PUP Architects has installed a "subversive" duct-shapedpavilionon the roof of a canal-side warehouse in east London, to provoke local planning authorities to reconsider the area's development.

The London studio run by Theo Molloy, Chloe Leen and Steve Wilkinsondrew up the design for the Architecture Foundation's new Antepavilion programme, an annual commission sponsored by the property developerShiva.

The structure joins a collectionof other pavilions commissioned by Shiva in recent years for the roof of its Columbia Wharf studios.

These buildings have all been designed asprototypes for alternative ways to live in the city. They aim to challenge decisionsby the local planning department to allowa spate of luxuryhousing blocks to be built along Regent's Canal while other types of projects are very difficult to win approval for.

For instance, Shiva was denied planning permission to builda simple"beach house" on the roofback in 2016 although it went ahead and built it anyway.

PUP Architects decided to model the pavilion on a duct after finding a loop-hole in local planning laws that allowed for a two-storey service structure to be affixed to the top of the roof.

"We wanted to provoke a conversation aboutwhy, if you can build this type of strange plant equipment on the rooftop, why can we not use it in a more positive way, to inhabit and liberate all these hundreds of thousands of square metres of rooftop space?" the architectsexplainedduring a press preview of the pavilion.

"It's a sort of hypocrisythat rooftop plants or things which support buildings that end up on or around them are not subject to the same stringent scrutiny of design even if it's a huge ugly thing, it's seen as a practical thing, you can just put it there, no one cares," they continued. "But to say, I'd love to build a little fun summer house on my roof, you're not allowed to do that."

"The project is meant to provoke conversation around these issues. For that reason it will be interesting if Hackney [council] come back to us and try to challenge the idea because, what is it? Is it inhabitable, is it servicing the building?"

"Hackney [council] don't really take the planning process too seriously,"added the trio.

"[Shiva]is quite provocative, they're opposite a building the 19th-century Haggerston Baths which is now out of use and has fallen into disrepair, and I think their mindset is that perhaps council attention could be better used on that than challenging these prototype buildings on the rooftop."

The timber-framed pavilion is covered in a skin of silvery shingles made from recycledTetra Pak,a material more typicallyused for drinks cartons.

Molloy discovered the laminated paper, metal and plastic materialcould be used as arainscreen while leading a student building project at a Latvian brewery.

Pieces of the Tetra Pak material are folded into squares to conceal raw edges and overlapped like scales to coverthe outer walls.

The lower corner of each shingle is left loose, allowing the breeze and natural light into the pavilion. The inner walls may later be insulated and a kitchenette installed to make the space habitable for longer periods of time.

A hung staircase leads up a second-floor artist's studio through a snaking corridor to a viewpoint at the top of the pavilion, where "jumbo proportioned" louvres open to allow visitors to take in views of the canal and theapartment blocks that are replacing smaller houses and pubs along its banks.

"Although it was a practical aspect to enter from below, it really added to our concept of the structure being something a little bit subverting what a roof duct is, and this idea of covertness and secrecy," said the architects.

"It means that you can use it without ever going on the roof, which is obviously not made to be accessible."

"It's provoking local authorities in general about how open-minded they are to good ideas," the Architecture Foundations'sdeputy director Phineas Harper told Dezeen.

"It's a legal project, but it's pointing out all these problems with the planning system in a hopefully quite a fun and friendly way. But you can't get away from those problems."

"We thought if you're going to build a pavilion you might as well give it a political slant. Hopefully another impact of the Antepavilion project will be that other pavilion projects will start to take on a bit of a platitude," he added.

"The Serpentine Pavilion programme has been an amazing programme for a long time but it does feel like it's run its course or run out of a steam a little bit, and people are looking for something a bit more vigorous in its political outlook."

Antepavilion is open to the public at 55 Hoxton Docks on 6-7 August and again on 16-17 September during Open House London.

London-based think-tankThe Architecture Foundationand Shiva plan to continue theAntepavilion Commissionannually, to give emerging architects, artists and designers the chance to create further experimental rooftop structures.

Photography is byJim Stephenson. Drone footage is byTapio Snellman.

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A state commission has made a fitting choice in naming architect Thomas Rogers Kimball (1862-1934) as the next addition to the Nebraska Hall of Fame. Its a fitting choice, in that Kimball contributed to Nebraskas progress in major ways over the course of his career.

Consider Kimballs first significant architectural commission, in the early 1890s the original Omaha public library building at 1823 Harney St.

With its ambitious Renaissance revival style and bas-relief depictions of philosophical and literary figures, the library was hailed at its dedication as a symbol of Omahas determination to be a stronger, more ambitious city moving into the 20th century.

Kimballs subsequent architectural works included major structures that stand out for their creative vision and continue to do Nebraska proud.

