Ok, Final count down…..final shoot of My Mo Space
Archive for November, 2008
Coming soon…..Martin Margiela’s 20 years in fashion exhibition in MOMU of Antwerp is the most impressive and inspiring fashion exhibition I have seen so far. Highly recommend if you have a chance to visit Antwerp! Don’t forget MOMU…….. Continue reading ‘Martin Margiela@MOMU, Antwerp’
Finally, my winning entry ‘Reef Surface Mobile Island’ (highlighted on blue color) for Environmental Tectonics Competition is published and the book launch will be on Tuesday 25 Nov between 12 to 2:30pm at AA School. See detail below:
Book Release
In 2006 and 2007 the Environmental, Ecology and Sustainability Research Cluster sponsored the Environmental Tectonics competition. For the compilation of the book the curators sought projects that redefined common environmental parameters and explored design potential – while formulating critical and informed responses to the relation between aesthetics, ethics, tectonics and qualitative environments. The competition offered a unique opportunity to exhibit and publish relevant and important new projects as well as to understand current strands of investigation within this realm. Throughout, the focus of the publication is on ideas – ideas arising from an exploration of the complex variables surrounding environmental, sustainable and climatic design. The collected work looks beyond the typical carbon conservation solutions and instead finds resonance in projects that celebrate, organize and uncover new potentials in environmental design.
A few excerpts from the book are posted on:
The book is available for purchase for £15.00 from AA Publications and to mark the publication, will be available for £10.00 on Tuesday 25 November between 12.00 and 2.30 in the Back Members’ Room at the Architectural Association.
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There were over 160 entries, many of them produced by teams, bringing the total numbers involved to around 250 students and professionals from more than 20 countries. The book contains a cross-section of entries and associated activities along with articles from invited authors that punctuate the sections of work.
Contents
6 Preface by Steve Hardy
8 Ironies, Impracticalities and Ecologies by Brett Steele
11 Environmental Tectonics: A Call for Projects Competition
Morphological
14 Environmental Morphologies by Steve Hardy 20 BAD (Bath) by SMAQ – Sabine Müller, Andreas Quednau
24 Eco-Boulevard by Belinda Tato Serrano, Jose Luis Vallejo Mateo, Diego Garcia-Setien Terol
28 Hydro Wall by Virginia San Fratello
30 Koivu Tree by Tuomas Pirinen
34 Marine Cultivation Park by Erik Brett Jacobsen
38 Biot(r)ope Sensorium by Ross McLean
Ornamental
42 Environmental Ornamentation by Anne Save de Beaurecueil and Franklin Lee
48 Reef Surface Mobile Islands by William Hai Liang Chen
52 Private Sun/Public Shadow by Dusanka Popovska, Galit Shiff
54 Orchid Water Garden by Vincent Young
56 Fogharvester by Toby Burgess
58 Dirty Geometry Pavilions by Peter Macapia
60 Storm Watershed by Dan Marks
64 Synthetic Gardens: An Architecture of Vibrant Substrates
by Daniel Norell, Ellie Abrons, Adam Fure Sustainable
68 Sustainable Environmental Design by Simos Yannas74 Handmade School by Anna Heringer, Eike Roswag
76 Eureka School by Vennila Thirumavalavan
78 Wet Wall by Watson Architecture + Design – Robert Watson, Steffen Mattaboni, Mark Cummins, Matthew Dingle
80 PhotoThermHouse by Mattias Rubin de Lima
84 Living Delta by Rafiq Azam
86 Mews House NW6 by Jonathan PileGlobal
90 Recombinant Ecologies by Andrei Martin with projects by Mohamed Abdelghafar, Darren Chan, Natalie Ghatan, Alex Jones
96 Vertical Farm by Chung Yin Ho
98 Shibaura Island Tower by Christopher Robeller
100 Radiant Hydronic and Lattice Houses by Tom Wiscombe
102 Condensation4645 by Poyuan Huang
Ecological
108 EcoMachines by Marco Poletto
116 Metabolicopera by Anna Dyson, Maria-Paz Gutierrez, Derek Keil, Sylvia Krajewski, Marion Jones
118 Machine + City by Kwok Wah Tung
120 Sustainable Housing Neighbourhood by Florian Heinzelmann, Takeru Sato
122 Aqua Cells by Fotios Vasilakis, Fani Natou
124 Climodynamic Appliances by EcoLogic Studio & AA Summer School
128 Re-Sustenance by Richard Saunders, Akram Fahmi
130 Tower of Winds by Cordula Weisser, Jon Goodbun, Brian Ford, Aran Chadwick Climatological
134 Landscape Issues by Sandra Morris
140 VOL///|||ET02 by Eduardo De Oliveira Barata
142 Dry Water by Daniel Talesnik
144 Down to Earth by Ruth Kedar
146 Wasteland by Pierre Belanger, Dave Christensen, Josh Cohen, Maya Przybylski, Jimenez Lai, Marcin Kedzior, Deanna Wasyliuk, Kim Ligers, Thomas Smahel, Rick Hippocite, Eryn Stoddart, Caria Muñoz-Puente, Melanie Kramer, Davide Gianforcaro, Gabriella Aviad
148 CPULS4TG2016 by Katrin Bohn, Andreas Viljoen, Jorge Peña Díaz
150 Hydro-Urbanism by Minseok Kim
Environmental Tectonics: A Call for Projects
154 2006 Competition Results
156 2007 Competition Results
159 Environmental Tectonics Participants
You can visit my company’s Archimo team on http://uk.movember.com/mospace/1781236
Or You can donate to my Mo by either:
1. Clicking this link https://www.movember.com/uk/donate/donate-details.php?action=sponsorlink®o=2160991&country=uk and donating online using your credit card or PayPal account, or
2. Writing a cheque payable to ‘The Prostate Cancer Charity Re: Movember’, referencing my Registration Number 2160991 and mailing it to:
The Prostate Cancer Charity
First Floor Cambridge House
100 Cambridge Grove
Hammersmith
London W6 OLE
The money raised by Movember is used to raise awareness of men’s health issues and donated to The Prostate Cancer Charity which will have an enormous impact on many men’s lives and the awareness will help us to fight prostate cancer on every front – through research, support, information and campaigning.
