"Magazine Remastering"

Well, there are only few things that I dislike about the magazine. First, I don´t really like the front page of the magazine, it shows an old famous reporter man, some old people would buy the magazine only for the demonstration of Larry´s King house. The front page must have a marvelous or modern architectural buildings, that must have leave an impact on the people that watches it. Second, the magazine has too many advertisings and I can bet that the half of the magazine it´s composed of them. I would eliminate all the annoying advertisings. And Third, the articles from the magazine are good but the majority (not to mention all) are more focused in interior designing than architectural designing and exteriors. I would change those articles for more architectural-focused articles.
As fun, I created a more exiting front page for the magazine (left).

"The feeling is in the air"

When I see this keyboard, it inspires me a feeling of liberty and flexibility. It inspires me the feeling that every pianist can rock as same as a guitarist.

Magazine Article: "Lilypad cities"

As a solution to the rising of the sea level during the last and the future years caused by global warming, architect Vincent Callebaut came up with this ecotectural marvel that could be used as a future retreat for 50,000 inhabitants seeking refuge from rising waters due to global warming. Vincent Callebaut named this project “Lilypad“, but this ecotectural building is also called as “Floating Ecopolis for Climate Refugees”. The whole structure is covered in green walls and roofs, the top portion covered in grasses with the inner portion featuring a palm oasis, and the under portion serving as a bed for natural sea planktons and oceanic plants.

A lake in the middle of the island will collect and then purify rain water, while power will be provided through a series of renewable energy sources including thermal, solar, wind energy, hydraulic and a tidal power station.
It will produce more energy than it consumes and would be considered "zero-emission" because all the carbon dioxide and waste will be recycled.

Acording to Callebaut, this project will be feasible to implement around the year 2010.

This project is very interesting, because it is focused in the near future, and it will very beneficial to world refugees. Nowadays, we see that a lot of people have already been affected by natural disasters and they are very in need, this project will be very helpful and charitative.

Magazine Article: "Braces buildings against Earthquakes"

Researchers at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan have developed a new method for bracing high rise concrete buildings. By reinforcing the concrete with steel fibers, they were able to design coupling beams (beams used to connect walls around openings like windows and door frames) that are both easier to construct and more effective than traditional coupling beams. A test structure using these new beams was shown to be able to withstand a fake earthquake stronger than any real earthquake ever recorded.

Openings like windows, door frames, and elevator shafts tend to weaken a structure. Coupling beams try to mitigate this weakness by providing extra reinforcement in the vulnerable areas. Using a test structure of a 40 percent replica of a four story wall, the beams withstood a peak load of 300,000 pounds with a three degree drift (a measurement of the movement of the top of the building versus the bottom of the building).

Even in large earthquakes, buildings rarely experience more than a one or two degree drift.In addition to being stronger, easier, and more effective, the steel fiber reinforced beams are also expected to be less expensive than the traditional coupling beams in widespread use today.

The success of the initial test, conducted at the University of Michigan’s Structural Engineering Laboratory facility, which was designed and specially reinforced for earthquake testing, prompted researchers to plan to install the beams in several high rise buildings scheduled for construction on the west coast of the United States, where earthquakes are most prevalent.

Magazine Article: "One Central Park Tower"

This article talks about how architect David M.Childs designed and built the AOL Time Warner Center (mainly the Mandarin Oriental Hotel inside of the early named building) at New York.

The south tower of AOL Time Warner Center is entirely residential; the north tower combines the forthcoming Mandarin Oriental Hotel with apartments above.

Bisected by a huge core that conceals the tower stair, elevators and ducts from the mechanical floors above, the floor plan offers more than 2 000 square feet beyond the grandest luxury standard for a Manhattan apartment that is not a duplex.
Robert A. M. Stern, the interior architect of the Mandarin Hotel, chose not to imagine a client with particular style. Instead, his strategy was to create the kind of spaces to be found in pre-World War II New York City apartments or in a grand house. He proposed classical columns,paneling and crown moldings for conventionally shaped rooms.

The windows are separated by pilasters, to conceal draperies and provide surfaces of art. The entrance hall, living room and master bedroom overlook Central Park. Informal living spaces and secondary bedrooms face the Hudson.

In each hotel room, all furnishings, fabrics and artworks shown in the renderings are inspired by real ones. The master bedroom, bath, and dressing and gym areas make up the entire 90-foot length of the north wall. The 120-foot long east facade defines the rest of the living space, which includes an enclosed Japanese-style meditation room and long linear pool with a bridge.


In conclusion, the interior designer Thad Hayes talks about his clients experience at the hotel:"I imagined a man or a woman who was a spiritual person, with an interest in Japanese religion and culture, but who is also involved with many people and projects".

Activity: "Robomind"

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Magazine Article: "Pushing the envelope"

Netherlands as a first-world country, is place where the modernist architectural movement has been in presence and, after the World War II, the three largest cities of this country have been rebuilt and there is where the modernism fits in. Government and public buildings in Netherlands are modernist buildings, thus, houses too.

The architectural firm Hariri & Hariri, the firm of of two Iranian-born sisters, Gisue and Mojgan Hariri, has designed a very original modernist three-floor house with open spaces and a very unusual distribution of the house, at the city of The Hague, Netherlands.

The sisters designed this house with the space assigned by the house developer firm, and maximize the interior square footage. The house consists of four bedrooms, three baths and a living and dinning room.

One unusual detail of the house is the garage; its walls are made of glass, and is connected to the living room. The designer says: "We tucked the car into the building so it comes a piece of sculpture and a part of the living room".

This project has no doubt that is representative of the architectural modernism.