Two examples are St. Cecilia Cathedral, in which Kimball pioneered the use of the Spanish Renaissance style in the United States, and the powerful design of the Hall County Courthouse in Grand Island.

The capstone for Kimballs contributions to Nebraska came in the selection process he established in the 1920s to select a designer for the Nebraska State Capitol. The double-blind competition process eliminated the possibility of favoritism and enticed nationally respected architects to submit proposals.

The winning design, by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, resulted in one of the most lauded state capitol concepts in the nation, a source of Nebraska pride to this day.

President Theodore Roosevelt named Kimball in 1909 to serve on a national commission overseeing design ideas for public monuments. Kimball was president of the American Institute of Architects during 1918-20.

Kimball whose postsecondary education included studies in Boston and Paris was an adviser for projects such as the state capitol in Missouri and a state war memorial in Indiana. His commissions included designs for 167 residential buildings and 162 nonresidential structures.

The Nebraska Hall of Fame Commission had a set of 12 impressive finalists to consider. Given his laudable contributions to the development of the state, Kimball is unquestionably a worthy addition.

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The BLS reports the median annual wage for architects was$74,520 in 2014. The best-paid 10 percent in the profession made approximately $121,910, while the bottom 10 percent made about $44,940. The metropolitan areas of Lancaster, Pennsylvania; San Francisco;and Atlanta, Georgia pay their architects the best.

75th Percentile: $95,310

Median: $74,520

25th Percentile: $57,380

An architects mean salary in 2014 of $80,490 was $17,360 less than what the typical art director ($97,850) made, yet it was approximately $16,440 more than the average salary of a PR specialist ($64,050).

The highest paid in the architect profession work in the metropolitan areas of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, San Francisco, and Atlanta, Georgia. The Sacramento, California area also pays well, as does the city of San Diego.

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The average salary of an architect working in Lancaster, Pennsylvania is $99,570.

The average salary of an architect working in San Francisco is $98,500.

The average salary of an architect working in Atlanta, Georgia is $96,670.

The average salary of an architect working in Sacramento, California is $96,330.

The average salary of an architect working in San Diego is $95,740.

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Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth (AE911Truth) is an American non-profit[1][2] organization of architects and engineers who dispute the results of official investigations into the September 11 attacks, including the 9/11 Commission Report.[3][4]

Founded in 2006, the group demands that the United States Congress pursue "a truly independent investigation" into the September 11 attacks as they believe government agency investigations into the collapse of the World Trade Center have not addressed what it calls "massive evidence for explosive demolition."[5]

Richard Gage, a San Francisco Bay area architect,[6] founded Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth in 2006.[7] Gage, who is a member of the American Institute of Architects,[2] has worked as an architect for 20 years and was involved in the construction of numerous fireproof steel-frame buildings.[8] He became convinced of the need to create an organization that brings together architects and engineers after listening to an independent radio station interview with theologian David Ray Griffin.[7]

The organization continues to collect signatures for a petition that demands an independent investigation with subpoena power of the September 11 attacks, specifically the collapse of the World Trade Center towers and 7 WTC.[2][9] By December 2014, over 2,300 architectural and engineering professionals had signed the petition.[10] According to the organization, the identities and qualifications of all licensed architects and engineers whose names are being published on its website as well as those of other supporters who are listed separately are subjected to verification before acceptance.[11]Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth publishes The Blueprint, a periodic e-mail newsletter.[12]

Gage has given speeches at conferences organized by supporters of the 9/11 Truth movement[13] in various locations in the United States[14] and Canada,[15][16] and has presented his multimedia talk "9/11 Blueprint for Truth The Architecture of Destruction" in 14 countries.[17] His presentations focus on the sequence of events leading to the destruction of the three World Trade Center buildings and include videos of their collapses alongside footage of controlled demolitions.[14] He went on a tour of European countries in 2008[18] and gave speeches in Australia, New Zealand and Japan in 2009.[19] In 2009, Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth had a booth at the annual convention of the American Institute of Architects.[20] AE tried to get the AIA to pass a "Building 7 resolution" - "a Position Statement in support of a new investigation into the complete collapse of 7 World Trade Center on September 11, 2001." However, it failed by a vote of 3,892 to 160 - garnering just over 4% support.[21]

The controversial two-hour movie 9/11 Blueprint for Truth, popular among members of the 9/11 Truth movement, is based on a presentation given by Richard Gage in Canada.[6] Gage was also interviewed for an episode of the BBC television program The Conspiracy Files,[22][22] an episode of the ZDF's series History,[23] based on a co-production of the BBC and the ZDF,[24] as well as for a documentary produced by the Canadian television news magazine The Fifth Estate.[25][26][27]

