Interview Sam Carter, Architects - La Maroquinerie, 2014 (vostfr)

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Richard Gage: Architects Engineers for 9/11 Truth
Richard Gage: Architects Engineers for 9/11 Truth at the United We Stand Festival in Los Angeles, CA on May 10. 2014.

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Boy rescued from dog attack praises cat: 'She's a hero!' Boy rescued from dog attack praises cat: 'She's a hero!'

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A California family has nothing but praise for the pet that came to their son's rescue.

A California family has nothing but praise for the pet that came to their son's rescue.

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When Dow Boyer was caught skimming money from her employer, the crime led to a chain of events that has left the wife and mother battling to stay in the country.

When Dow Boyer was caught skimming money from her employer, the crime led to a chain of events that has left the wife and mother battling to stay in the country.

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Type the words "arm falls asleep when cuddling" into Google and you may be shocked at the results. More than two million hits explaining and offering solutions to this age-old problem. And there's actually

A Portland-area designer is offering a new solution for those who love the art of spooning, but hate when their arm falls asleep.

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May 14, 2014 - Intended for architects and designers, ArchiCAD 18 includes CineRender CINEMA 4D render engine by MAXON Computer, providing photorealistic rendering capabilities. Fast preview and background processor support make rendering workflow smooth and uninterrupted. With seamless file export from ArchiCAD 18 to CINEMA 4D, users can optimize projects with high-end animation and visualization techniques. Revision Management function tracks and automatically documents changes to building model. Graphisoft 235 Kansas St., Suite 200 San Francisco, CA, 94103 USA Press release date: May 6, 2014

BUDAPEST, Hungary, GRAPHISOFT announced today the latest version of its industry-leading BIM software solution for architects and designers. ArchiCAD 18 delivers innovations making the BIM workflow smoother, including CineRender, a brand new render engine with high-end photorealistic rendering capabilities found only in the professional visualization application CINEMA 4D - now available right inside the BIM tool.

"BIM innovation has been shifting from adding new features to introducing innovative new workflows -- this is exactly what ArchiCAD 18 offers end-users," said Laszlo Vertesi, Vice President of Product Development at GRAPHISOFT. "With ArchiCAD 18, we pinpointed the most important user requests related to workflow issues with the clear goal of providing our users with solutions that keep them in the creative design flow with as little disruption as possible."

"We are delighted that GRAPHISOFT has decided to integrate CineRender into ArchiCAD 18 - offering a bridge to CINEMA 4D for users who wish to add even more sophisticated graphics and animations to their projects," said Harald Egel, Managing Partner and CEO of MAXON.

About ArchiCAD 18 Built-in CineRender, the CINEMA 4D render engine by MAXON Computer - High-quality, photorealistic renderings are still the most important client communication tool for architects. The integration of CineRender, MAXON's world-class CINEMA 4D rendering engine into ArchiCAD 18, brings this capability closer to a much wider range of users. One-button "photo-shot" rendering can be used to easily produce convincing, high-quality results, as with tweaking numerous sliders and parameters - allowing both novice and professional users to complete the rendering job right inside the BIM application. Fast preview and background processor support make the rendering workflow a smooth and uninterrupted process. The seamless file export from ArchiCAD 18 to CINEMA 4D enables users to enhance their projects with high-end animation and visualization techniques and benefit from decreased render times thanks to the highly-efficient distributed rendering solution in CINEMA 4D.

Integrated Revision Management workflows -- Data exchange with clients, consultants and the authorities puts the legal burden on architects and designers. ArchiCAD 18 tracks and automatically documents changes to the building model so questions about responsibility won't be an issue later on. ArchiCAD 18's brand new Revision Management solution is integrated into the entire BIM workflow, providing solutions for 2D, 3D or any kind of hybrid workflows.

Improved PDF-based data exchange -- PDF has become one of the worldwide drawing standards people use for multiple tasks. By introducing BIM-related intelligence and data hierarchies into PDF files, ArchiCAD 18 offers PDF-based smooth workflows for a wide range of stakeholders in the AEC process.

OPEN BIM and IFC-based workflow improvements - ArchiCAD 18 continues to deliver several IFC-related improvements, including professional scheme-driven data management and data mapping and high-quality (certified) export processes. In addition, to support highly iterative coordination with engineers and consultants, ArchiCAD 18 introduces full BCF support. The BIM Collaboration Format (BCF) is an open file format that allows the addition of textual comments and screenshots on top of the IFC model layer for better communication between the coordinating parties. ArchiCAD 18 integrates BCF information natively into the BIM model in the form of ArchiCAD Mark-Up entries. As a result, ArchiCAD joins major BIM applications (including model checker, structural and MEP engineering software) that support the BCF format.

