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Architect Evelyn Darcy with Transition Year students from St Josephs Secondary School Stoneybatter, Dublin 7. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons
Architecture has quietly been introduced to some secondary schools in Ireland as architects leave their design studios and building sites to work on short-term projects with students .
The impetus for such excursions comes from the Irish Architecture Foundation (IAF) which launched an education programme four years ago with A Space for Learning, a design competition to challenge current thinking on school design. More than 1,500 students worked with 120 architects in 90 schools on that project which resulted in a touring exhibition in 2010/2011.
The latest IAF initiative, the National Architects in Schools programme, sees architects working with Transition-Year students in 25 schools in Cork, Donegal, North Dublin, Galway and Wexford. The programme is funded by the Arts Council, the Department of Education and Skills, and the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.
We realised there was a need to provide students with real access to architects to interpret their environment, explains Rachel McAree, IAF education curator. Design journals were published as an optional resource for architects, teachers and students.
Many of the architects in the initiative discovered TY students often dont know much about the role and impact of architecture in their lives but once they engage with the subject, they have plenty of ideas, especially about how their school environment could be improved.
The students in the all-girls secondary school, St Josephs in Stoneybatter, Dublin developed clever new ideas on how to bring more light and space into their dark, crowded stairways and corridors. I really enjoyed working with other students and learning about peoples different perspectives, as well as being able to see how we can make a practical change in our school, says Monika Janas, one of the TY students in St Josephs.
The Architects in Schools module was a compulsory rather than an elective module for many of the participants. Some study art, others do construction studies. As part of their introduction to light, shape and symmetry, the groups looked at unusual and inspiring buildings, including Dublins Custom House, the Sydney Opera House, an underwater hotel in Dubai, spherical tree houses in Canada and an innovative interior of a Copenhagen school. Their tasks include drawing their favourite room, looking at how their classrooms work, mapping out their school and looking at ways it could be improved. Each group made 3D models of their re-imagined spaces.
We divided students into three groups to see ways the corridor, classroom and canteen could be improved with different wall colours, adding plants, changing furniture or floor covering and adding things like a roof garden, explains architect Evelyn Darcy, who worked with the TY students at St Josephs.
Eamonn Greville, senior architect at the Department of Education and Skills says these students are tapping into more contemporary school design ideas that are already on the agenda for architects of school buildings. We now see corridors as a transitional space which can function as a vibrant social space to sit down, chat, look at something and as spaces where you can bring students together, he says.
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World-renowned architects, planners, artists and designers will feature in the up-coming Communiqu lecture series at the University of Auckland.
Hosted by the School of Architecture and Planning and supported by Transforming Cities, this years theme is 'A place to live with many speakers focusing on housing in Auckland, a topic of increasing concern to many people.
Communiqu lectures target issues relevant to architecture and planning, but intentionally seek to present an expansive view of these subjects. The aim is to foster critical discussion and debate. Among this years outstanding speakers are award-winning international architects Brigitte Shim, Esa Laaksonen, David Howell and Alejandro Haiek Coll.
- Brigitte Shim, and her partner Howard Sutcliffe of Shim-Sutcliffe Architects in Toronto, are recipients of a 2014 University of Auckland Distinguished Visitors Award. In their work Shim-Sutcliffe seek to intertwine light, water and landscape in exploratory and innovative ways while reflecting a shared interest and passion for the integration and interrelated scales of architecture, landscape and furniture. In her lecture Shim will link early work and recent work and the shifting scales within each project. Shim-Sutcliffe are the recipients of twelve Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Governor Generals Medals and Awards for Architecture and last year they were both awarded the Order of Canada.
- Helsinki architect Esa Laaksonen will focus on archetypal architect and particularly Alvar Aaltos French masterpiece Maison Carr. The house, completed in 1959 for the wealthy art dealer Louis Carr, is considered a work of art with Finnish design and craftsmanship. The interiors were constructed to accommodate Carrs extensive collection of Modern art and remain exceptional within the Aalto oeuvre.
