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A user-submitted petition has gone up on the White House website that calls for the chief architects of Chinas censorious Great Firewall to be denied entry to the US. If the petition reaches 95,160 signatures by February 23rd, then the White House will, under this new suggestions scheme open to US residents, be obliged to comment and perhaps take action. So far, this appeal to block the GFW builders from US soil has garnered 4,840 signees.

The petition comes with a link to a list of three individuals who were instrumental in Chinas complex system of web censorship. Top of the list is Fang Bingxing, who is thought to have begun work on the GFW at the behest of authorities in 2000. Initially only blocking smaller dissident websites, the web filtering system was taking down major sites like YouTube by 2007. In 2011, Fang, a PhD in computer science, was the victim of a George Bush-style shoe attack that, according to the pranksters involved, was on target.

In full, the petition reads:

People work on information technology always need to communicate and exchange knowledges between countries. If some of them use their skills and technology for blocking people to use internet for certain governments, all the other countries should boycott such behavior.

If they apply to enter US, for example to attendant technology conference, as a responsible government has always valued freedom, it reasonable to deny it.

The list of GFW suspects is up on Gitgub, the social coding site that was briefly blocked by the GFW last week, only to be mysteriously made accessible again a few days later.

Do you think the petition is a valid idea? Let us know in the comments.

(Hat-tip to @majunspace for spotting this on Twitter)

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White House Petition Calls for Architects of China's Great Firewall be Denied Entry to the US

NEW YORK Sam Neuman jokes that he doesnt casually throw off his coat when he gets home at night it would take up half his apartment.

Such is life in his walk-up studio a few blocks from Manhattans bustling Times Square. At 280 square feet, the apartment is barely the size of a one-car garage, with just enough space for a bed, a desk, a TV stand on one wall and a kitchen against the other.

Ive developed this weird Stockholm syndrome, which you identify with your captors, said the 31-year-old publicist. When I go to other peoples apartments, I think, Why do they need more than one bedroom? Im really very happy here. Theres not really time to let things accumulate because ... where would I put them?

The Big Apple is legendary for its legions of residents who live in really, really small apartments. Many of them are fiercely proud of it and can even find the humor in their cramped quarters. Now the city is about to see just how small New Yorkers are willing to go.

With the population and rents expected to keep climbing, city planners are challenging architects to design ways to make it tolerable even comfortable to live in as small as 250 square feet.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Tuesday announced the winner of a competition to incorporate those designs into an apartment complex to be built on Manhattans east side next year featuring 55 micro units.

To make up for the shoebox dimensions, the building will offer residents common spaces like a rooftop garden and lounge area on nearly every floor. The aim is to offer more such tiny apartments throughout the city as affordable options for the young singles, cash-poor and empty nesters who are increasingly edged out of the nations most expensive real-estate market.

If the pilot program is successful, New York could ultimately overturn a requirement established in 1987 that all new apartments be at least 400 square feet.

Smaller living is already endorsed by some cities. San Francisco has approved construction of apartments as small as 220 square feet. Tokyo and Hong Kong have long had tiny units.

As a way to get New Yorkers to think small, a new Museum of the City of New York exhibit features a fully furnished, 325-square-foot studio that incorporates the latest space-saving designs. Theres the bed that folds out over a couch, a padded ottoman containing four nesting chairs, a foldout dinette table tucked under the kitchen counter and a TV that slides away to reveal a bar.

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The New York based design team at CODA has won this years Young Architects Program (YAP) prize awarded by the Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1. CODA's Caroline ODonnell submitted the winning Party Wall proposal a freestanding pavilion and "flexible experimental space" which uses water filled fabric containers for ballast and is clad in off-cuts from the manufacture of skateboards.

The competition brief challenged emerging architectural talent to develop "creative designs for a temporary, outdoor installation at MoMA PS1 that provides shade, seating, and water." Environmental issues such as sustainability and recycling must also be considered in the designs.

The Party Wall installation will provide shifting shaded areas for music enthusiasts by using a vertical steel structure in contrast to traditional horizontal shading. The freestanding structure that will be ballasted by water bladders suspended on the inside. These bladders are called pillows which will be filled on site and lit up at night to give the entire structure a luminous glow.

The frame will be clad using manufacturing off-cuts from eco-friendly, Ithaca-based skateboard manufacturer Comet. Dubbed "bones," these off-cuts will be woven together to form an imperfect and porous facade.

A shallow stage of reclaimed wood will be featured around the base of the wall, whilst 120 panels can be detached from the vertical structure to form benches and tables that can used for various scenarios: "not only the pool party, the dance party and some architectural tourists, it can also accommodate lectures, classes, discussions, dining, performances, film screenings and even, perhaps, a wedding," says CODA.