Did you know:
- Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men in the UK. 35,000 men are diagnosed every year and one man dies every hour.
- 1 in 11 UK men will be diagnosed in their lifetime .
For those that have supported Movember in previous years you can be very proud of the impact it has had and can check out the details at:
[ Fundraising Outcomes ]. Movember culminates at the end of month Gala Partés. If you would like to be part of this great night you’ll need to purchase a [Gala Parté Ticket].
Thanks for your support,
Will
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How to Survive the Coming US Dollar Collapse
Currencies / US Dollar Nov 07, 2008 – 04:24 AM
By: Christopher_Laird
Now that the US election is over, we get to think about the Future. And, no matter how you look at it, the entire world, the West particularly, is in for tough sledding financially.
First, we will continue to battle an emerging economic slowdown. Then, later, we will be battling world currency instability – we already have signs of this now.
Even though gold and commodities have taken a big hit because of a general liquidation in everything, there is one thing none of us should lose sight of, and that is what happens when the USD finally lets go.
Why the USD is presently rallying
Just because the USD happens to be rallying now (with weekly fluctuations) does not mean that its fate is not bleak. There are many reasons the USD is rallying right now. They include flight to cash in general during market liquidations in all areas, but also cash hoarding because businesses cannot roll over the short term credit they use to do payrolls and ongoing operations. Then we have the usual end of year cash surge for businesses and financial institutions. Then of course there is flight to the USD for safety, and then finally, other countries currencies are adjusting to the slowing world economy, and the once hot foreign markets are cooling and there is lots of money moving out of the ‘emerging’ markets.
But, we are going to be facing two particular problems in 09 that none of us is really used to, that we really have never seen. The world is going to have a severe recession bordering on an economic depression. Essentially no one alive today knows what that is like. Only the oldest of us have lived through that experience.
But then, on top of that, at some point later the USD will finally collapse. This is not something way way out there in the future. This issue is becoming a near term threat.
What has held the USD up and why that’s going to change Continue reading ‘How to Survive the Coming US Dollar Collapse’
Stunned Icelanders Struggle After Economy’s Fall
From the New York Times
REYKJAVIK, Iceland — The collapse came so fast it seemed unreal, impossible. One woman here compared it to being hit by a train. Another said she felt as if she were watching it through a window. Another said, “It feels like you’ve been put in a prison, and you don’t know what you did wrong.”
This country, as modern and sophisticated as it is geographically isolated, still seems to be in shock. But if the events of last month — the failure of Iceland’s banks; the plummeting of its currency; the first wave of layoffs; the loss of reputation abroad — felt like a bad dream, Iceland has now awakened to find that it is all coming true.
It is not as if Reykjavik, where about two-thirds of the country’s 300,000 people live, is filled with bread lines or homeless shanties or looters smashing store windows. But this city, until recently the center of one of the world’s fastest economic booms, is now the unhappy site of one of its great crashes. It is impossible to meet anyone here who has not been profoundly affected by the financial crisis.
Overnight, people lost their savings. Prices are soaring. Once-crowded restaurants are almost empty. Banks are rationing foreign currency, and companies are finding it dauntingly difficult to do business abroad. Inflation is at 16 percent and rising. People have stopped traveling overseas. The local currency, the krona, was 65 to the dollar a year ago; now it is 130. Companies are slashing salaries, reducing workers’ hours and, in some instances, embarking on mass layoffs.
“No country has ever crashed as quickly and as badly in peacetime,” said Jon Danielsson, an economist with the London School of Economics.
The loss goes beyond the personal, shattering a proud country’s sense of itself.
“Years ago, I would say that I was Icelandic and people might say, ‘Oh, where’s that?’ ” said Katrin Runolfsdottir, 49, who was fired from her secretarial job on Oct. 31. “That was fine. But now there’s this image of us being overspenders, thieves.”
Aldis Nordfjord, a 53-year-old architect, also lost her job last month. So did all 44 of her co-workers — everyone in the company except its owners. As many as 75 percent of Iceland’s private-sector architects have probably been fired in the past few weeks, she said.
In a strange way, she said, it is comforting to be one in a crowd. “Everyone is in the same situation,” she said. “If you can imagine, if only 10 out of 40 people had been fired, it would have been different; you would have felt, ‘Why me? Why not him?’ ” Continue reading ‘Pray for my architect friends in Iceland’
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