Friday, April 17, 2009

Is It Unhealthy To Sit Next To Printers

THE 50 BUILDING THE WORLD'S MOST AMAZING


I leave a page in my opinion, interesting.
are certainly quite impressive.


Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Does Miosotis Still Alive

Conference

Friday 17 April, in ETSAM Hall (Avenida Juan Herrera, No. 4) Norman Foster, led by Professor Luis Fdez Galiano architectural projects, will give a conference that will start at 12:00.

Monday, April 13, 2009

Bath Toys Water Wheel

Peter Zumthor Norman Foster received the Pritzker Architecture Prize 2009

of Scalae.net

The awards ceremony takes place on 29 May in Buenos Aires will be the first time you perform in South America.

this year's jury consisted of: Peter Palumbo (England), Alejandro Aravena (Chile), Shigeru Ban (Japan), Rolf Fehlbaum (Switzerland), Carlos Jiménez (Costa Rica), Juhani Pallasmaa (Finland), Renzo Piano (Italy), Karen Stein and Martha Thorne (USA).

Architect "monk" states that "the power of a good project lies in ourselves and in our ability to perceive the world with feeling and reason. A good architectural design is sensory. A good architectural design is rational. " (Thinking Architecture by Peter Zumthor)

His work incorporates quality craftsmanship with a deep interest in the knowledge of modern thought. His most representative work is the building of the baths in Vaals in Switzerland (1991-96) whose main themes are: the mountains, stay inside, rocks, stone and water treated. Through crevices, joints and spaces between the stone blocks, run the water enters the light and the grass grow. Another of his most iconic buildings is the Chapel Sogn-Benedetg (Sumvitg, 1988) , where its realization refers to the traditional Swiss wall construction based on wood chips, where the traditional and contemporary touch.

Throughout his career Peter Zumthor has received numerous honors and awards, the Gold Medal Tessenow Heinrich (1989), Calberg Architecture Prize (1998), the Mies van der Rohe (1998), honorary member of Royal Institute of British Architects (2000) and Japan's Imperial Prize (2008)


here is a gallery collected by the NY Times, which you can see the 3 most important works, in my opinion (admittedly is that those are the ones studied)

Treadmill Dizzy After Cool Down

Contemporary Architecture live their golden age (Article)

I attached a link to an interesting article I've seen ... pretty interesantee!
[Daniel Libeskind, Jurgen Mayer, Adrian Smith, Norman Foster, Turenscape, Kazuyo Sejima].
http://www.arq.com.mx/noticias/Detalles/10257.html?utm_source=boletin284&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=boletin284

Sunday, April 5, 2009

Chemical Reactions To Move A Car

Snohetta - Norwegian Opera and Ballet

The Opera House in Norway was built in five years in the city of Oslo is located in the neighborhood of opera houses, next to the Exchange and the central station.
The building occupies a space equivalent to four football fields, has three stages and contains a total of 1,100 rooms.

The main auditorium, whose shape resembles a horseshoe, it has great versatility scenic and excellent acoustics. The stage has an area of \u200b\u200bseveral thousand square meters and parts are up to 16 meters below sea level.
The main auditorium has been built with oak from the Baltic.
Outside the building, the most impressive structure is the sloping stone white stems directly from the fjord Oslofjord and gives visitors the opportunity to enjoy a walk and views of the city.
The facades of the building has solar panels, allowing the building to supply its energy needs.

After its inauguration in April 2008, the Opera House, designed by renowned Norwegian study Snøhetta architecture, was the center of attention and received countless rave reviews in Norway and abroad.

In October 2008 the Norwegian Opera and Ballet received the award in the Culture category of the first World Architecture Festival. Jurors, Peter Cook, Christoph Ingenhoven and John Walsh felt that the Oslo Opera is a very professional work of architecture that has managed to carry out fairly complicated programming consistency and clarity.

Weighted Vests Basketball Dangerous

Proposal Competition for the coastline of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria


Well gentlemen, here we are returning to the blog.
wanted an eye made the proposal made by the Professor of Urban
of 3 of the IE School, Gonzalo Melian with Puertaverde study.
is a competition for the redevelopment of the seafront in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. The
Key points of the project are:
1.THE
CONTACT SEA GREEN SPACES
2.Hydrogen
3.Equipment: POLES AND URBAN PATHWAYS
4.INFRAESTRUCTURAS: RECOVERY OF MARITIME AVENUE ECONOMIC 5.SOSTENIBILIDAD
MANAGEMENT
6.SECTORIZACIÓN
If you have the opportunity to experience the city of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, you will be agree that it is a fairly accurate proposal.
a look at the proposal on this page http://www.puertaverdearquitectura.blogspot.com/

Saturday, April 4, 2009

Hydrochloride-dihydrochloride

Google Reader

You want to know and follow the news from this blog without check you regularly?

:: URL: www.google.com / reader

:: Birth: October 2005 (see news )

:: What is 'Google Reader'?
is a tool to manage and view all the 'feeds' web site in which we are interested.

The 'feeds' are small files (for example, on our website is this: http://somos-arquitectos.blogspot.com) including news of a website, and are written in a standardized way to in this way can be read by programs computer, such as 'Google Reader'.

So instead of constantly visiting the 100 sites that we tend to read often, we simply add the 100 feeds for 'Google Reader', which is responsible to warn of new developments in each of these sites web. They have

feeds almost all blogs, and increasingly information websites such as online newspapers. We simply copy the feed URL, click on the link 'Add a Feed' in 'Google Reader' and wait for updates to occur, of which we promptly informed.

You can also click on buttons like this you'll see on some websites:

:: How much is 'Google Reader'?
Nothing. Zero. It's free and only need a user account Google .

:: What other tools provide similar services? Bloglines
, Feedness (in English) or Newsgator .

removed from the google web

Friday, April 3, 2009

Aggressive Inline Scholarships

MIES VAN DER ROHE, 2009, against Bologna FINALISTS Firms


From wikipedia

Conmtemporánea Architecture Prize Mies van der Rohe Mies Van der Rohe is an architectural award granted by the European Union and Mies Van Rohe Barcelona of every 2 years since 1988 .

Prize for Contemporary Architecture The most important of the European Union. Is endowed with 50,000 euros and a sculpture evoking the German Pavilion of Mies van der Rohe.


long ago left the 5 finalists (11 Feb 09) of this prestigious award, one of the winner will pick up the baton from the previous edition (MUSAC Mansilla + Tuñón). These five finalists were chosen from a total of 340 entries received, you can see photos of these here.

The jury chaired by Francis Rambert, and comprising: Ole Bouman, Irena Fialová, Fulvio Irace, Luis M. Mansilla, Carme Pinos and Vasa J. Perović, nominated as finalists in the following works:


Grafton Architects - Luigi Bocconi University

(Photo: Federico Bunetti)

RCR Architects - Library, Center for seniors and block interior district of Sant Antoni
(Photo: Hisao Suzuki)


RCR Arquitectes / Biblioteca, centro para la tercera edad e interior de manzana del distrito de Sant Antoni (Foto de: Hisao Suzuki)


Atelier Marc Barani - Nice Tramway Multimodal Center

(Photo: Hardphot Schejbal)



Massimiliano Fuksas Architecture - Zenith Music Hall
(Photo From Moreno Maggi)



Snohetta - Norwegian Opera and Ballet
(Photo: Jens Passoth)

Snohetta / Ópera y Balet de Noruega (Foto de: Jens Passoth)

What do you think?, by what apostaríais?, what he calls you more attention?


Darius

Source: Platform architecture