The wall spells out its function as part of its design when viewed from the outside, but the interior will serve as an aqueduct for the MOMA PS1 visitors. Water ducted via the third floor of the PS1 building will replenish a series of pools and cooling stations through a gravity-operated system. A stream of water will flow along the top of the wall and be projected out into a fountain that feeds the pools and a misting station using a pressure-tank. Like the movable benches and tables from the Party Wall skin, the pools can be adapted and covered according to function.

Located in Long Island City, MOMA PS1 has been hosting a YAP installation at in its courtyard for fourteen years. The latest offering is set to open in late June and will feature as part of the temporary urban landscape for the 2013 Warm Up music series.

The other finalists for this years MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program were: Leong Architects (New York, NY, Dominic Leong, Chris Leong); Moorhead & Moorhead (New York, NY, Granger Moorhead, Robert Moorehead); TempAgency (Charlottesville, VA, and Brooklyn, NY, Leena Cho, Rychlee Espinosa, Matthew Jull, Seth McDowell); and French 2D (Boston, MA, and Syracuse, NY, Anda French, Jenny French).

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Architects of the Future-TEDxYouth@SanDiego -Cause/Action: Sonia Rhodes at TEDxSanDiego 2012
"We are called to be dreamers, thinkers, change makers," declares Sonia Rhodes as she recaps "Architects of the Future," the TEDxYouth@SanDiego 2012 event she founded which involved 400 students from 25 high schools in the region. The high-energy, highly experiential event culminated in each participant displaying on a "key" a hope, dream, or big idea inspired by the day. In thespirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

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Laced, stitched and tightly knit, separate but intertwined metallic paths create a seamless faade upon the James B. Hunt Jr. Library.

Answering what role a library holds in the 21st Century, architectural firms Snhetta and PBC&Ls vision has come to fruition five years after its conception.

With textiles, engineering and multi-discipline collaboration in mind, Hunt was designed not around other structures, but around student betterment, said Shann Rushing, PBC&L associate architect for the library.

[Libraries] have been first and foremost a depository for books, Rushing said. Secondarily, it has been a place to access those books and to read and study.

The idea of the library of the 21st century is sort of the antithesis of that, Rushing said.

Given the chance to design a library of the modern age, Rushing said that he and fellow architects followed a vision of collaboration and socialization, quick to break the keep quiet stereotype.

It is an educational environment but also a social environment, Rushing said.

The team drew architects from Snhetta of Norway and New York who won the original bid, and PBC&L, a Raleigh firm given the title of executive architects.

Nic Rader, Snhetta architect and senior designer for Hunt, described the collaboration as smooth, sharing a vision with PBC&L.

It was really an unprecedented experience in work methodology for us, Rader said.

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SAN (Soohee Lee Architects Network) Projects 2009-2012
Soohee Lee, President of SAN, explaining her architectural inspiration, projects and philosophy

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The ABC of Architects
This work is an alphabetical list of the most important architects with their best known building. A lot of them have been left out with grief because we only need one for each letter and we done an effort to have differents nationalities. If you love architecture, for more stuff you can follow us in ombuarchitecture.tumblr.com Concept and Animation: Andrea Stinga, Federico Gonzalez Art Direction: Federico Gonzalez Music: The Butterfly from Eugene C.Rose and George Ruble, (Creative Commons) you can download it here: vimeo.com/musicstore/track/10358 fedelpeye.tv Here is the alphabetical list We hope you enjoy it. Alvar AAlto _ Syntsalo Town hall - Finland Luis Barragn _ satellite towers - Mexico city Santiago Calatrava _ Lyon - Satolas airport railway station - lyon France Lus Domnech i Montaner _ Antoni Tpies foundation - Barcelona Eduardo Souto de Moura _ Paula Rego #39;s House of Stories _ Cascais _ portugal Norman Foster_ London City Hall _ England frank Gehry _ Guggenheim bilbao _ Spain herzog de meuron _ Beijing National Stadium _ CHina Arata Isozaki _ Palau Sant Jordi _ barcelona Philip Johnson _ The Glass House _ New Canaan _ United state Louis Kahn _ National Parliament of Bangladesh _ Dhaka city le corbusier _ Villa Savoye _ Poissy, Francia Ludwig Mies van der Rohe _ barcelona pavilion _ Spain oscar niemeyer _ National Congress of Brazil, Braslia Joseph Maria Olbrich _ Secession building, vienna - Austria Csar Pelli _ Petronas Twin Tower _ Kuala Lumpur ...

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Architects of Air- Exxopolis
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