- New Zealand-born, New York-based David Howell has a 25-year background as an architect and designer. He established his first solo architecture practice in Auckland in 1990 before relocating to New York and founding DHD Architecture & Design. His work is distinguished by the pairing of distinct philosophies from two hemispheres, where the towering history of New York and Americas architectural traditions merge with the indoor-outdoor living, modern idioms, and relaxed environmental design common to New Zealand. He has produced a wide range of award-winning buildings in the United States and beyond, including commercial, residential, retail, and hospitality projects. He will be presenting a selection of his recent works.
- Alejandro Haiek Colls projects in South America, focused on abandoned urban sites as spaces for regeneration, have a strong social component. Recently awarded the International Award for Public Art for the Tiuna el Fuerte Cultural Park project in Caracas, Venezuela, Haeik Coll uses art, applied sciences and local intelligence to explore the role of public art and architecture in place-making. His lecture Public machinery will focus on the aspects of his practice that generate architecture as an outcome of engagement within local communities. He describes his practice as one of slow architecture because of its process of engagement.
- Geographer Ngarimu Blair has 15 years experience in advancing a range of iwi issues in Auckland. His lecture From Maungakiekie Pa to Kupe Street discusses Ngati Whatua Orakeis plans to assist its people into home ownership. Overcoming significant socio-economic, planning and financing barriers they hope to create a modern pa at Orakei, one of Aucklands most affluent suburbs. Blair is a Treaty settlement negotiator for Ngati Whatua. He is heavily involved in Ngati Whatuas innovative tribal housing projects. He is also a trustee on the Ngati Whatua Orakei Trust, a Director on Waterfront Auckland, Ngati Whatua Orakei Whai Rawa Ltd and Nga Tira Ltd.
- Ann Dupuis and Penny Lysnars lecture Housing choice: The human dimension looks at housing choices and constraints. The notion of greater housing choice is firmly embedded in urban intensification planning and policies. In Auckland it is claimed that apartment buildings and terrace houses offer greater housing choice. However, what is often overlooked in this rendition of housing choice are the people who are making choices to live in intensive environments and the extent to which their choices are exercised within sets of constraints. Dupuis and Lysnar will discuss the human dimension of choice making, and explore the constraints and trade-offs that lie behind housing decisions. Ann Dupuis is Associate Professor of Sociology at the School of People, Environment and Planning, and Regional Director at the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, at Massey University. Dr Penny Lysnar is Business Liaison and Research Development Manager in the Transforming Cities team at the University of Auckland.
- Scott Figenshows lecture Achieving 20 percent by 2020: How is it going to happen? explores the reform of social and affordable housing in New Zealand. The Government has set the goal for 20 percent of the countrys social and affordable housing to be delivered by community housing organisations by 2020. This is a great goal but how are we going to get there? What are the policy levers we need to pull? Where will the finance come from? How will social and community housing achieve the kind of long-term stability that currently exists in the health, education, and superannuation systems? Figenshow will address these questions and offer some possible answers. Scott Figenshow is Director of Community Housing Aotearoa and has extensive experience in the field of community housing across non-profit, government and the private sector.
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The Architectural Services industry has endured a tough five years due to a prolonged downturn in the construction market. Over the period, the winding back of educational building investment and weak housing construction has led to subdued demand for industry services. Revenue is estimated to rise by an annualised 0.4% over the five years through 2013-14, corresponding with a slump in the value of total building construction. The key building markets for architectural services have displayed divergent trends over the past five years. In the non-residential building market, the value of institutional building has benefited from the injection of federal funding for school refurbishment under the Building the Education Revolution program. In contrast, the value of commercial and industrial building is expected to fall because of slower economic growth and the global financial crisis. Architects have faced subdued conditions in the new housing market, with the value of construction remaining flat over the past five years. Declining investment trends in the traditional single-unit housing market has offset growth in the townhouse and apartment design market. In 2013-14, the industry is forecast to generate revenue of $6.4 billion, rising 2.1% on the previous year. Rising housing investment is expected in the single and multi-unit sectors, due to record low interest rates and an expected recovery in economic growth.
