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Designed by: Mark Tynan & William Chen
ResoNet awakens from a dormant sleep to ‘Bloom’ in Frankfurt’s green-belt. Emerging from its origins in the forests of Cumbria; it morphs to reform in the urban forests of skyscrapers and buildings.
ResoNet visualises the resonant frequencies inherent in the surrounding environment, via the interaction of the public and adjacent stimulus detected by the LED net. By using Lo-Fi techniques ResoNet creates a cascade of light triggered by the vibrations detected across the structure. Continue reading ‘ResoNet at Luminale Biennale, Frankfurt’
Robert Peston (RP): George Soros, you were one of those who warned that a financial crisis was looming. Now that the acute phase is past, do you think we’ve seen yet the kind of reforms we need to make the banking system safe?
George Soros (GS) Not at all. We are at the very early stage of that discussion. Now we can take time because what happened in 2008 is not going to be repeated for the next 50 years or so, so we have time to redesign the system. And actually the way we’re correcting the collapse is a two-way, two-step manoeuvre. When a car for instance is skidding, first you have to turn the wheel in the same direction and then you turn it back. So we are still … we have not yet completed the first stage. Now during that stage, you have to rebuild the capital of the banks. We are actually doing it the wrong way, we can talk about it, but that’s the phase we are in. Continue reading ‘Davos 2010: George Soros full interview’
This video shows the amazing architecture of this lakeside hotel in Nanjing, China. The hotel is the legacy behind the CIPEA project ( China International Practical Exhibition of Architecture), where 24 world renowned architects from 15 countried gathered at the lush shore of Foshou Lake, each designing a fuctional building of the hotel/resort. Easily recognized amongst the designers include established names Irata Isozaki of Japan, Steven Holl of the US, and Ettore Sortsaas of Italy. Also participated are architect David Adjaye of the UK, Mathias Klotz of Chile. Odelie Decq of France, and many other most innovative and awarded architects. The hotel has 20 individual villas, 300+ luxurious hotel rooms, a modern art museum, a conference centre and a recreational centre & spa.
佛手湖，建筑师Architects: 周恺 马清运 张雷 Mathias Klotz Hrvoje Njiric David Adjaye Sean Godsell Odilie Decq 刘珩， 姚仁喜 Gabor Bachman 汤桦 王澍 艾未未 张永和 崔恺 Alberto Kalach Matti Sanaksenaho
(Ou Ning, Venice, June 6, 2009. Photograph by Xiao Quan.)
Founder and creative director of CDR, New Architecturespecial correspondent, William Hailiang Chen has recently interviewed Ou Ning who is the chief curator for 2009 Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism \ Architecture. Full article of interview is in Chinese and will be featured in December issue of Chinese magazine – New Architecture. There will be an English version available after the translation process is finished. Curator Ou came to London for biennale’s European preview at the Architecture Foundation on 27th/28th. Due to his busy schedule in London, the final interview was realised on Skype online on 8pm London time 10th November when he was in Shenzhen. Special thanks to Gangyi Tang and Hua Li’s assistance.
Documentary on the events that led to the economic collapse of Argentina in 2001 which wiped out the middle class and raised the level of poverty to 57.5%. Central to the collapse was the implementation of neo-liberal policies which enabled the swindle of billions of dollars by foreign banks and corporations. Many of Argentina’s assets and resources were shamefully plundered. Its financial system was even used for money laundering by Citibank, Credit Suisse, and JP Morgan. The net result was massive wealth transfers and the impoverishment of society which culminated in many deaths due to oppression and malnutrition. Official name: Memoria del Saqueo by Fernando Solanas 2003. Continue reading ‘Argentina’s Economic Collapse’
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ResoNet (www.reso-net.org ) recently has been voted by netizens for inclusion in the Open Archive, part of the exhibition Toward the Sentient City (www.sentientcity.net) at the Urban Center in New York City(September 17 – November 7, 2009). The exhibition is curated by Mark Shepard and organized by The Architectural League of New York (www.archleague.org )
ResoNet project video was selected and uploaded into ipod touches which allow audience to watch during the exhibition period. ResoNet video was made in collaboration with CDR‘s member Tiantian Zhu who made the sound design. For full project information and video, please see below: Continue reading ‘ResoNet at Toward the Sentient City Exhibition, NY’
“The future will be a total disaster, with a collapse of our capitalistic system as we know it today, wars, massive government debt defaults and the impoverishment of large segments of Western society,” Marc Faber writes in the September issue of The Gloom, Boom & Doom Report.A statement like that pretty much speaks for itself, but it’s a bit more complicated than appears on first blush.
Faber has been bullish — especially on commodities and emerging market stocks — for some time now and believes the current global recovery trade will last another two-to-three years, as discussed in more detail in a forthcoming clip. But he has major long-term concerns about the dollar’s long-term viability given rising U.S. deficits, massive unfunded mandates and the fact “we have a money-printer at the Fed.”
This combination will eventually lead to runaway inflation, wholesale debasement of the dollar, and a major lowering of living standards for most Americans and many Europeans as well, says Faber, who is “highly confident” in this grim prediction.
In a SPIEGEL interview, Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, 55, discusses his astronomical bonuses, the mistakes and failures of his bank prior to the start of the global financial crisis and his proposals for better regulating financial markets.
SPIEGEL: Mr. Blankfein, two years ago, your $67.9 million bonus was the largest ever paid to a Wall Street banker. You recently said that you could understand the anger that people are expressing over inflated bonuses. How are we to understand this?
Blankfein: I think people legitimately question whether compensation is tied to performance and, looking back, they see that some people were enriched but did not seem to have any alignment with their shareholders. A large part of the compensation paid to our senior people, including mine, is paid in shares, which may be worth less or more depending on our performance well after they were granted. This is what our shareholders want and we are convinced of this alignment of interests.
William Hailiang Chen, London UK. Photographer/Architectural Researcher
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