the Student Community Service Award and Student Collaboration categories.

Entry forms and payment must be received by:

Submission binders must be received by:

In need of inspiration? View the ASLA 2012 professional and student award-winning projects.

About the American Society of Landscape Architects

Founded in 1899, the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) is the national professional association for landscape architects, representing nearly 16,000 members in 49 professional chapters and 76 student chapters. The Society's mission is to lead, to educate and to participate in the careful stewardship, wise planning and artful design of our cultural and natural environments. Members of the Society use their ASLA suffix after their names to denote membership and their commitment to the highest ethical standards of the profession. Learn more about landscape architecture online at http://www.asla.org.

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The new Seattle sports arena proposed for the Sodo neighborhood will be a landmark building with a strong sense of place, architects told a city Design Review Board Tuesday night.

Brad Schrock, senior principal for 360 Architecture, which is designing the new facility, said arenas in the past were "black boxes" with little connection to their surroundings.

"They weren't good neighbors. ... We're doing everything we can to encourage connection on all sides of the building so it becomes a gateway and a beacon," Schrock said.

Other architects on the design team said they wanted "transparency" inside the arena so that fans could see out to Mount Rainier and the cranes along the waterfront and locate themselves in the city.

The arena design team released conceptual drawings earlier this month of a 725,000-square-foot arena that seated 18,000 to 20,000 people. The detailed architectural drawings are expected to be released Friday.

The Design Review Board questioned how pedestrians could access the facility using public transit that was mostly located along Fourth Avenue South on the opposite side of train tracks. They also questioned how the arena would sustain activity in the neighborhood even when events weren't scheduled.

The architects said they plan strong pedestrian connections along First Avenue South and Occidental Avenue South. They said they also plan a restaurant or bar along First Avenue South.

Lynn Thompson: 206-464-8305 or lthompson@seattletimes.com. On Twitter @lthompsontimes.

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The Landscape Legacy of the Olympics, Part 9: The Olympic Soil Strategy
An interview with Tim O #39;Hare of Tim O #39;Hare Associates. This is the ninth of a series of ten interviews on the role of Landscape Architects in the Olympic Games. To find out more visit: http://www.landscapeinstitute.org Use the links below to skip to a specific question: 0:14 How did you get involved with the Olympic Project? 0:38 When did you apply for the work? 1:11 Describe your involvement at each stage of the project. 3:14 Briefly outline the soil strategy you developed. 7:11 How many types of soil were required? 8:23 How did the soil cope with the adverse weather conditions before the games started? 8:57 How much soil was used to construct the landscape scheme throughout the Olympic Park? 9:24 Why was subsoil such an important part of the design? 10:26 Was the soil strategy site wide or were different parts of the park treated differently? 11:05 How was the soil strategy implemented? 12:30 What kind of research or experimentation did you need to do to develop your solution/strategy? 13:20 Were any of the soil trials carried out onsite? 13:36 How much topsoil was recycled/created through the remediation process? 14:20 Explain the topsoil manufacturing process. 15:35 Where did the other soils come from? 15:48 What materials are taken from the quarries? 16:19 How did the soil reach the Olympic site? 17:19 What was your role during the construction phase of the landscape scheme? 18:28 What areas do you think have not been successful or could be improved? 19:17 What innovations ...From:landscapeinstituteukViews:0 0ratingsTime:31:23More inEducation

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The Landscape Legacy of the Olympics, Part 10: Writing an Olympic Brief
An interview with Peter Neal FLI and Annie Coombs FLI. Annie was tasked with drafting the original brief for the Olympic Park and Peter is co-author of #39;The Making of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park #39;. A book which reveals the philosophical context and technical insights that went into the creation of this sustainable and contemporary urban park of international significance. This is the last of a series of ten interviews on the role of Landscape Architects in the Olympic Games. To find out more visit: http://www.landscapeinstitute.org Use the links below to skip to a specific question: 0:12 How and when did you get involved with the Olympic Project and what was your role? 3:35 What were the past Olympic precedents that informed the design of the Park? 5:04 What were the central ingredients of the vision for the Park? 10:15 What was the process in drafting the design brief and what were the key elements? 20:00 How did the ODA choose to structure an integrated design team and how did the various design teams collaborate to deliver a highly integrated scheme? 28:07 What was the role of design advisors and the value of the design reviews? 32:08 How were you involved with or how did you contribute to the procurement of the Landscape? 35:40 What are the lessons from the Olympics in preparing design briefs for future urban landscapes and what are the lessons on procurement? 43:06 How do you think the Olympic Park will influence the design of 21st Century Parks and in fifty years time ...From:landscapeinstituteukViews:1 0ratingsTime:01:09:08More inEducation

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