The organization is the main constituent of the ReThink911 coalition, which ran an advertising campaign putting up signs and billboards in seven U.S. cities, as well as in Vancouver, Toronto, London, and Sydney in 2013.[28]

Members of the organization argue that the buildings of the World Trade Center could not have collapsed only because of the impact of the planes,[29][30] or as a result of the fires that had been caused by them,[31] and claim to have identified evidence pointing to an explosive demolition of the World Trade Center buildings.[32] The group does not blame any particular individuals or organizations for the September 11 attacks,[33][34] and Gage stated that avoiding speculation on the attacks on the Pentagon or on the involvement of the Bush administration was critical to the mission of the organization.[35] However, Gage also said that if the destruction of the World Trade Center was the result of a controlled demolition, this would mean that part of what happened on September 11, 2001, would have been planned by "some sort of an inside group".[36] According to Gage, an elevator modernization program that had taken place before the attacks would have provided an opportunity to get access to the core areas of the WTC towers without creating suspicion.[37]

The organization has compiled a list of criteria for a controlled demolition that it says the collapse of the World Trade Center meets: the destruction followed the path of greatest resistance, the debris was symmetrically distributed, the rapid onset of the destruction, explosions and flashes reported by witnesses, steel elements were expelled from the building at high speed, the pulverization of the concrete, expanding pyroclastic clouds, lack of pancaked stories in the debris, isolated explosions 20 to 40 stories below the wave of destruction, molten steel and thermite traces found in the debris.[8]

Investigations by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have concluded that the buildings collapsed as a result of the impacts of the planes and of the fires that resulted from them.[38][39] In 2005, a report from the National Institute of Standards and Technology concluded that the destruction of the World Trade Center towers was the result of progressive collapse initiated by the jet impacts and the resultant fires. A 2008 NIST report described a similar progressive collapse as the cause of the destruction of the third tallest building located at the World Trade Center site, the 7 WTC. Many mainstream scientists choose not to debate proponents of 9/11 conspiracy theories, saying they do not want to lend them unwarranted credibility.[40] The NIST explanation of collapse is universally accepted by the structural engineering, and structural mechanics research communities.[41]

Gage criticized NIST for not having investigated the complete sequence of the collapse of the World Trade Center towers,[42] and claims that "the official explanation of the total destruction of the World Trade Center skyscrapers has explicitly failed to address the massive evidence for explosive demolition."[43] In particular, Gage argues that the buildings of the World Trade Center could not have collapsed at the speed that has been observed without tearing apart several columns of their structures with the help of explosives.[31] To support its position, Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth points to the "free fall" acceleration of 7 WTC during part of the collapse,[44] to "lateral ejection of steel," and to "mid-air pulverization of concrete."[29] Richard Gage also said that the absence of "large gradual deformations" associated with the collapse would indicate that the buildings have been destroyed by controlled demolition.[45] That the three buildings of the World Trade Center "fell through what should have been the path of greatest resistance" would, according to the organization, require "precisely timed removal of critical columns, which office fires cannot accomplish".[44] As the mass of the top of the North Tower had been blown outward during the collapse, there was "nothing left to drive this building to the ground," Gage says.[46]

Gage maintains that the "sudden and spontaneous" collapse of the towers would have been impossible without a controlled demolition, that pools of molten iron found in the debris of the buildings were evidence of the existence of thermite,[47] and that researchers had found unignited nano-thermite in the dust produced by the collapse of the World Trade Center.[25][44][46][48] Gage argues that this material "is not made in a cave in Afghanistan".[49] Iron-rich micro-spheres, which, according to the organization, have been found in the dust of the World Trade Center buildings by independent laboratory analyses, would indicate temperatures during the collapses much higher than temperatures that would result from hydrocarbon fires.[44] "We have evidence of high tech explosives found in all of the dust, we have evidence of thermite found in the molten iron samples. This cant happen in normal office fires. They dont have half the temperature required to melt steel, so where did the molten iron come from?" Gage asks.[50] A DVD produced by the group contains eyewitness accounts of explosions and flashes seen in the buildings.[51]

In 2008, Zdenk P. Baant, professor of civil engineering and materials science at Northwestern University, published with three coauthors a paper to examine whether allegations of controlled demolition might be scientifically justifiable. They found that the available video records are not consistent with the free fall hypothesis, that the size of the concrete particles is consistent with comminution caused by impact, and that the high velocity of compressed air explains why material from the towers were ejected to a distance of several hundred meters from the tower. The authors conclude that the allegations of controlled demolition do not have any scientific merit.[52] A spokesman for NIST said that any sightings of molten metal, including metal seen pouring from the South tower, were likely molten aluminum from the airplane, an explanation disputed by Richard Gage who stated that the color of the molten metal rules out aluminum.[5] "Basically, gravity and the utter force of the upper floors forced the towers down," said NIST spokesperson Michael Newman.[46]

