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Cooper Lighting, a division of diversified power management company Eaton, is pleased to announce that it has been named the preferred brand of choice in the Lighting: Interior/Exterior category in Architect magazines 2013 Brand Use Study. The magazine is the official publication of the members of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). Surveyed Architect readers named Cooper Lighting as a brand leader in Brand Familiarity, Brands Specified/Used in the Past Two Years, and Brand Specified/Used the Most.

We are constantly working to understand our customers business goals and to develop the most innovative and reliable products that meet and satisfy their needs, says Mark Eubanks, president, Cooper Lighting Division. We are honored that our continued efforts are being recognized by the architectural community.

The 2012 Brand Use Study, sponsored by Hanley Wood, LLC, publisher of Architect, and conducted by the independent research company Readex Research, provides an in-depth look at the product brands used by Architect readers. Specifically, the study researches respondents familiarity with, use of and opinions about 593 brands in 45 product categories.

Readers were asked, with respect to the Lighting: Interior/Exterior category:

1. Which brands have you heard of?

2. Which brands have you specified / used in the last two years?

3. Which brands do you specify / use most often?

With respect to brand familiarity, Cooper Lighting was mentioned by 78 percent of all respondents as high or higher than any other lighting manufacturer. Cooper Lighting was also listed by architects as the number one most frequently specified/used brand in the last two years. In addition, Cooper Lighting was named as one of the two brands specified/used most often among all lighting manufacturers. Cooper Lighting received more first place rankings than any other lighting manufacturer.

Cooper Lighting continues to make significant investments to empower its customers with the innovations, technology, and resources needed to meet the challenges of the future. Cooper Lighting delivers a wide range of innovative and reliable lighting, light-emitting diode (LED) and controls solutions, all specifically designed to maximize performance, energy efficiency and cost savings. For additional information, visit http://www.cooperlighting.com.

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We write about architecture as being dynamic, interactive, or even animated, but its not really true. All buildings are static, incapable of propelling themselves to spontaneous movement. Architects work around this fact by applying fluttery metal screens or sculptural, undulating balconies to the sides of buildings--to give them the illusion of motion. Add-ons such as these may produce formal and sometimes experiential effects, but they have no structural function.

Swedish architects Belatchew Arkitekter are unsatisfied with this approach. Their conceptual design for a Strawscraper cloaks an existing residential tower in plastic appendages, or hairs, that capture wind and use it to produce electricity for the building. Yes, the hairs are add-ons, but they significantly augment the towers core performance.

The project is part of an extension to Sder Torn, one of the tallest housing high-rises in Stockholm. The tower, designed by celebrated architects Henning Larsen, was completed in 1997, following a dramatic episode between the client and architect. The latter quit the project after the client eliminated 16 of the original 40 stories specified in the building plans. Belatchews Strawscraper scheme restores Larsens vision and grafts the unbuilt floors onto the landmark tower, while also adding a new restaurant and observation deck.

But the Strawscraper goes further, promising to transform the Sder Torn into a large-scale urban wind farm. The architects say theyll do this by fixing movable straws (made from composite material with piezoelectric properties) to the towers exterior: [The] large number of thin straws can produce electricity merely through small movements generated by the wind, while creating very little noise, Belatchew principal Rahel Belatchew Lerdell tells Co. Design. The field of straws also looks aesthetically striking, akin to wheat swaying in the wind. It, along with the proposals sustainable aspirations, will endow the static building with new dimensions, Lerdell says.

Architecture must deliver solutions to contemporary problems or issues, the architect underscores. Naturally, the firm believes the Strawscraper participates in this endeavor. The surplus electricity, they envision, will be used toward producing what the building needs to become positive net energy.

Sammy is a writer, designer, and ice cream maker based in New York. He once lived in China before being an editor at Architizer. Continued

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It happened near Tatum and Cave Creek, as the roofers worked on a home. Even worse, the crew had only one ladder to make their escape.

"We were over here working," explains Gary Watson of Hayes Roofing. "My guys called me and said there were some bees, so we got some soapy water and started spraying them, and they attacked us. They attacked all five of us."

Watson says spraying the bees just made them angrier. And his employees were right in their line of attack.

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