GRAPHISOFT BIMcloud Integration - The true potential of BIM is best realized through a team effort with several contributors collaborating on the same BIM data. With its full integration with the GRAPHISOFT BIMcloud, ArchiCAD 18 offers industry-first, real-time BIM collaboration regardless of the size, location or setup of the collaborating team. Cloud integration allows the ArchiCAD team to soar without limits. Learn more about GRAPHISOFT's BIMcloud Solution here: http://www.graphisoft.com/bimcloud/

Workflow enhancements -- In addition to introducing brand new innovative workflows, ArchiCAD 18 also unveils substantial enhancements to its existing workflows as well, proving that listening to customers is of primary importance when assigning development resources at GRAPHISOFT.

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Interview with Sam Carter of Architects
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Amazing video of Air Luminarium part 3/3
Amazing video of Air Luminarium part 3/3 Architects of Air: Luminarium in prague, May 2014 A video introduction to the world of Architects of Air #39;s luminaria Architects of Air-Luminarium Exhibit...

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Zoltan Pali, one of the architects hired to work on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' future museum, has left the high-profile project.

The departure, which the academy is characterizing as a routine transition, comes in the midst of some critiques of primary architect Renzo Piano's design, in particular a spherical theater at the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue that Piano calls "the spaceship."

Pali, of the Culver City firm Studio Pali Fekete Architects, did not return calls for comment Monday. He had been working with Piano at the former May Co. building on the Los Angeles County Museum of Art campus, where the academy is scheduled to break ground on its $300-million, 290,000-square-foot museum later this year, with a planned opening in 2017.

As the project shifts from the design to the construction phase, the academy has decided to hire a local executive architecture firm to carry out Piano's design, said Bill Kramer, managing director, academy museum and external relations.

"It was simply a decision based on the timing of the project and a desire to bring in a specialist to do this work," Kramer said Monday.

The academy will name the L.A. architecture firm in the coming days, after contracts are signed, Kramer said.

In April the academy named Kerry Brougher, who spent 14 years as a curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, as director of the museum, which will include galleries, movie theaters and education space devoted to the art of cinema.

Pali, who recently transformed the Beverly Hills Post Office into the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, was already working on a renovation of the 1939 May Co. building when the academy decided in 2012 to place its long-discussed movie museum there and bring on Piano, a winner of the Pritzker Prize, architecture's highest honor.

Piano and Pali would seem to have been an ideal partnership. Pali was such a fan of Piano's work, he named a son after him.

But last week the Architect's Newspaper reported rumors that Pali was being quietly removed from the project, and over the weekend, the Hollywood Reporter said the two architects had clashed.

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Architects - FULL SET @Ottobar Baltimore, MD 5/6/2014
Architects live at Ottobar Baltimore, Maryland on 5/6/2014.

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For years, Catasauqua officials have debated what to do about 13, unused riverfront acres in the heart of their downtown.

On Monday night, they took a step toward turning it into one of township's biggest industrial and commercial developments in a half century.

Spillman Farmer Architects presented borough officials and local residents with their early visions for the former F.L. Smidth site the municipality bought in 2013.

Two different versions have taken shape, both of which would transform the four-block-long defunct manufacturer into upscale apartments, townhouses and boutiques. The borough will use these diagrams and wish lists to develop a master plan, which will help them craft the right zoning laws and policies to woo developers into the site.

But the piece borough officials talked about most, the part some have been dreaming of for 40 years, are new homes for the fire and police departments and municipal offices.

That's why Catasauqua finally opted to buy the land after years of debate. F.L. Smidth bought the property, which was once the Crane Ironworks in 2001. When it closed up its manufacturing shop in 2005, 70 people worked there.

By then, Catasauqua emergency officials had been operating out of aging inadequate facilities for decades. Sites were earmarked to build new facilities and later scrapped. Meanwhile, strapped for space, police park their bicycles in jail cells and firefighters make due with aging infrastructure.

Spillman would put brand new offices in the northern Pine Street bridge side of a new development park they're calling The Ironworks.

Elliot Nolter, a Catasauqua Area High School graduate and a Spillman architect working on a master plan, created a development plan albeit a different one for the defunct factory as part of a school project at Penn State University.

Nolter favors embracing the site's industrial past. Plans call for creating a central park area that incorporates old railroad trestles the factory once used.

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