According to Richard Gage, 7 World Trade Center (7 WTC), a 47-story high-rise building that was part of the World Trade Center complex and collapsed in the afternoon on September 11, 2001, is the "smoking gun" of September 11,[44][53] providing the most compelling evidence that something was suspect about the building's collapse that had not been told to the public.[54][55] Gage also described 7 WTC as "the most obvious example of controlled demolition."[56] According to Richard Gage, the only way to bring a building down with free-fall acceleration would be to remove its columns, which provide resistance to the force of gravity.[57] Scott Grainger, a fire protection engineer and member of the group, told the BBC that the evidence he had seen indicated the fires in 7 WTC were scattered about on the floors and would have moved on as they would have found no more combustibles. He thus claims that the fires could not have developed enough heat to cause the collapse of the building.[56]

Gage dismisses the explanation of the collapse of 7 World Trade Center given by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), according to which uncontrolled fires and the buckling of a critical support column caused the collapse, and argues that this would not have led to the uniform way the building actually collapsed. "The rest of the columns could not have been destroyed sequentially so fast to bring this building straight down into its own footprint," he says.[25] Richard Gage argues that skyscrapers that have suffered "hotter, longer lasting and larger fires" have not collapsed.[53] "Buildings that fall in natural processes fall to the path of least resistance," says Gage, "they don't go straight down through themselves."[58] Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth also questions the computer models used by NIST, and argues that evidence pointing to the use of explosives had been omitted in its report on the collapse of 7 WTC.[59]

The community of experts in structural mechanics and structural engineering generally supports the explanation of the collapse of the World Trade Center buildings provided by the investigation conducted by NIST.[60] The appearance of a controlled demolition can be explained by an interior failure of the building, which is suggested by the sequence of the collapse of 7 WTC that shows roof elements sinking into the building while the faade remained intact.[61]

Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth has expressed concerns that evidence related to the destruction of the World Trade Center could have been distorted and covered up by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), which conducted a building and fire safety investigation, one of the official investigations into the event. According to the group, and NIST themselves who considered it unnecessary, NIST did not look for physical evidence of explosives[25][44] and did not include the eyewitness accounts from first responders and from people who escaped the buildings in their investigation.[5] The organization also alleges that much of the physical evidence, apart from a few selected samples of the steel, would have been destroyed.[44] Gage criticizes that taped eyewitness interviews that were released to the New York Times in August 2005 had been "hidden by the city of New York".[5]

After the publication of the results of NIST's inquiry into the collapse of 7 WTC, Richard Gage called a news conference,[62] and leaders of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth dismissed NIST's investigation as flawed. When told of the claims, Shyam Sunder, lead investigator from NIST, responded: "I am really not a psychologist. Our job was to come up with the best science."[38] A spokesperson for NIST said the agency's computer models were highly reliable in assessing the amount of fireproofing dislodged, a factor that would not be present in other steel buildings cited by Gage.[5]

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SDM Architects is an experienced firm of architects in Mumbai, India. Our two principal architects have a combined experience of over 20 years in architectural design. We believe in doing work of the highest possible quality, and lavish care on both fundamental design ideas as well as minute details.

SDM Architects works in the areas of sustainable design, office building design, institutional building design, industrial architecture, residential building design, master planning, affordable housing, hospital design, aircraft hangar design,urban design, and related areas.

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Diversification across complimentary market sectors is key to M+As success. For each of these specialities, there is a studio of professionals who are passionate and focused on architecture function, style and trends relative to their specific market. Because of this broad, in-house knowledge, M+A can pull resources, as needed, into your project, bridging perspectives and drawing inspiration during the creative process.

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Envisioning your space before it's built, or during the design process, helps communicate design concepts and keep expectations alignedwhether it's for project understanding, for your investors, or to fuel a capital campaign.

While certification may not be the pathway for all projects, we can design to fulfill any level of sustainable design you desire including achieving a variety of certifications - LEED, WELL, and Living-Building Challenge.

Creating environments that work on an aesthetic and functional level, interior design is an extension of the buildings architectural concepts. We seamlessly tie the two together by incorporating unique design details that represent the distinctive aspects of your business.

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nARCHITECTS was listed in 2014 as one of the top 50 architecture firms in the US by Architect Magazine, with a ranking of 7th in the design category. In 2012, World Architecture News named nARCHITECTS part of a select group crowned to lead the next generation of designers in the 21st century. National and international recognition includes a New York City Public Design Commission Award, AIA NY Design Honor and Merit Awards, The Architectural League of New Yorks Emerging Voices, the Canadian Professional Rome Prize, Architectural Records Design Vanguard and two New York Foundation for the Arts grants.

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