The industry has been facing growing competition from vertically integrated firms in the building construction and engineering consultancy industries over the past five years. IBISWorld industry analyst Sebastian Chia states clients are growing towards more integrated service offerings, and architecture firms have to improve links with construction firms or even offer their own range of services to compete. This is difficult due to the nature of the industry, which has a fragmented structure with few large-scale national players and many small-scale firms that operate in narrow regional markets. These trends are forecast to grow over the next five years. According to Chia, despite growing competition, demand conditions are forecast to strengthen over the next five years due to improved investment in the commercial and residential building markets.
The Architectural Services industry has a low concentration of ownership. It has a fragmented structure with few large-scale national players, a larger number of state or regionally based firms (influenced by the requirement for individual state registration procedures), and many small-scale firms and sole practitioners operating in narrow regional markets. For more information, visit IBISWorlds Architectural Services report in Australia industry page.
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FRANKSTOWN, Pa.Mike Woodling of Williamsburg is willing to put his artistic touch on almost anything from a painted wheelbarrow to a motorcycle.
But Woodling's legacy will likely remain on the walls of local structures, like the Frankstown Municipal Building.
"He did a wonderful job," Frankstown Township Secretary Beverly Henderson said about the mural Woodling painted at the front of the building's meeting room. The artwork was part of a remodeling project the township completed last year that updated the former school, which also serves as a voting precinct.
The focus of the mural is a rendering of the red-brick building, as it might have looked in the 1930s and 1940s when the structure was the community's two-room school. The mural also includes renderings of the veterans memorial that stands at the corner of Frankstown Road and Route 22 and the Korean War memorial that is part of the township's park in Geeseytown.
"I think that entire mural is absolutely beautiful," said Ronald McCleary, a Korean War veteran who spearheaded the effort to build the Korean War Memorial in 2011. Seeing that memorial included in the mural, he said, was amazing.
"I never even dreamed of something like that," McCleary said.
Woodling said he is proud of how the mural turned out and the reaction.
"I started with about three or four old photos of the grade school, then someone loaned me a photo album," Woodling said.
"Then, some people who remembered the old school came in and told me about a fence in front of it so I put that in. They couldn't remember if the had two or three rails, but they did remember how they had to go around the fence to get into the school."
Blanche Weyant of Scotch Valley Road was one of the people who provided photos and looked for photos to help Woodling. Weyant, 81, was a student at that school in the mid-1940s, along with her siblings.
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March 3, 2014 - Pacific Coast League (PCL) Oklahoma City RedHawks OKLAHOMA CITY - The Oklahoma City RedHawks have announced the schedule for the fourth annual Majestic Roofing High School Baseball Series, set to begin this week at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark.
The series begins with three games Saturday, March 8 and will culminate Saturday, April 5 during the Mayor's Cup, featuring a triple-header between the three high schools from Edmond and Moore.
The Majestic Roofing High School Baseball Series gives teams and their fans from around the state a chance to have a "professional" experience complete with the use of batting cages, dugouts, and state-of-the-art scoreboards.
"This is one of the biggest highlights during most of these players' high school careers, and we're happy to help create those memories along with our partners at Majestic Roofing," RedHawks President/General Manager Michael Byrnes said.
All games during the Majestic Roofing High School Baseball Series are free to the public, and select games will be broadcast on 1340thegame.com and through the iHeartRadio mobile app.
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For more information on the Majestic Roofing High School Baseball Series or 2014 RedHawks ticket packages and group outings, call (405) 218-1000 or visit okcredhawks.com.
2014 MAJESTIC ROOFING HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL SERIES SCHEDULE
Saturday, March 8: Putnam City West vs. Northwest Classen 11 a.m.
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